All Pathways Lead Home: Creating Resilience and Independence Through Diversion–
Hosted by: Dr. Stacey Dixon, MHA, PhD, President, Project Transition and Person-Centered Supports
Instructional Level: Intermediate
For people with long histories of hospitalization and incarceration, learning how to establish and maintain a stable sense of home in the community is a daunting task. Responses to trauma often lead them back to the settings that are familiar, even when those settings create more trauma. Helping them to envision a life without community-disruptive events requires a commitment to diverting attempts to seek higher levels of care, radical acceptance of where they are in the process, immense patience as they experience opportunities to increase their resilience and independence, and building a life worth living in the community.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how higher levels of care can create trauma and strengthen trauma-responses
- Identify 3 ways a provider can increase the likelihood of diversion home during pre-crisis and crisis events
- Understand how to process “lessons learned” from crisis events with staff and the person supported in order to build resilience
