In today’s world trauma has affected almost everyone directly or indirectly. Often these trauma survivors are unintentionally re-victimized by well-meaning people who just don’t know how to minimize or eliminate further harm. This 1-hour Trauma-Informed Care course is aimed at non-clinical service providers who work with children, adolescents, and adults in any setting. Participants will learn how to identify various responses to stress; recognize reactions to trauma triggers; understand how to develop and support resilience, and identify ways of interacting with and helping trauma survivors.

Course Outline

• Types of Stress: Positive/Negative
• Reactions to Trauma: Fight or Flight
• Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
• Resilience
• What is Trauma-Informed Care: – Creating Safety; Teaching Self-Calming Skills; Building Relationships
• Interventions and Techniques
• Manipulation or Misunderstanding
• Trauma Triggers
• All Behavior Serves a Purpose
• Maintained Behaviors
• Ways of Expressing Anger
• Reframing
• Vicarious and Secondary Trauma