83 arrests, 66 convictions, and hundreds of requests to serve as the keynote speaker in front of audiences that include the United Nations, the President and Commander in Chief of the United States, government agencies, teachers, community and civic organizations, and convicted felons. Featured in the documentary Behind Closed Doors: Trauma Survivors and the Psychiatric System, and the subject of the award-winning film Healing Neen, a documentary distributed on five continents and based on her life as she moved through multiple systems of care.

After surviving a childhood of unspeakable abuse, unrelenting violence, and betrayal by systems that were charged with helping, Ms. Tonier Cain stands before her audiences today, a testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit exemplifying the innate human instinct to survive. Her experience illustrates the consequences that untreated trauma has on individuals and society at large, including mental health problems, addiction, homelessness, and incarceration. Her story evokes anger, frustration, sadness, and despair.

Cain is the team leader for the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care, with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors as well as a consumer advocate who speaks all over the world on trauma, incarceration, and recovery. She works as a case manager and Director of Advocacy Services for a private non-profit in Annapolis, MD. and was featured in the documentary Behind Closed Doors: Trauma Survivors and the Psychiatric System;

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