Becoming Trauma Informed: How to Apply the Principles of Trauma Informed Care to Your Life, Work and Community
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Course Description: While "trauma" has made its way into mainstream discourse, most people don't really understand trauma, how it manifests in the body, and how it impacts human behavior and our communities. This course will teach you that, and so much more. It consists of 10 video modules PLUS a bonus module for educators and a bonus module for evaluators.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Explain how individual, collective, racial, climate, and intergenerational trauma effect you, other people and communities
Recognize the impacts of trauma and display greater sensitivity and deeper understanding
Apply the principles of trauma-informed care to your life, work and community
Throughout the course, you'll be asked to reflect on various prompts and write in your personal journal. You will have access to outside readings and videos to deepen your learning.
TESTIMONIALS ABOUT TRAUMA COURSE
I am well-familiar with trauma (my ACES is 5), but this webinar is helpful for me to organize what I know and think even more deeply about how it fits with my work. I’m doing more and more around racism and equity and working with coalitions.
My son, a police officer, is off work right now battling PTSD. He was in a special facility in California for a month just before things shut down. I went out to see him there and met his therapist. He is processing 18 separate traumatic events – the most she has seen among any officer. He was a street cop and then detective for domestic violence, detective for child abuse, and school resource officer. He will be unable to return to police work, and is first having to go through some specialized therapy to manage the PTSD, then will have to rethink his entire career. Fortunately, he is with a department that supports officers’ mental health needs.
So lately, trauma has once again played a HUGE role in my life. This webinar is really firing up my synapses to think about how we fail to recognize its role in so much of our programming and policy. So, as an evaluator, I need to think about how I can influence some change.
Susan Wolfe
Thank you for your thoughtful and obviously very well-crafted webinar. It was a pleasure to participate in something so well done. I am very familiar with trauma but only through personal experience and an individual recovery lens--applying it in a systems and framework sort of way to my work makes so much sense and feels incredibly timely. I wanted to reach out to you because you called out both of my comments and I suspect we might be happy collaborators:
I was the one who wrote about the Frameworks and ToCs we build and activate needing to shift and curious about how the practices of evaluation might contribute to healing and living into that inquiry. Could we maybe set up a phone conversation? I'm interested in co-developing a webinar on either/both of these topics to begin offering. I also have a few ideas for ways to apply the trauma-informed concepts specifically for an international development (my current space of practice as a consultant in design/evaluation) audience and would welcome your thoughts and collaboration if you are interested.
Anna Martin
Dear Martha,
One of my colleagues at Abt Associates attended your recent AEA training on trauma-informed care training for evaluators and reported that it was one of the best trainings she’s taken in her career. I co-lead an internal group at Abt that focuses on our staff’s professional development in qualitative and mixed methods and we’re very interested in bringing your excellent content to more of our colleagues here at Abt. I’m hoping you can tell me about your offerings for such an event. If you have a summary of formats/lengths and target audiences, I’d be happy to look at it, or to hop on the phone to talk about presentation or training options and tell you more about Abt’s staff and work.
Best regards,
Anna Jefferson