Trauma Prevention Services

An Overview of Trauma-Informed Care: 

Basic Skills of Trauma-Informed Care: 

Building upon the foundational knowledge in Trauma 101, professionals will delve deeper into understanding trauma dynamics. This training equips participants with specific skills that enhance their ability to engage in emotionally and relationally healthy ways with individuals impacted by trauma. As professionals gain a heightened sense of trauma awareness, they naturally assume the responsibility of preventing, addressing, and responding to traumatic experiences.

Transitioning seamlessly into a hands-on, interactive workshop, this session offers ample opportunities for professionals to implement and practice newly acquired skills. Through active participation, attendees will refine their approach, ensuring their newfound insights translate into tangible, effective interactions.

Recognizing Vicarious & Secondary Trauma for Caregivers:

The role of a caregiver, marked by engagement and empathy, can exact an emotional and physical toll that should not be underestimated. In the face of potential challenges like vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, this training gives caregivers essential insights.

Participants will learn to identify the telltale signs and symptoms associated with each challenge, enabling them to take proactive steps toward well-being. Our interactive workshop goes beyond recognition, focusing on practical skills that foster a resolute commitment to self-care. Through engagement, caregivers can cultivate resilience, ensuring their capacity to deliver impactful support remains steadfast.

This course is expected to be available in the Summer of 2024

Nurturing the Nurturers: 

Caregivers assume pivotal roles when helping children overcome traumatic experiences. Understanding lasting implications of trauma on children is paramount for caregivers. This workshop aims to introduce participants to the influence of trauma and the transformative potential of nurturing relationships in a child's healing process.

Attendees will delve into the intricacies of trauma's impact, shedding light on the underpinnings of children's behaviors and emotions. As caregivers gain insight into the effects of trauma, they are better equipped to support children in managing their emotions and navigating life's challenges. By grasping the dynamics between trauma and behavior, caregivers can create an environment of empathy and empowerment, fostering children's resilience and recovery.

An Introduction to Trauma for Youth:

Cultivating secure and nurturing spaces for youth requires understanding underlying reasons behind human behavior. This workshop will offer essential insights into the effects of trauma and basic elements of brain structure, serving as foundational pillars that enhance youth's self-awareness and understanding of others.

Engaging and interactive, this session revolves around harnessing strengths. It guides youth in identifying their current self while empowering them to set wholesome emotional and relational objectives for their future selves. Youth participate in self-discovery and development, laying the groundwork for resilient growth and holistic well-being.

Trauma-Informed Cultural Sensitivity:

Elevating cultural competence and nurturing cultural humility are pivotal steps in advancing accessibility and the standard of care for traumatized children, families, and communities. Infusing cultural awareness, responsiveness, and understanding at all levels is crucial for effectively addressing the needs of trauma survivors.

Through informative presentations and interactive group activities, participants will uncover dynamics that influence behaviors that shape emotional well-being within individuals and systems. Attendees will delve into the intricacies of cultural sensitivity, fostering an environment of trauma-informed care that is genuinely inclusive and impactful.

Trauma and Racism

(Prerequisite: Trauma 107)

This dynamic workshop delves into the intricate relationship between trauma and racism, building upon the foundations set in Trauma 107.

This training integrates trauma principles to illuminate the profound impact of racism. Participants will gain insights into the active role white individuals and BIPOC communities must take to promote anti-racism and social equality. Opportunities for individual reflection and constructive dialogue have been built into the session to encourage conversation among participants. Ongoing exchange will motivate participants to deliberate actionable measures at both the individual and collective level. Collaboratively, the work will challenge and reshape attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors surrounding race, fostering positive transformation within self, community, and society.

Topics include:

• Implicit Bias and the Neuroscience of Bias
• White Privilege, Colorism, and Microaggressions
• The Intersection of Trauma and Racism
• Reasons to have Hope, including Theory of Change, Social Movement, and Tipping Point
• A.R.C. of Racial Reconciliation
• Constructive, Critical, and Courageous Conversations
• The Myth of Race

Connect with others through our shared experiences of living through a pandemic. This learning session contains valuable information to help participants appreciate our collective experiences and the lingering feelings and emotions from our own individual life experiences. Participants can engage with others creating relational connections where we can address some of the stresses and trauma connected with living through a pandemic. Together, participants will walk through the history of pandemics as a way to put the most recent pandemic into perspective. Viewing the pandemic through a trauma-lens, participants will explore the impact of a pandemic on the brain, recognize the power of altruism, bring meaning from the experiences associated with living through a pandemic and identify where we have power, what we are able to do for ourselves.  Appreciating the impact of a pandemic, both negative and positive, validating individual experiences, thoughts and emotions encourages healing for all of us.