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The Amazing Brain: Trauma and the Potential for Healing, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. This brochure was written by Linda Burgess Chamberlain, PhD, MPH with support from the Institute for Safe Families and Multiplying Connections of the Health Federation of Philadelphia and Advocates for Youth. Linda Burgess Chamberlain
Dr. Chamberlain is the founding director of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project. An epidemiologist specializing in domestic violence, she is an internationally recognized speaker on the effects of violence on children and brain development. She lives on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her dog team. A national Kellogg Leadership Fellow, Dr. Chamberlain is also a motivational speaker and uses “lessons from the trail” to promote key strategies for teamwork and leadership. She can be contacted via e-mail at howlinghusky@gci.net |
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The Institute for Safe Families (ISF)
is a non-profit organization whose mission is to prevent family violence and promote the health and well being of each member of the family and their community. Since the early 1990’s, ISF has developed innovative programming and built coalitions that unite health care providers with social service, policy experts, researchers, academicians, and victim/survivors. One of ISF’s unique strengths has been to create forums for cross-systems dialogue aimed at building greater capacity for more effective prevention and response to family violence. |
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Multiplying Connections of The Health Federation of Philadelphia
is a cross system collaborative whose mission is to translate the research on early childhood brain development into better practice through professional training and organizational and policy change. Multiplying Connections is developing materials and strategies to promote trauma informed and developmentally appropriate care across the public child and family service system in the City of Philadelphia. This capacity building initiative is funded by the William Penn Foundation. |
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Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world. |
