While many organizations are trauma-informed, becoming trauma-responsive means looking at every aspect of an organization’s programming, environment, language, and values and involving all staff in better serving clients who have experienced trauma.
Moving from Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Responsive provides program administrators and clinical directors with key resources needed to train staff and make organizational changes to become trauma-responsive. This comprehensive training program involves all staff, ensuring clients are served with a trauma-responsive approach.
Objectives:
- Identify three examples of “Big T” and “little t” stressors
- Describe two of the major findings from the ACE study relating childhood experience to substance use and mental
health impairment.
- Perform at least one technique for engaging consumers in a trauma informed approach.
- Describe at least one impact of trauma on cognition and physiological functioning.
- Identify one Domain of Trauma-Informed Care and how, organizationally, activating this domain enhances trauma care.