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Located in Santa Cruz, California, the California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care (CCETIC) is committed to helping trauma-exposed people achieve safety, connection, and empowerment. The Center works towards public advocacy and education through white papers that focus on research-based policies and practices, the Stop Trusted Advisor Abuse campaign, and our IRB-approved Unsafe Behaviors Inventory (UBI) pilot study. The Center also works locally with people exposed to trauma by providing groups that specifically address the impact of trauma on the person.

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Trusted advisor abuse occurs when a person in a position of trust—such as a teacher, faith minister, therapist, doctor, nurse, treatment provider, lawyer, coach, yoga instructor, or financial planner—uses that position to abuse and control a patient, client, parishioner, or athlete. The Stop Trusted Advisor Abuse project goals are educating the general public, holding professionals to a higher level of responsibility, ensuring that accountability systems do a better job of policing abuse within their ranks, and protecting those who rely on providers, whether in publicly or privately funded systems.

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Gabriella Grant Consulting (GGC) works to transform publicly funded programs and systems by strengthening their understanding of the broad effects of trauma and providing education on measures to increase safety in the behavior, lives, and communities of all Californians. GGC provides training on a wide variety of topics relevant to the multi-faceted experiences of trauma-exposed populations. GGC also provides services to agencies wishing to develop a trauma-informed framework, including program design, policies, staff development, and data collection and measures.

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Stay updated on trauma informed care.

View the ACE Study Preview (3:00) from AVA

See the full Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study “online collaborative learning” collection at avahealth.org

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Safety Before Trust Podcast

CCETIC’s inaugural podcast explains the concept of trusted advisor abuse and examines a case study.

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White Papers and Guides

CCETIC produces white papers, information guides, lists, and bibliographies highlighting specific aspects of trauma informed care.

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What is trauma informed care?

Trauma informed care is an approach or framework related to delivering services that acknowledges the impact of trauma and attempts to create a sense of safety within the program. Trauma-informed transformation is a cultural shift, a move toward safety-focused, strength-based, consumer-driven, empowerment-rich programming that allows consumers to take charge of their recovery, addresses unsafe behaviors and prioritizes safety as a platform for recovery.

Trauma informed programs train and support staff to understand the effects of trauma broadly on the population being served and over the lifespan. They assess their program design and policies to ensure that safety is at the core and that potential for re-traumatization is reduced. They also approach critical incidents and problems from a trauma informed perspective to see how to change approaches, such as rules or responses, to prevent escalation, drop-outs, removals, seclusion, restraint and other behaviors that traditionally have been understood as single problems in need of punishment or elimination. Trauma informed programs value consumer input, participation, and inclusion in decision making and staffing. Trauma informed programs recognize that information and choice are the key to empowerment, rather than experts telling people what they should be doing and then deciding if people have passed or failed.

All publicly funded programs can be trauma informed. This is especially true for social services, such as programs addressing mental health, substance abuse, child welfare, foster care, domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness and criminal justice, but also schools, hospitals, libraries, public transportation, environmental health and animal control. Where public money is spent, higher rates of trauma and trauma-related behaviors are more likely to compromise safety and behavioral change. Therefore, understanding the impact of trauma improves programming and services and makes them more cost-effective for taxpayers.

Trauma specific services have the primary task of addressing the impact of trauma and facilitating trauma recovery. Any agency can choose to become trauma specific. However, if an agency is conducting trauma specific interventions without assessing itself for trauma informed practice, the likelihood of that intervention working is reduced considerably.

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California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care
Santa Cruz, California
Phone: (831) 607-9835
Email: traumainformedcalifornia@gmail.com

To request a training or consultation, please email Gabriella Grant at traumainformedcalifornia@gmail.com, put Request for Training in the subject line, and provide the name of your agency and the contact person’s name, email address, and phone number.