The PATH Program is a citywide trauma-informed care initiative developed and facilitated by Sage Wellness Group, LLC (SWG) in partnership with Baltimore City’s Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE). Designed as a pilot to strengthen trauma-informed practices across Baltimore’s healthcare ecosystem, PATH equipped clinical and non-clinical hospital staff with practical, equity-centered tools to deliver safer, more compassionate, and more responsive care.

 

From May 2025 to October 2025, participants from across five participating hospitals – Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, MedStar Harbor Hospital, Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital, and the University of Maryland Medical Center – attended monthly in-person trainings and participated in hospital-specific group coaching sessions. The training curriculum emphasizes understanding systemic, race-based, and medical trauma; adopting person-centered, strengths-based language; enhancing patient advocacy; and supporting staff well-being to reduce burnout. The monthly coaching sessions enabled participants to apply skills learned and dive more deeply into the insights gained from the trainings, in order for each institution to develop its own Capstone Project. 

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In preparation, Sage Wellness Group conducted listening sessions in March 2025 to ensure that the program would meet the needs of hospital staff, as well as the people and communities they serve.  Those who were interested signed up and SWG coordinated with the participating institutions to put measures in place to maximize the success of the Program. Pre- and post-assessment information was gathered to measure learning and to provide participants with an opportunity to give active feedback about the Program, and hospital leadership at each institution protected time to allow participants to fully engage in the Program.

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By the conclusion of this pilot initiative, the PATH Program had helped strengthen organizational capacity for trauma-responsive care, promoted a common language of healing, and laid the groundwork for scalable, sustainable trauma-informed practices throughout Baltimore’s healthcare system. 

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