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Pamela Pine

Pamela Pine

Director of Stop the Silence® (a department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma); PhD, MPH; international public health specialist focusing on trauma-informed practices and child sexual abuse prevention.

Jun 24, 2026

2:12
How does the impact of personal trauma sort of manifest itself in the workplace?
2:17
It's huge.
2:18
And there is both a human and emotional response to this, along with stories that I've seen and witnessed and been a part of for the past more than 25 years.
2:33
And there is a technical and monetary and emotional slash psychological response to What I would say first is that the impact of child maltreatment on health, wellness, social systems, diminished labor productivity, high turnover, and reduced consumer demand totals a whopping $428 billion in losses annually in the United States alone.
3:11
Wow.
3:12
That figures sometimes... is quoted as up to $3 trillion.
3:20
That's for all the different types of trauma combined.

5 MINS LATER

8:27
And you mentioned in the article that you wrote that above and beyond, of course, like you said, helping you know seeing if maybe there's something that you can do you know something that hr can do to help this employee is the humane thing to do but but you know there are also benefits to the organization in that you know and you wrote about about that in the article that trauma-informed hr you know can help really help public sector organizations ultimately improve morale resilience productivity retention and day-to-day performance uh so i mean and this might be kind of backtracking a little a little bit i i think you've kind of already done this for us but If you had to define trauma-informed HR for us, and moreover, what that looks like for public sector employers and HR leaders.

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