Our Services

Christie’s Place began integrating trauma-informed care into their program after realizing the high degree of need among their clients. Developed as a guiding philosophy, the ongoing and dynamic structure of the Christie’s Place model of trauma-informed service provision was influenced by training and technical assistance from the Office on Women’s Health, literature on trauma-informed care and service provision, and 20 years of experience and lessons learned via the provision of HIV social services focused on the needs and experiences of women living with HIV.

Christie’s Place’s efforts to better recognize and address the intersection between HIV and violence among women and girls were undertaken in conjunction with the needs of the organization, staff, and consumers. The core components described in this resource have come to comprise the philosophy through which trauma-informed service provision has developed at Christie’s Place.