Safety Before Trust: Recent Episodes
California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care
The California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care is committed to helping trauma-exposed people achieve safety, connection, and empowerment and helping agencies transform practice to work more effectively with clients by better understanding trauma and focusing on safety. The principle of Safety Before Trust is a foundation of this work, particularly in connection with the Center's project to stop trusted advisor abuse, which occurs when a person in a position of trust uses that position to control a patient, client, parishioner, or athlete. The Stop Trusted Advisor abuse project promotes educating the general public, holding professionals to a higher level of responsibility, ensuring that accountability systems do a much better job of policing abuse within their ranks, and protecting those who rely on providers, whether in publicly-funded systems or on the private market. Safety Before Trust means “Because I am safer, I have the ability to trust,” not the other way around.
Podcast host Gabriella Grant and special co-host Sydney Scanlon examine trusted advisor abuse as it has occurred in the Bikram Yoga and Yoga to the People communities.
Fiona Barwick, PhD, director of the Sleep & Circadian Health Clinic at Stanford Sleep Medicine Center talks with podcast host Gabriella Grant about the relationships between sleep and trauma and explains some relatively easy-to-implement routines that people use to achieve healthier sleep.
California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care director Gabriella Grant and researcher Sara Kaufman explain the concept of trusted advisor abuse and discuss the multiple failures that prevented young women from being protected from abuse by former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Learn more at the Stop Trusted Advisor Abuse project website: http://complaintweb.trauma-informed-california.org.