Community engagement is a wonderful thing, especially when it creates a new avenue to provide intervention and prevention methods that can reduce the impact of childhood trauma, or for that matter, prevent the trauma itself.
Trauma-informed care has become a movement of sorts in the Johnson City area, and with a newly created position at Niswonger Children’s Hospital, there is potential for that system of care to impact the huge healthcare footprint now occupied by Ballad Health.
@Becky Haas, who learned about trauma-informed care during the time she administered a police department crime-reduction grant program — Targeted Community Crime Prevention — and Dr. Andi Clements, an East Tennessee State University psychology professor and researcher, discovered how childhood adversity can affect a person’s life and their choices.
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