Part 1: Steps One Through Three (90 minutes)
Part 2: Steps Four Through Six (90 minutes)
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.

Part 1 (90 minutes)
Part 2 (90 minutes)
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.

Part 1 (90 minutes)
Part 2 (90 minutes)
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 (90 minutes)
Part 2 (90 minutes)
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.

Part 1: Distinguishing Grief and Loss, Trauma, PTSD (90 minutes)
Part 2: Complex trauma, C-PTSD and Developmental Trauma (90 minutes)
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 (90 minutes)
Part 2 (90 minutes)
This training focuses on aspects to improve the co-occurring treatment of trauma and substance abuse issues as well as the integration of both issues when only one condition is under treatment. Using the standards from SAMHSA’s TIP 57 and Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach, 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.

Part 1: The Self (90 minutes)
Part 2: The Environment (90 minutes)
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.

Part 1 (90 minutes)
Part 2 (90 minutes)
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.

Part 1: Gender Matters for Criminal Justice Outcomes (90 minutes)
Part 2: Trauma Informed Approaches Address Trauma Themes (90 minutes)
This training explores two frameworks for service providers when working with incarcerated or released women. In the first webinar, 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 the second webinar, 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.

Part 1: Trauma Informed Foundations (90 minutes)
Part 2: Safety Planning (90 minutes)
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 webinar.

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 that includes Trauma and Homelessness as Part 2 and Rules as Part 3.)

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 webinar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 2 of a combined series that includes Foundations (Housing and Essential Services) as Part 1 and Rules as Part 3.)

This training 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 webinar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 3 of a combined series that includes Foundations (Housing and Essential Services) as Part 1 and Trauma and Homelessness as Part 2.)

This 90-minute training provides a framework for understanding sex work and its regulation models. Using a review of four separate models along with considerations of the rights of sex workers and key distinctions between commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), human trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor and adult sex work, the framework settles on the agreed-upon approach to sex work within a feminist framework. Called “decriminalization” of sex work, this policy proves to be the safest for all those who have been sexually coerced or exploited. The training then provides overall recommendations for increasing safety by using universal precautions around trauma exposure and sexual coercion and exploitation. (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 Sex Work: Safety Planning as Part 2 and Trauma and Sex Work: Sexual Exploitation and Coercion Scale as Part 3.)

This 90-minute training introduces “anytime” Safety Planning skills with a specific focus on sex work. It includes a discussion of known trauma-related risk factors for sexual victimization and revictimization and provides a public health model context for safety planning around any situation where acquaintances, substance use, and/or sexual encounters are a possibility. (This training can be taught as a stand-alone 90-minute webinar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 2 of a combined series that includes Trauma and Sex Work: Universal Precautions as Part 1 and Trauma and Sex Work: Sexual Exploitation and Coercion Scale as Part 3.)

This 90-minute training focuses on de-escalation and using the Sexual Exploitation and Coercion Scale. It explains Neuroception as the constant and continuous appraisal of safety, danger and life threat and introduces risk reduction skills, encouraging survivors to self-assess threat in environments using internal and external cues. Participants will learn how to work with survivors in rating their own definitions of sexual coercion using the Scale. (This training can be taught as a stand-alone 90-minute webinar and is also developed so that it can be presented as Part 3 of a combined series that includes Trauma and Sex Work: Universal Precautions as Part 1 and Trauma and Sex Work: Safety Planning as Part 2.)

This 90-minute 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.

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. This 90-minute 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.

This 90-minute 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.

Designed to teach clinical professionals active skills to work effectively with trauma-exposed clients, this 90-minute training asks attendees to examine de-escalation, safety planning and grounding as key safety skills 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, as well as learning about safety planning and using the Anytime Safe Action Plan worksheet.

This 90-minute 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.