From Film Festival to City Council Chambers: Philadelphia ACE Task Force Charts a Path Toward Policy Change on Secondary Traumatic Stress
The path toward policies that would buffer Philadelphia workers from secondary traumatic stress began with a simple ask: Come see a movie. That movie was a documentary, Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain , viewed by an audience of 250 as part of a 2016 film festival hosted by the Philadelphia ACE Task Force (PATF). The screening launched a three-year effort to put secondary traumatic stress on the radar of Philadelphia’s policy-makers—a journey of relationships...