Partners
Pathways to Prevention: A Centre for Childhood Trauma is the natural progression of the work of Hull Services, a leader in the provision of mental health and support in Alberta. Rooted in decades of high-quality implementation of leading models and strategies in mental health, Hull Services and Pathways to Prevention have been invited into many collaborative opportunities for service provision, research, advocacy and training. As these relationships have naturally deepened and expanded, we have built our capacity and contribution to mental health in step with others in the field. Here are some of Pathways to Prevention’s strongest and most valued partnerships.
Our Valued Supporters
Our Valued Supporters provide large-scale investments allowing us to carry out our mission of creating a future free from developmental trauma, as well as supporting our pillars of education and training, research, service, clinical intervention and consultation. By working together, we aim to provide valuable programs, services and training to service providers as well as enhancing the well-being of individuals impacted by developmental trauma.
Research Partners
Research Partners provide smaller-scale investments along with joint efforts in designing, implementing, and analyzing research studies, with the shared goal of generating evidence-based insights that contribute to the improvement of trauma-informed policies and practices.
Community Partners
Community Partners provide smaller-scale investments along with shared resources, expertise, and a joint commitment to developing and implementing programs, initiatives, and support systems aimed at preventing and mitigating the impact of developmental trauma.
Thank you to the generous support of the Shaw Family Foundation for their continued support of Hull Services and Pathways to Prevention: A Centre for Childhood Trauma
The Shaw Family Foundation was first introduced to Hull Services and its Hull Child and Family Foundation (‘Hull’) in the late 1990s. Recognizing the value of Hull’s work with NM, Shaw Family Foundation donated $2.6 million to launch the development of Pathways to Prevention: A Centre for Childhood Trauma.
With Shaw Family Foundation’s support, Hull’s programs were equipped with the necessary training, tools, and clinical support to build Pathways to Prevention, a community for innovative research, exceptional training and education, and unparalleled advocacy to prevent developmental trauma.
As a result of the Shaw funding, Trauma-Informed Services (Now Pathways to Prevention) experienced an increase in capacity for partnerships with organizations and professionals providing adjunct therapies essential to the prevention and treatment of developmental trauma.
It enabled Pathways to Prevention clinical staff to grow their clinical capacity to deliver leading-edge NM interventions, motivating Children’s Services to fund Pathways to Prevention to train over 2,700 participants from 223 agencies in Alberta, including front line workers, health care workers, educators, administrators, policy makers, caregivers, juvenile justice workers and others.
In addition, the Shaw funding enabled Pathways to Prevention to extend training and consultation to Indigenous groups, including a school district in Alberta that, as a result, graduated students with high school diplomas for the first time since opening.
The funding revolutionized our organizational practice to a trauma informed and brain-based understanding of children’s needs. The resulting implementation models have been shared nationally and internationally, leading to a steady stream of requests for consultation regarding both organizational and individual implementation of the NM approach.