Agreed, that is why my advocacy efforts are focusing on the public, not the hospital system at this point. I am meeting with Church leaders and giving them 1-2 books depending on the audience, Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (an author local to Maryland), and Bessel Vander Kolk's book. I have also met with my local YMCA asking that their coaches go through Trauma Informed training such as through up2us.org. I have met with the continuing education department at my community college who are very interested, I just need to find someone Masters Degree or above to teach. I would like them to teach a trauma/sports session in addition to one for health care workers. I am also meeting with the Provost of a local Arts/ Theater college asking that they consider adding a Trauma Drama degree NADTA.org . I am asking one of our State Delegates to help facilitate recognition of the Drama Therapist Certification.
I have met with two people from the Population Health community who were really not very interested. They like 'Big Data' efforts and to know how to get money. My thought is that depending on the formal health care system to bring up the solutions for resilience is much like the Wikipedia vs. Microsofts Encarta venture. The product that flourished in the end was the one that the community of users contributed to freely out of internal motivations that were out of the domain of the economy. Trauma informed care, Resilience, Sanctuary develop out of an endorphin reward system generated by contributing to the good of the community, the dollar is less relevant (though we do need trained professionals to educate us).