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Part 1 (2 hours)
Part 2 (2 hours)
This training focuses on aspects to improve the co-occurring treatment of trauma and substance use disorder issues as well as the integration of both issues when only one condition is under treatment. Using the standards from SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach and TIP 57, attendees will have a strong set of skills to treat clients who struggle with historically challenging yet far too common conditions. Evidence-based practices will be identified and foundational skills will be practiced during the training.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
This training will enhance clinicians’ skills for discussing unsafe behaviors in a safe manner without victim-blaming. It reviews data on clinical use of a tool to measure unsafe behaviors (UBI-Y) and explores the safety drive biological imperative within the framework of Polyvagal Theory by Porges. Attendees will learn how to build clients’ safety skills using the “It Makes Sense” activity and the Anytime Safe Action Plan worksheet.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
Designed to teach clinical professionals active skills to work effectively with trauma-exposed clients, this training asks attendees to examine de-escalation as a key safety skill for any clinical professional working in publicly funded systems. It introduces the historical and California-based context related to elimination of seclusion and restraining (S/R) techniques within mental health, group home and school-based services. While invisible to the broader public, misuse of S/R is rampant in the few instances where investigation has been conducted. A commitment to reducing S/R and all harmful practices is at the heart of trauma-informed services.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
This training gives providers a research-based understanding of eating disorders, their cultural role, and how to treat eating disorders (primary, secondary and tertiary). Attendees will gain skills to discuss disordered eating and exercise in safety-focused ways that also facilitate trauma recovery. Ideally, attendees apply these concepts to themselves first, so that they can more clearly work with clients’ disordered eating and exercise issues.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
This training will introduce the recent evidence related to trauma-related causes of problem gambling and other financially risky behaviors.  We will investigate the intersection between unsafe money-related behaviors (such as excessive gambling, shopping, substance use, sex addiction, binge eating and many others) and trauma exposure—specifically childhood sexual abuse and intergenerational trauma.  By understanding the primary drivers of financially risky behaviors, counselors and peers will be able to work with clients in a safer and less blaming manner.  Attendees will actively practice a technique to measure unsafe behaviors.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
This training provides a framework to enhance parenting safety with a focus on fathers. A research-based overview, it focuses on safety, child abuse law, casework practice and the interaction between parenting and the impact of trauma and disaster on both the child and parent. It considers emerging research into the intergenerational transmission of trauma as well as practice approaches to help parents increase both physical and emotional safety with their interactions with their children.

Part 1: Gender Matters for Criminal Justice Outcomes (2 hours)
Part 2: Trauma Informed Approaches Address Trauma Themes (2 hours)
This training explores two frameworks for service providers when working with incarcerated or released women. In Part 1, trends of incarceration by gender and race provide a historical birds-eye view to then focus on gendered differences among incarcerated people in more recent times. Evidence of unique patterns within female populations is explored. Gender-responsive standards, as delineated by Covington and Owens, are reviewed to allow attendees to assess their services—both areas of strengths and weaknesses. In Part 2, trauma exposure specific to having an incarcerated family member is explored, uncovering a unique trauma-related factor that can be addressed within programming. The standards of trauma-informed care, according to SAMHSA, are reviewed as well as several specific curricula, Beyond Trauma, Helping Women Recover, Seeking Safety, etc., for incarcerated women.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
This training allows participants to uncover the similarities and differences between grief and trauma. By using a Venn diagram and adapting the work of Steele (1999) participants will appreciate the human experience of grief (not a diagnosis) from trauma, which often results in a diagnosis, health condition or social problem. Next participants will be able to understand the intersection between grief and trauma, which often results in traumatic grief due to an ambiguous loss.

Part 1 (2 hours)
Part 2 (2 hours)
This training explores the research between trauma exposure, specifically in childhood, and later-in-life unsafe hoarding behaviors. Focusing on “forcible removal” as a traumatic exposure, this training offers voluntary agreements as an underutilized strategy to address safety issues related to hoarding.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
Homelessness is both caused by trauma and is a symptom of trauma. By focusing shelter or program rules on safety, empowerment, and addressing unsafe behavior in a compassionate manner, agencies working on addressing homelessness in their communities can improve client outcomes, create safer shelters, and reduce staff burnout. (This training can be taught as a stand-alone 90-minute training seminar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 2 of a combined series that includes Housing and Other Essential Services as Part 1 and Rules as Part 3.)

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
Housing, sheltering and residential facilities face unique challenges when providing services to clients who are also residents. Designed to offer housing agencies and staff a structure for applying trauma-informed practices to housing-related situations, this webinar is an agency-wide introduction to foundational steps for creating an organizational culture of trauma-informed transformation. (This training can be taught as a stand-alone 90-minute webinar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 1 of a combined series that includes Trauma and Homelessness as Part 2 and Rules as Part 3.)

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
Neurobiology shows that traumatic events affect the brain at the time of the event and over the lifespan. Once the neurobiology of trauma is understood, through a user-friendly approach, staff and agencies can better understand client reactions, better understand how to minimize re-traumatization and triggering interaction, and know how to use neurobiology to create safety and connection.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
Using a research-based analysis, this training provides all professionals with a foundation in the phenomenon of trauma-induced dissociation. Once considered rare, current researchers indicate that it is in fact very common among trauma survivors who self-injure or engage in other compulsive, unsafe behaviors. Safety aspects will be the focus. Safety skills will be provided and practiced to be able to safely end dissociative episodes without relying on dangerous and painful techniques.

