Trauma can affect how people communicate, build relationships, respond to stress, make decisions, and experience services and systems.
Trauma-Informed Foundations helps participants understand trauma and recognize how it may appear in youth, adults, colleagues, community members, and themselves. The training introduces practices grounded in physical and emotional safety, trust, transparency, choice, collaboration, and dignity.
The training recognizes that trauma may be individual, cumulative, historical, collective, and systemic. Participants are never required to disclose personal experiences or revisit traumatic events.
This training is appropriate for organizations, professionals, and community members beginning trauma-informed learning or seeking shared understanding across roles.
It is especially relevant in education, health and behavioral health, justice and reentry, government, social services, youth programs, and community-based organizations.
Completing one training does not make an organization trauma-informed. The training builds a foundation. Organizational change requires continued learning and changes to relationships, environments, policies, practices, and accountability.
Understanding trauma is an important beginning. The next step is learning how to consistently apply trauma-informed principles to communication, services, relationships, environments, policies, and organizational decisions.
Our learning experiences can be tailored to meet the needs of your organization, team, or community.
Whether you’re beginning this work, responding to a specific challenge, or looking to deepen an existing commitment, we’ll work with you to identify an approach that makes sense for your people and your goals.
