7 Commitments
The commitment towards helping people who have experienced violence as part of their trauma.
What is Nonviolence?
A group of people serving as the primary vehicle for implementation of the Sanctuary Model, consisting of a cross section of staff from all levels of the organization's hierachy.
What is the Core Team?
What is Safety?
The number of sanctuary commitments and agency core values.
What is Seven Commitments and Four Core Values?
The cumulative effect of strain on the helper who works with those who have been traumatized.
What is Vicarious Traumatization?
The commitment towards assisting others in building sensitivity, respect, and understanding regarding people's feelings.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
A three-question conversation held with groups or individuals focused on promoting feelings of identification, future, and a connection to community.
What is Community Meeting?
This component of SELF focuses on emotional expression and identifying how they are managed relevant to the topic at hand.
What is Emotion Management?
The four pillars of Sanctuary.
What is Trauma Theory, S.E.L.F., Seven Commitments, and Tools?
The acquired capacity to be flexible in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors when facing life challenges in order to bounce back and move forward with confidence.
What is Resilience?
The commitment towards allowing people to feel empowered, able to participate in, and have their voice heard in decision making process.
A visual reminder of emotion management practices, represented as a list of activities, techniques, or skills to be used in situations that trigger inappropriate behaviors.
What is a Safety Plan?
This component focuses on the impacts of change and allows people the opportunity to grieve or recognize its impacts to others.
What is Loss?
The agency's four core values.
What is Compassion, Wellness, Empowerment, Excellence?
Replaying the trauma through behaviors or in relationships
What is Traumatic Reenactment?
This comment focuses on supporting those to focus on future goals and planning to counteract feelings of paralysis after traumatic experiences.
What is Growth and Change?
A framework for organizing service planning meetings exploring functioning, challenges, goals, and progress in the areas of Safety, Emotion Management, Loss, and Future.
What is S.E.L.F. service planning?
This component of SELF focuses on identifying plans and vision for success in a forward oriented approach.
What is Future?
The agency's mission statement
Enriching the lives of children and families with hope, health, and happiness.
The concept that the level of safety, stress, and trauma at the highest levels of the organization can directly reflect the level of safety, stress, and trauma at the level of the individual programs.
What is Parallel Process?
This commitment focuses on collaborative thinking and problem solving to break dysfunctional and repetitive patterns through exposure to other's perspectives and ideas.
What is Social Learning?
A response to critical incidents that any team member can call, that follows a protocol that focuses on solutions rather than problems.
What is Red Flag Meeting?
The four domains of safety component in SELF.
What is Physical, Psychological, Social, and Moral safety?
Research completed in the 1990s by Drs. Felitti and Anda looking at the relationship between this and later health outcomes in adults.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences?
A situation where a strong emotion becomes disconnected from its original source and becomes attached to unrelated events or interactions.
What is Collective Disturbance?