Stef Smith Email & Phone Number

South Carolina

Traveled to agencies throughout South Carolina and conducted extensive interviews enabling agencies to see the strengths and challenges they face in becoming more trauma-informedSummarized large amounts of information into manageable and understandable piecesExplained complicated reports, step by step, so that agencies could complete and turn them in in a timely mannerFollowed up with agencies to provide assistance and ensure accuracySubmitted and prepared detailed reports, presentations, and correspondenceMaintained calendar, scheduled and coordinated meetings and appointmentsPresented findings at semiannual directors’ meetings and attended regularly scheduled conference calls

Pickens County, Sc

Conducted walk-throughs in agencies and facilities throughout South Carolina and Kentucky, in schools, churches, Behavioral Health Services locations, and children’s homes, to help them to be more trauma-informed in their environmentGave speeches, ranging anywhere from thirty minutes to two hours, on how to see the world through the eyes of a survivor as well as on the importance of Trauma-Informed Care and why it needs to be the foundation of any business or institution that could possibly deal with trauma survivorsParticipated in several panels concerning Trauma-Informed Care, trauma, and understanding survivors, and answered questions explaining how a trauma survivor thinksGave multiple trainings and PowerPoint presentations on Trauma-Informed CareSat on the Trauma-Informed Care committee at Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County

South Carolina

Created and led a free, community-based support group for adult and teenage survivors of childhood sexual abuseWorked with over 500 survivors of trauma