The Sanctuary Model: Theoretical framework. Families in Society: The

impliCations For praCtiCe • emerging research suggests the importance of organizational culture in the delivery of evidence-based mental health services and, thus, the need for organizational interventions such as the sanctuary model. • By creating a restorative culture through the sanctuary model, service providers can be emotionally available to each other and their clients, resulting in positive relationships that create the conditions for resilience

The Sanctuary Model: Theoretical framework. Families in Society: The

This article provides a theoretical framework for the Sanctuary Model. The Sanctuary Model is a trauma-informed organizational change intervention developed by Sandra Bloom and colleagues in the early 1980s. Based on the concept of therapeutic communities, the model is designed to facilitate the development of organizational cultures that counteract the wounds suffered by the victims of traumatic experience and extended exposure to adversity. Details of the Sanctuary Model logic model are presented. Implications for Practice • Emerging research suggests the importance of organizational culture in the delivery of evidence-based mental health services and, thus, the need for organizational interventions such as the Sanctuary Model. • By creating a restorative culture through the Sanctuary Model, service providers can be emotionally available to each other and their clients, resulting in positive relationships that create the conditions for resilience. The Sanctuary Model represents a theory-based, trauma-informed, evidencesupported (National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2008; The objective of such a change is to more effectively provide a cohesive context within which healing from physical, psychological, and social traumatic experience can be addressed. As an organizational culture intervention, the Sanctuary Model is designed to facilitate the development of structures, processes, and behaviors on the part of staff, clients, and the community as a whole that can counteract the biological, affective, cognitive, social, and existential wounds suffered by the victims of traumatic experience and extended exposure to adversit