Boston Consortium of Services for Families in Recovery: A Trauma-Informed Intervention Model for Women's Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment

Through collaboration among the service agencies collectively known as the Boston Consortium of Services for Families in Recovery, the Boston Public Health Commission implemented an integrated model of trauma-informed services that is culturally and linguistically appropriate to its service population of primarily poor urban Latina and African American women. The enhanced intervention was implemented in five Consortium-affiliated alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs providing outpatient, residential, and methadone services. Programs adopted trauma-informed service system enhancements and offered study participants a package of trauma-specific and trauma-informed clinical services. The assessment and consensus-building processes, enhanced model components, implementation process, challenges and lessons learned are described.