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Transforming Lives Through Trauma Healing & Reentry Support
Empowering trauma recovery and reentry with compassionate, evidence-based strategies to foster resilience, successful transitions, and inclusive communities.
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What Drives Us

Our Mission

At Dr. Sandra Global, we inspire incarcerated women by providing trauma-informed resources, care, and peer support to improve their behavioral health and resilience. Our programs focus on mental health, self-worth, and healing, equipping women to manage past traumas and build healthier lives. By fostering empowerment and community, we enhance their well-being and support successful reintegration, employment, and family stability.

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Technical Assistance & Consultation

We support trauma-informed reentry programs through tailored assistance with design, peer specialist training, program evaluation, and mental health consulting for trauma-sensitive approaches.

Personalized Workshops & Team Training

We offer interactive, trauma-informed reentry training to equip professionals with trauma-sensitive tools, mental health workshops to build resilience, peer support specialist training for mentorship, cultural competency workshops for inclusivity, and family reconnection sessions to support healthy post-incarceration relationships.

Community Engagement, Advocacy & Public Speaking

We provide community reentry education to reduce stigma, promote trauma-informed support, and trauma care sessions for families to aid in healing during reintegration that support mental health and reentry, as well as thought leadership through Dr. Sandra’s speaking engagements on trauma healing and reentry innovation.
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Sandra’s knowledge and passion for recovery, reentry, and peer specialist support services across programs, curriculum development, and trainings make her an invaluable asset to behavioral health organizations. She is authentic, transparent, dependable, and service-oriented.

Alejandra Adán, M.S.Ed, viahope

The impact of these services is multifaceted and far-reaching, particularly for organizations, individuals, and communities involved in reentry and recovery. Addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and social challenges of reentry, while also contributing to broader systemic and cultural shifts, creates sustainable change at all levels—from individuals to systems—making it a crucial model for reentry and recovery.

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Participation in comprehensive reentry programs can reduce recidivism by as much as 50%

(Prison Policy Initiative, 2020)

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Trauma-informed care programs have been shown to improve mental health outcomes and reduce disciplinary incidents by 43% in reentry settings

(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA)

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Reentry programs utilizing peer specialists see an approximate 30% improvement in participant engagement and completion rates

(National Peer Support Collaborative Learning Network, 2020)
our foundation

Core Values

Compassion

We approach every individual with empathy, understanding, and a commitment to supporting mental and emotional well-being.

Collaboration

We value partnerships and teamwork, working closely with individuals, organizations, and communities to achieve meaningful outcome

Excellence

We strive for the highest quality in all aspects of our work, ensuring that our training and consultations are impactful and effective.

Innovation

We are dedicated to continuous learning, embracing cutting-edge research, and developing creative solutions to meet the evolving needs in mental health and reentry services based on lived experience.
about our exeecutive director

Dr. Sandra D. Smith, IRPS

Dr. Sandra D. Smith stands out as a truly exceptional and well-kept secret, embodying a remarkable example of “Recovery” within contemporary society. With a Ph.D. earned through dedicated research on support services, her dissertation gained recognition through dual publications with UMI and the esteemed German Scholars Press. Dr. Smith holds certifications as a Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist, creator of the Certified Reentry Peer Specialist program, and a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor Intern.

Her journey of non-traditional recovery is a testament to resilience, overcoming childhood thoughts of abandonment, battling process addiction, and surviving incarceration at the formidable Rikers Island in New York City. Dr. Smith’s professional experience includes roles such as Vice President, Peer Programs Manager, Associate Director of a Recovery Community Center in Dallas, TX, and esteemed positions as University Dean and Associate Regional Dean.

Dr. Smith is a great facilitator with a unique approach to balancing achieving goals and trauma informed approaches. Her strategies are innovative and practical. There is not an issue that she can’t solve. If you’re looking to build or enhance your program, I highly recommend obtaining Dr. Smith’s services!

Cynthia Simons, Travis County

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