On Friday, November 20th, 2015 the Marriage and Family Therapy department hosted an introductory workshop for social service practitioners, teachers, nurses, physicians, police, juvenile justice workers, marriage and family therapists, social workers, mental health counselors, and child specialists who work in high-violence, traumatized neighborhoods in the Syracuse area.
This workshop served as the introductory module of a multiple-phase training program in trauma-informed practice. Speakers included:
- Linda Stone Fish, M.S.W., Ph.D., Falk Family Endowed Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University, and co-author with Mary Jo Barrett, of the book Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration and Change.
- Street Addictions Institute, Inc.’s Timothy ‘Noble’ Jennings-Bey, founding director of the Trauma Response Team, and Arnett Haygood-El.
- Sandra D. Lane, Ph.D., MPH, Falk College Public Health Professor at Syracuse University, founding director of Syracuse Healthy Start, and developed the CARE (Community Action Research and Education) model currently being used for her project on neighborhood trauma and gun violence.
- Local psychologists Bill Cross, Ph.D., Master Trainer and Consultant, Trauma Resource Institute, and Ron Fish, Ph.D., Clinical Director of Psychological HealthCare, who specialize in the Trauma Resiliency Model.