Aligning Hospitals to Promote Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Transformation in Chicago

The Working Group was the first of its kind nationally to unite hospitals and health care systems to begin to bring trauma-informed transformation to scale; it remains a leader in the field, with its co-chairs presenting at national conferences and providing technical assistance to others seeking to replicate this model. [...] Methods To understand the unique experiences of the various hospital members of the Working Group, qualitative interviews were conducted with eight individuals from different institutions in the summer of 2018 and winter of 2019. [...] Participants came to the Working Group out of a genuine desire to deepen support for staff and improve care for patients, and they had a thirst to learn and do more. [...] Aligning Hospitals to Promote Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Transformation in Chicago About the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative Established in 2011, the Illinois ACEs Response Collaborative (the Collaborative) represents a broad range of organizations and agencies committed to expanding and deepening the understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and ACEs on the health and well-being. [...] The Collaborative works to catalyze a cross-sector movement to prevent trauma across the lifespan and to place the impact of childhood experience on wellbeing at the forefront of the equity agenda in Illinois.