Behavioral Health at Glen Oaks

The Center for Traumatic Stress, Resilience and Recovery provides resilience, clinical and educational services to support Northwell employees and their family members impacted by COVID-19. It is also engaged in research efforts to understand the effect of stress on health care employees, as well as the connection between traumatic stress and health-related outcomes. We also offer robust clinical services with the use of evidence-based interventions to community members as well as employees.

A critical program of our center is the adaptation and implementation of Stress First Aid (SFA) within Northwell Health. Widely used within the U.S. Navy, SFA is an organizational peer support and self-care model used to alleviate stress reactions. This program will embed SFA in day-to-day team operations to mitigate ongoing stressors.

Our center is available to provide presentations and consultations on trauma and trauma-informed care to sites and organization within Northwell Health and the community at large.

Trauma and traumatic stress are common experiences that touch the lives of community members and health care workers in many ways. Many individuals and families exhibit resilience in the face of these stressors, but it is also common for people to struggle. The Center for Traumatic Stress, Resilience and Recovery was established with a three-part mission:

1. To promote adjustment to traumatic stressors by delivering and facilitating resilience building and clinical services to our community members and health care workers
2. To educate providers and our community on the impact of traumatic stress and means for building resilience and recovery from its effects
3. To better understand the impact of traumatic stress on community members and health care workers through innovative research

Our vision is to evolve Northwell Health into a trauma-informed system of care that will be able to support team members, their family members and community constituents impacted by traumatic stress.