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Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and recently was awarded the Temple University School of Medicine Alumni Achievement Award. She is a Adjunct Professor of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia, and President of CommunityWorks, an organizational consulting firm committed to the development of nonviolent environments. Dr. Bloom currently serves as Distinguished Fellow of the Andrus Children’s Center in Yonkers, NY. From 1980-2001, Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders. n partnership with Andrus Children’s Center, Dr. Bloom has established a training institute, the Sanctuary Institute, to train a wide variety of programs in the Sanctuary Model®. The Sanctuary Model® is now being applied in residential treatment programs for children, domestic violence shelters, group homes, homeless shelters and is being used in other settings as a method of organizational development. Dr. Bloom is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and author of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies and co-author of Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility.

Joseph F. Foderaro, LCSW, BCD  received his M.S.S. degree from Bryn Mawr School of Social Work in 1976 and served as Program Director and Co-Founder of the Sanctuary programs from 1980-2001. He also co-founded the Alliance for Creative Development, a multidisciplinary private practice and management company, where he conducted a private practice between 1980 and 2001. He has been a field instructor and supervisor for the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work, the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, and the Marywood School of Social Work. He currently has a private practice in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, serves as a management consultant for CommunityWorks, and as a consultant to the psychiatric inpatient program at Lancaster General Hospital. He recently co-authored with Sandra Bloom and RuthAnn Ryan, a group manual titled, S.E.L.F.: A Trauma-Informed Psychoeducational Group Curriculum and has been training staff from domestic violence shelters, parenting programs, and homeless shelters in the use of this curriculum.

Ruth Ann Ryan, APRN, BC is a Clinical Nurse Specialist and a founding member of the Sanctuary Programs in Philadelphia area.  She has served as Program Director and senior clinician of the Sanctuary. She and her colleagues developed the SAGE/SELF Model of trauma recovery, which has been implemented in treatment programs for children, adolescents and adults in many locations in the United States and Canada. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania and has over 30 years experience in the mental health field.  She currently maintains a psychotherapy practice in the Philadelphia suburbs specializing in trauma treatment and is a CommunityWorks  organizational consultant on Sanctuary and SELF principles and practices to  social service agencies and treatment facilities throughout the country. She recently co-authored with Sandra Bloom and Joseph Foderaro, a group manual titled, S.E.L.F.: A Trauma-Informed Psychoeducational Group Curriculum and has been training staff from domestic violence shelters, parenting programs, and homeless shelters in the use of this curriculum.