In this presentation, Dr. Sandra Bloom, creator of the Sanctuary Model, will describe her latest work in viewing organizations as living systems – biocracies - and designing a coherent framework – Creating Presence – that enables organizational members at every level to focus on trauma-responsive organizational health.

Three learning objectives:
• Participants will be able to define what a trauma-informed system looks like
• Participants will be able to define what a biocratic system is and why it matters
• Participants will be able to define a trauma-responsive value-based system for
organizations


Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, and currently Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Dr. Bloom is recognized nationally and internationally as the founder of the Sanctuary Model. Dr. Bloom author or co-author of a series of books on trauma-informed care: Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies published in 1997 with a second edition in 2013; Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility in 1998; Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Delivery Service Systems published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care, also published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She is a founder of and immediate past-president of a new national organization, CTIPP – The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice whose goal is to advocate for public policies and programs at the federal, state, local and tribal levels that incorporate up-to-date scientific findings regarding the relationship between trauma across the lifespan and many social and health problems.