Trauma Responsive Care
What is Trauma Responsive Care &
Why is it Important?
An effective System of Care requires a workforce committed to cultivating environments and relationships that foster trauma recovery. Without skills in situational and self-awareness, emotional regulation, and creating cultures of care, providers may unintentionally cause harm or retraumatize the individuals they are seeking to support.
Our Role in Trauma Responsive Care
The Center of Innovation partners with CYFD-Behavioral Health Services and national partners to connect community providers to quality training and coaching focused on growing the capacity to provide trauma-responsive services. Training topics focus on creating supportive treatment environments, taking responsibility for emotional states of providers, and growing an understanding of youth behavior as trauma related survival skills.
Trauma Responsive Care Trainings
The following training series help behavioral health providers and system partners learn and practice the skills necessary to genuinely assist in trauma healing and recovery. All trainings meet the CYFD & HSD Trauma Responsive Training requirements.
- The Crisis Cycle: Restoring Calm When Youth or Adults are Escalated
- Seven Guiding Intentions for Creating a Positive Work Environment
- Trauma Responsive Care: Coaching & Consultation
- Understanding Trauma Impacted Youth’s Survival Skills
- Working with Trauma-Impacted Youth: Creating Safe & Respectful Treatment Environments
Past Trauma Responsive Care Trainings
The following training series have been offered in the past. Sign up for our Newsletter to stay updated on when these and other trainings will be offered.
The Attuned Workforce
Participants will receive an overview of the integration of the Nurtured Heart Approach, stress management and emotional regulation, and organizational culture change.
The Crisis Cycle: Restoring Calm When Youth or Adults are Escalated
When people become emotionally escalated and highly stressed whether in the workplace, in a treatment environment or at home the chance for damaged relationships and danger grows. This training will introduce the crisis cycle to use as a tool to identify safe and well-regulated base line, pre-crisis, crisis and post crisis and the warning signs so staff can prevent escalation and use effective attuned strategies to resort calm and safety.
The Importance of Self-Care for Staff
This training experience will address the vital importance of individuals being well-regulated and trauma attuned in the way they interact with and manage the treatment environment of the milieu. With this knowledge individuals are empowered to create and maintain a trauma attuned culture optimizing the staff and youth feeling safe, supported, and the youth better able to begin the process of trauma recovery.
Ripple Effect: An Integrative Framework for Enhancing Trauma Informed Care
This workshop presents an integrative framework for understanding and communicating across systems about how trauma can affect a child, a family, and a system. The Ripple Effect translates complex trauma concepts using metaphor, visual models, common language, and rich case example and shows: 1) the domains of functioning affected by trauma; 2) the mechanisms through which trauma affects development, and 3) intervention pathways. This workshop offers foundational trauma knowledge for providers learning about evidence-based trauma treatments and highlights ways to share trauma theory with family members and across systems (e.g. schools, child welfare workers, mental health, medical practitioners, police) as we work jointly to lessen the impact of trauma exposure.
Seven Guiding Intentions for Creating a Positive Work Environment
Borrowing from the work of Stephen Covey, John Kotter, Howard Glasser and Marcus Buckingham, this training provides an overview of the seven foundational intentions for formal and informal leaders to adopt that contribute to positive and motivating work cultures for all staff in the clinical environment.
Trauma Responsive Care: Consultation & Collaboration
Trauma responsive care and the Attuned Workforce Approach takes time, attention, and practice. The purpose of the Consultation and Collaboration meetings being offered is to provide more time to elaborate on skills and strategies covered in the Attuned Workforce Trauma Informed trainings we are offering and to address unique challenges you may be experiencing in your residential treatment program. Bring your specific questions, challenges, and success stories to the consultation and collaboration call where Frank Picone is available to answer questions and talk through the needs and potential strategies related to agency-specific concerns.
Twelve Effective Strategies for De-escalating Escalated Children & Adults
Our response to escalated children or adults will either help them calm or escalate them further. This training will share 12 effective ways to interact with escalated youth and adults that will have a calming and de-escalating impact.
Understanding Trauma Impacted Youth’s Survival Skills
This training focuses on understanding of the impact of chronic stress on brain function and behavior of youth impacted by trauma.
Working with Trauma-Impacted Youth: Creating Safe and Respectful Treatment Environments
This training experience will address the vital importance of individuals being well-regulated and trauma attuned in the way they interact with and manage the treatment environment of the milieu. With this knowledge individuals are empowered to create and maintain a trauma attuned culture optimizing the staff and youth feeling safe, supported, and the youth better able to begin the process of trauma recovery.
Resources
- The Institute of Center for Great Expectations – A national leader in building community with trauma-attuned professional development and workforce optimization.
Upcoming Trauma Responsive Care Trainings