It's time now for another community spotlight again via Zoom as the studio is under construction.

We have Adriana Hernandez.

She is a trauma support specialist at Kadlec, where she's a licensed clinical social worker.

So Adriana, thank you so much for being here today.

Thank you for having us.

First of all, I want to talk about this trauma support program.

It's one of the only ones, if not the only one, in the state of Washington.

Tell us about it.

Yeah.

So we are hitting our two year mark here at Kadlec.

It's been a couple years in the works before it was implemented, and we've been able to integrate it, I think, fairly well at this point in time.

It is a free six month program for people that have been in a physically traumatic accident.

And some examples may be something like, maybe a workplace accident to fall off of a ladder, maybe someone who's driving a forklift and had an accident on site, you know, something like that.

Maybe somebody had a gunshot wound, was a victim of a stabbing, things like that.

Motor vehicle collisions.

Those types of things.

Sure.

You were telling me of a statistic that 1 in 3 survivors of traumatic injuries can end up with post-traumatic stress.

That is a stat that, you know, is kind of at the center of the work that we do.

There is a big potential for risk, and we are working on lessening the symptoms.

That's basically what we are focusing and targeting.

So two years into the program and it says you folks have 30 to 40 patients at a time.

How are they receiving help?

What sort of resources do you help them with in the six month process?

There's two main components.

One is mental health.

The other one is, connection to community resources.

With mental health, we go in and we do mental health assessments, some screeners and assessments.

We do that at baseline.

We do that at the one month mark, the three month mark, and six month mark in our program to monitor how they are scoring.

And, as far as the resource piece goes, we have a community health worker on our team that is well versed on a lot of things out in the community and helps pull what type of new resources are going on, changes in the community kind of keeps track of all of that.

So as we are meeting our patients and they are needing certain things, we kind of come together with the information that we've got and what's available at any given point in time.

So those are some of the big areas, I think that we focus on.

That's a lot of stuff, Adriana.

you guys are doing incredible work for so many.

So, number one, thank you for that.

And also thank you for your time today.

Again, this is the Kadlec Trauma Support program.