About the Toolkit
This toolkit was created by the Building Healing Behavioral Health Systems (Healing Systems) team to help Maryland’s Public Behavioral Health Systems become trauma-informed and healing-centered.
The Healing Systems team includes people from:
- Maryland Behavioral Health Administration
- University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
- Bowie State University
- Collaboration with community organizations and people with lived experience of public systems and trauma or adversity.
Healing Systems has the following values:
- Our work is trauma-informed and healing-centered.
- We acknowledge trauma and its effects on people and communities.
- We support systems that understand the signs of trauma, respond to trauma-related needs, and resist re-traumatization.
- We engage communities in using strengths and healing practices to support thriving and wellness.
- We acknowledge that communities are resilient. We seek to undo harmful systems and practices that make resilience necessary.
- We aim to build supports for trauma-informed and healing-centered systems that are sustainable.