The Sanctuary Model is being adopted by a number of residential programs for children and adolescents including:

• Andrus Children’s Center, Yonkers, NY •

• Annsville Residential Center, Taberg, NY

• •Astor Children’s Home, Rhinebeck, NY

• •Baker Victory Services, Lackawanna, NY

• •Brentwood Residential Center, Dix Hills, NY•

• Carevisions, Lochabie, Scotland

• Glove House, Elmira, NY

• •Goldsmith Center, JBFCS, NY•

• Hawthorne – Cedar Knolls Treatment Program for Children, JBFCS, NY

• Linden Hill School, JBFCS, NY

• •Jewish Child Care Association, Pleasantville, NY

• •MercyFirst, Syosset, NY•

• Sarah Reed Children’s Center, Erie, PA

• •St. Catherine’s Center for Children, Albany, NY

• •Uta Halee Girls Village/Cooper Village, Omaha, NB

• White Fields, Oklahoma City, OK

Staff members from all of these programs have attended the Sanctuary Institute and the programs are now part of the Sanctuary Network.

Article on the Sanctuary Model(2007) from Challenging Solutions: Strategies for Promoting Child Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being in New York State - official publication of New York State Office of Children and Family Services

Bloom, S. L. (2005) The Sanctuary Model of Organizational Change for Children’s Residential Treatment. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 65-81

The first article, by the founder of the Sanctuary Model, Sandra Bloom, describes the parallel processes that occur between traumatized children and the staff that treat them and describes a whole-system approach to creating a system that can truly meet the needs of traumatized youngsters. Her paper describes an implementation process at the Andrus Children’s Center (and now beginning at Parsons’ Child and Family Center) that was facilitated by intensive training of a multidisciplinary Sanctuary Facilitation Team (core team) representing every level of the organization, which then take on the responsibility of training the entire staff in the Sanctuary Model

Thomas, M. E. (2005. Creative thinking and talking in residential care. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 115-125.

Rivard, J.C., McCorkle, D., Duncan, M.E., Pasquale, L.E., Bloom, S. L., Abramovitz, R. (2004). Implementing a Trauma Recovery Framework for Youths in Residential Treatment. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(5): 529-550.

This paper describes an intervention designed to address the  special needs of youths with histories of maltreatment and exposure to family and community violence. The primary components of the model include an enhanced therapeutic community environment and a psychoeducation program that is aimed at changing non-adaptive cognitive and behavioral patterns which developed as means of coping with traumatic experiences. The implementation of the model and proximal effects on the therapeutic communities and youths are being examined in comparison to standard residential services. Initial perceptions of staff illustrate the challenges in applying an intervention that calls for changing the organizational culture.

Rivard, J.C., Bloom, S. L., McCorkle, D. and Abramovitz, R. (2005) Preliminary results of a study examining the implementation and effects of trauma recovery framework for youths in residential treatment. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 83-96

The second article by researcher, Jeanne Rivard and colleagues describes a research project at a large campus encompassing three residential settings operated by the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (JBFCS) in New York. The research was in part supported by an NIMH grant investigating the implementation of the Sanctuary Model in that setting under the auspices of Columbia University, the Center for Trauma Program Innovation at JBFCS and the Saul Z. Cohen Chair of JBFCS . The implementation of Sanctuary in these three settings – Hawthorne–Cedar Knolls, Linden Hill School, and the Goldsmith Center – continues today and has expanded beyond the “experimental group” to include the “control group”, thus expanding Sanctuary to the entire campus as well as the on-site schools.

This article by Brian Farragher, the Chief Operating Officer at Andrus Children’s Center and Sarah Yanosy Sreedhar, the Clinical Coordinator of the Diagnostic Unit at Andrus Children’s Center provides a first-hand account of how their organization is adapting the Sanctuary Model to the treatment of very disturbed children.

Abramovitz, R. and Bloom, S. L. (2003). Creating sanctuary in a residential treatment center for troubled children and adolescents. Psychiatric Quarterly 74(2): 119-135

McCorkle, D. and Peacock, C. (2005). Trauma and the isms – a herd of elephants in the room: A training vignette. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 127-133.