Russell & Corinna:
Thank you both for great discussions and links to stuff that keep me thinking. I'm not always sure what is meant by trauma-informed when it's used. It's sort of everywhere and I appreciate the intent of many people and organizations using it but am not always clear when it's clinical, a buzz word or signals a real change in approach, communication, collaboration and community.
I don't mean to sound so critical. I think some of this is what happens when there's big changes away from one model (say, the medical model or the prevention only model). But I hope to learn more about what didn't work in older working models and change those things so we're not only using new words but doing things mostly the same individually and organizationally. Cis