Trauma, Addiction, Mental Health & Recovery (TAMAR)

About TAMAR

Trauma, Addiction, Mental health, And Recovery (TAMAR) is a modularized psychoeducational program that can be used for those in all settings from inpatient, outpatient, community programs, schools, jails, faith institutions, etc. The program is designed to help attendees understand trauma and its effect on their lives, families, and communities.

In addition to education and discussion, the intervention features creative expression, dialectical behavior therapy, and mind-body awareness to help develop vital skills that promote understanding and healing.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the benefits of trauma specific care.

2. Learn how to implement the modules and their activities within the T.A.M.A.R. program for diverse settings.

3. Review connections between trauma, drug abuse, homelessness, psychiatric disorders and criminal activity; the need for shelter, drug treatment, jail-based, and community mental health resources.

4. Learn self regulation strategies designed to reduce symptoms.

Conscious Expansion

Social health practitioners play an essential role in helping trauma individuals understand the impact of trauma on their lives, their families, and their communities. Restorative justice work begins with auditing programmatic practices and culture norms in the healing space. Many practitioners who have received trauma-informed care training are charged with integrating the eight (8) pillars into programmatic and organizational practices.

This TAMAR activation will provide social health practitioners with strategies and tools to weave pillars of trauma-informed care into programming and operational protocols to improve the human conditions of persons who are trauma exposed.

“Naming and framing data resources to measure evidence-based healing tools are key to shifting social health outcomes.”

Maurissa Stone

Do you want to move your organization’s trauma-informed care training into action?

Are you a social health practitioner who wants to weave the pillars of trauma-informed care into your programming?

Does your program have access to data that allows you to measure the impact and outcomes of trauma-informed practices?

THE LIVING WELL WILL:

Provide five (5) hours of technical assistance to implement T.A.M.A.R. programming that incorporates healing technologies, such as mindbody expression and creative arts.

THE PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATION WILL:

Attend training on April 25, 2023 from 9 am - 4 pm.

Complete a pre-registration survey.

View Healing Inside Out. Print or Download session materials.

Maurissa Stone is the founder and Principle of Iona Concepts Inc. a boutique training and change-management consultancy; the Chief Equity Impact Analyst for Fight Blight Baltimore, an economic, environmental, and social justice platform; and the Director of Innovation for The Living Well (TLW) Center for Social and Economic Vibrancy. Stone celebrates 30 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations, government agencies (federal, state, and local), Universities and entities in the private sector.

As an alumnus from Lincoln University where she received a Master degree in Human Services. Her advance level training includes: Center for Creative Leadership, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond Undoing Racism Cohort and the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.

Stone continues to serve on the front lines in the fight for social and economic justice. Her goal is to eradicate structural determinants of health by dismantling the social agency of racism. Disrupting social norms that are baked into the DNA of our operating systems and culture requires a thick skin, as resistance to change is constant.

David A. Washington has been in the field of substance use disorder treatment since 1989. He worked for the Johns Hopkins Program of Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependences prior to his current position. In 2000 he was hired as a Trauma Specialist at the Washington County Health Department, Division of Behavioral Health Services, through the Department of Mental Hygiene Division of Special Needs Populations in Maryland. 2017 he became a Program Coordinator of a Harm Reduction Program.

Mr. Washington has worked to advance the field of trauma services and harm reduction and is currently working with males across the country to increase the understanding, intervention, and implementation of traumainformed services for people involved in behavioral health and harm reduction services.

He is a member of the Bristlecone Project that focuses on male survivors of sexual trauma. “Working to foster an understanding of how childhood trauma impacts an individual is my purpose in life. I can think of no better way of being of service to mankind and harm reduction program.”

Charryse Nichelle Wright She is an advocate for trauma recovery, Charryse is passionate about the intersections between trauma and Christianity. She is determined to help others understand the mind-bodyspirit connection and how trauma severs that connection which requires interdependent authentic attempts at healing.

She has a Bachelor’s in Social Work from Barry University and a Master’s in Divinity from United Lutheran Seminary. She is currently attending Jefferson University completing a Master’s in Community and Trauma Counseling while serving as a chaplain intern at Jefferson University Hospital.

She is the author of Finding God’s Truth Within, a workbook discussing forgiveness and healing so one can begin walking their God-given purpose.

She is the founder and CEO of Just Wright Ministries, Inc., an organization that assists individuals and organizations that have been traumatized discover and develop their pathways to healing.

MAURISSA STONE DAVID A. WASHINGTON CHARRYSE NICHELLE WRIGHT