SANCTUARY MODEL
PROVIDING SAFETY, LOVE AND HOPE FOR ABUSED CHILDREN THROUGH A TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH
The Sanctuary Model is a Trauma-Informed Care model and is an innovative, evidence-based model that addresses the health and well-being of abused, neglected, and/or abandoned children and caregivers, including staff and volunteers.
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HIBISCUS RECEIVED SANCTUARY MODEL RECERTIFICATION IN 2023
The Sanctuary Model is a trauma-informed care model that supports children and young people to heal from trauma, loss and adversity. It is also a workplace culture-change program that teaches people how to cope more effectively with adversity and stress. The model is based on understanding trauma and its impact on people and organizations and on creating a nonviolent, democratic, productive community.
It requires a system to make a paradigm shift from asking, “What is wrong with this person?” to “What has happened to this person?” The Sanctuary Model has helped our agency reduce trauma symptoms in our clients, higher productivity of staff through motivation, engagement and satisfaction of services, and has lowered staff turnover.
Hibiscus Children’s Center has implemented The Sanctuary Model throughout its entire organization and all staff are trained.
“Using the Sanctuary Model not only helps us to understand and care for our clients in a trauma informed and responsive way, but also uses the same supportive practices for our staff and organization.” – Robin Dankyi, LMHC, Sanctuary Training Specialist
The Sanctuary Model & Therapeutic Crisis Intervention
Creates a collaborative treatment environment | Works more effectively and therapeutically with traumatized clients | Builds high-functioning multi-disciplinary teams | Improves staff morale | Increases employee retention
The 7 Sanctuary Commitments
(Created by Sandra L. Bloom, M.D. and the Sanctuary Institute)
- Commitment to Nonviolence – helping to build safety skills and a commitment to higher purpose.
- Commitment to Emotional Intelligence – helping to teach emotional management skills.
- Commitment to Social Learning – helping to build cognitive skills.
- Commitment to Open Communication – helping to overcoming barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management, reduce acting-out, enhance self-protective and self-correcting skills, teach healthy boundaries.
- Commitment to Democracy – helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.
- Commitment to Social Responsibility – helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships, establish sense of fair play and justice.
- Commitment to Growth and Change – helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.
If you would like to learn more about the Sanctuary Model and how Hibiscus Children’s Center utilizes it to provide the highest quality environment and services for our children and staff, please contact Robin Turner, LMHC, Sanctuary Training Specialist, at rturner@hcc4kids.org or 772-404-1192.