مؤلف: Sandra L. Bloom

Dr. Sandra L. Bloom, founder of the Sanctuary Model, is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and recently was awarded the Temple University School of Medicine Alumni Achievement. Dr. Bloom is the Distinguished Fellow at Andrus Children”s Center in Yonkers, New York. She has served as Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is author of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies and co-author of Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility. Lorelei Atalie Vargas is Director of Policy, Planning and Research at the Andrus Children”s Center in Yonkers, New York and oversees the Andrus Center for Learning and Innovation. She helped coordinate the conference, Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children, in 2005, which became the catalyst for this book. Ms. Vargas holds graduate degrees in Public Policy and Education from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She and her husband live in Yonkers, New York with their two children.