Part 1 (2 hours)
Part 2 (2 hours)
This training provides a framework to enhance parenting safety. A research-based overview, it focuses on safety, child abuse law, casework practice and the interaction between parenting and the impact of trauma and disaster on both the child and parent. It considers emerging research into the intergenerational transmission of trauma as well as practice approaches to help parents increase both physical and emotional safety in their interactions with their children.

Part 1 (2 hours)
Part 2 (2 hours)
Part 3 (2 hours)
This training covers the current research regarding PTSD and Complex Trauma. It allows participants to have a familiarity with trauma-related terms, identify trauma symptoms, and identify responses that can exacerbate or alleviate trauma responses.

Part 1: Trauma Informed Foundations (2 hours)
Part 2: Safety Planning (2 hours)
This training provides a research-based understanding that supports active safety skills building and planning for youth at risk of CSEC (commercial sexual exploitation of children) and other coercive labor practices. It offers practitioners, whether clinicians or not, safety-based interventions to help young people recognize exploitation and coercion. Using a safety plan, professionals can measure risk reductions to help youth navigate their current circumstances. Attendees are requested to read the Sexual Assault Revictimization Risk Reduction white paper before the training.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
This training seminar looks at themes related to rules and trauma. It teaches a decision-tree to objectively write rules for trauma-exposed individuals, especially when the program frequently uses consequences, exiting, and other punishments for rule breaking. Participants are offered an opportunity to transform a broken rule from their program or home. (This training can be taught as a stand-alone 90-minute training seminar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 3 of a combined series that includes Housing and Other Essential Services as Part 1 and Trauma and Homelessness as Part 2.)

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
This training teaches sexual assault victim advocates active skills to work effectively with sexual assault victims. Attendees will learn best practices related to safety planning to prompt a clear set of response actions before, during, and after a sexual assault.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
This training provides a research-based understanding that supports active safety skills building and planning. It offers practitioners, whether clinicians or not, safety-based interventions to help people through difficult situations, particularly related to suicidal crisis and domestic violence situations. Attendees will be able to use scaling to measure danger levels to help people navigate their current circumstances and how to use the Anytime Safe Action Plan worksheet.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
This training is designed to provide participants with an integrated understanding of trauma-informed frameworks.  Guided by SAMHSA’s TIP 57 (2014), this training explores the scientific foundations of the trauma exposure, including neurophysiological, developmental, immunological, and epigenetic impacts.  Participants will examine epidemiological data linking trauma exposure to substance use and mental health conditions.  The training also introduces creative and experiential approaches to treatment, drawing in the three phases of trauma recovery (Herman, 1997), with a focus on enhancing safety, reducing risk of re-traumatization, and supporting adaptive responses to real-world stressors.

Part 1: The Self (2 hours)
Part 2: The Environment (2 hours)
This training is designed to promote standards of self care within trauma-informed organizations and systems. Using the Harris and Fallot “impact of trauma work” model, this training looks at the impact of primary trauma on the workforce and its role in the development of work-related trauma symptoms. Attendees will be able to assess themselves, create a self care plan and experience an active demonstration of self care during the training.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
This training explores the research showing spirituality as an evidence-based practice for trauma recovery. The information provides ethical guidelines for publicly funded employees to bring safety to spiritual practices, as determined by the client. The second part of the training looks at spiritual abuse as a unique traumatic exposure that might get missed in the publicly funded system: how to report, how to support and how to connect survivors to safe groups and peers.

Part 1 (2 hours)
Part 2 (2 hours)
This training provides approaches for understanding trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD as keys to working with individuals at risk for suicide or self harm. It considers how a trauma informed framework helps services prevent suicide and self harm in trauma-exposed populations and how to develop a relapse prevention intervention that addresses suicide.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
Trauma informed communication aims to build clinical skills specifically to address unsafe behaviors in a safe manner without victim-blaming. Based on a client-centered approach, it incorporates how speech develops over the lifespan and how trauma interrupts that development. The training reviews communication theory (Watzlawick, 1967), explores the safety drive within the Polyvagal theoretical framework (Porges, 2009) and presents the “It Makes Sense” technique designed to gain client agreement to build safety skills.

One-part seminar (4 hours)
This training provides participants, managers, line staff, and administrators with key elements of what a trauma informed program looks like (and does not look like). It follows the 2001 “Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems” framework, as well as providing resources for assessing and transforming agencies to become more trauma informed.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
Designed to teach clinical professionals active skills to work effectively with trauma-exposed clients, this training seminar asks attendees to examine grounding as a key safety skill for any clinical professional working in publicly funded systems. Attendees will be able to use scaling to measure danger levels and use sensory awareness/grounding practices to detach from overwhelming emotions.

One-part training seminar (2 hours)
This training offers an overview of both harm reduction and trauma-informed services as related to substance use and related health conditions. Both frameworks share a public health foundation, which allows for a stronger understanding of both approaches. By joining the puzzle pieces together, a clearer public health, harm reduction, trauma-informed program can be developed and enhanced. As a result, professionals will be able to more clearly see commonalities between substance use and trauma and use safety as a pathway toward stronger outcomes for clients.

One-part training seminar (4 hours)
This training provides an overview of the six key steps for development of a trauma informed program. It provides resources for assessing and transforming agencies to become more trauma informed and teaches how to write an organization’s statement of commitment to trauma informed care. Attendees are asked to develop or find their agency’s statement of commitment; connect it to policies on universal precautions and disclosure of private, protected, personal information; eliminate jargon; and use the teach-back method to promote health literacy by confirming understanding.