GOBHI is committed to the mission of becoming trauma-informed as an organization and to promoting trauma-informed care principles within its affiliated healthcare service organizations and the communities in which our members reside.

We believe that everyone is born with the capacity for progressive development, but that this capacity can be derailed by overwhelming life stressors and traumatic experiences. As a result of these events, individuals may develop coping skills that make sense in the context of their history but later have negative consequences. This is true for clients, their family members, as well as staff members at all levels of the agency.