Need

Trauma is defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. Traumatic events, such as abuse, disasters, accidents, and combat, affect a person physically, psychologically, and socially. Symptoms plaguing a traumatized person include depression, anxiety, insomnia, isolation, guilt, shame, nightmares, delusion, hallucinations and physical complications, leaving deep negative effects on the closest and most important relationships.

Financial barriers impede access to high quality, long-term, trauma centered, mental health care. The high cost of care can be detrimental to individuals and families.

In today’s society, stigma can be another barrier. Stigma is defined as a mark of shame or discredit. Some effects of stigma include strain on relationships, reluctance to seek help, harassment, and self doubt.

It is up to us! Together we can change the attitude toward mental health issues and reduce the financial burden that plague high risk individuals. These issues coupled with the trauma itself trigger the immediate call for financial assistance for those in need.

Service

Footnotes Trauma Foundation partners with Footnotes Counseling Services in response to the community need for high-quality, trauma-informed care, targeting the roots of mental health symptoms and helping real people obtain real help in a Christ-centered, attachment-oriented framework.

Footnotes Trauma Foundation and Footnotes Counseling Services are dedicated to the deep work that helps clients climb out of crisis mode and rebuild a healthy lifestyle and relationships despite the ability to pay for healthcare. With highly trained and well educated counselors, Footnotes is able to offer solid hope through advanced therapy to promote healing.

Trauma survivors have the right and option to health, wholeness and healing. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the options Footnotes offers to help aid in trauma recovery. Please read more about the EMDR method at http://www.emdrhap.org/content/about/what-is-emdr/