Encore CULTURE & COMPLEXITY: THE CHALLENGES OF COMPLEXITY
May 15, 2024
Hosted by Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
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Episode Description
In the first segment, Dr. Bloom and Ms. Yanosy will discuss the importance of appreciating “complexity” and how culture, in all its forms, inevitably increases the complexity of every group, organization, and community. It is the unconscious dynamics in a complex system that often confound those in a position to take action toward social health. So, in this segment the hosts will look at some of those unconscious group dynamics and offer tools for managing it. In the second and third segments, the hosts will talk with Dr. Robert Anda, who played the principal role in the design of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs) and served as its Co-Principal Investigator, and Dr. Laura Porter, who together have created ACE Interface bringing together over two decades of experience in helping leaders to develop and disseminate educational products and empowerment strategies that help communities throughout the nation to dramatically improve population health. In this capacity, they have become thought partners, educators, consultants, and coaches in over two dozen states and they will share their findings about this important work.
Creating Presence with Dr Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
Wednesdays at 9 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel
The Creating Presence Show with Dr. Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy investigates the interconnection between our individual experiences and troubling social landscapes, considering the destructive impact on our collective health. Using the lens of public health science and their own experience as mental health providers and educators, these two thought leaders in trauma-responsive practice examine some of our most pressing social problems and begin to pave a path towards a healthier future. These discussions underscore our crucial need as a species to change the paradigm for how we think about who we are and our responsibility to each other and the planet.
Sandra Bloom and Sarah Yanosy
Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and currently Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, where she teaches five courses focused on the impact of psychological trauma on individuals and organizations. From 1980-2001, Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders and during those years was also President of the Alliance for Creative Development, a multidisciplinary outpatient practice group. Dr. Bloom is recognized nationally and internationally as the founder of the Sanctuary Model. Between 2005 and 2016 over 350 social service, juvenile justice and mental health organizations were trained in the Sanctuary Model. In extending her work to include an online delivery program for Leaders, Clinicians, Direct Service Staff, and Indirect Service Staff called Creating Presence, Dr. Bloom hopes to make the innovative approach to service delivery known as “trauma-informed” and “trauma-responsive” more available and cost effective. Dr. Bloom is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and 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, 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.
Ms. Yanosy’s career has integrated clinical work, education and administration, resulting in expertise in individual and family therapy, program and curriculum development as well as program evaluation and replication. Ms. Yanosy currently teaches at the Fordham University School of Social Services and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She served as the Founding Director of an international training and consultation organization serving over 350 organizations across the US and in 7 other countries, teaching human service providers to implement trauma-informed interventions. Most recently, Ms. Yanosy co-developed the PRESENCE Model, an online training model for trauma responsive practice. Ms. Yanosy has been a keynote and featured speaker on trauma and organizational culture and has published extensively on the implementation and impact of trauma responsive practice. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Cornell University and Smith College respectively, and has completed post graduate programs at New York University, Fordham University and Columbia Business School.
