2015 Conference on Trauma: Prevention-Intervention-Recovery
Designing, Creating and Facilitating a recovery environment. We make it happen with you.
2015 Team Members
Saundra Robinson, Carlyn Clark, Allen Sweatt, CiCi Spenser, Esther Ford, Iden Campbell.
The Campbell Center
The Campbell Center is a peer-run agency for individuals living with mental health challenges. We seek social change on an individual level by supporting wellness and recovery, training in leadership and micro-enterprise, and fostering community engagement.
The Conference
On May 17, 2013 at Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Washington, D.C., the Historic 2013 Conference on Trauma: “Addressing Trauma Informed Care from the Consumer Perspective” inaugural event will bring persons with lived experience in justice, mental health, substance abuse, foster care and other behavioral health together with healthcare and community stakeholders and professionals. In a single forum we will collectively address the critical importance of issues impacting trauma, prevention, community behavioral health and the creation of a trauma informed system of care. The event provides an opportunity to network as well as receive information on emerging topics relevant to trauma, health, alternatives to traditional treatment, and wellness.
What is Trauma?
Trauma is the experience of violence and victimization including sexual abuse, physical abuse, severe neglect, loss, domestic violence and/or the witnessing of violence, terrorism or disasters.
(NASMHPD 2006)
What Does Trauma Do to a Person?
It involves a person’s response which includes intense fear, horror and helplessness. It also involves extreme stress that overwhelms the person’s capacity to cope.
(DSM 1V-TR APA, 2000)
Why a Peer Led Conference?
“During every incarceration, every institutionalization, every court-ordered drug treatment program, it was always the same: I was always treated like a hopeless case. All people could see was the way I looked or the way I smelled. It wasn’t until I finally entered a recovery-oriented, trauma-informed treatment program a little more than four years ago, where I felt safe and respected, that I could begin to heal…Someone finally asked me ‘What happened to you?’ instead of ‘What’s wrong with you?’”
Tonier Cain
Hot Topic
RECOVERY
