Trauma-Informed Culturally Responsive Care

Training & Education Program

What To Do During Times of Collective Trauma?

Leading organizations during times of collective trauma (COVID-19 and Racial Trauma) is especially challenging for all levels of leadership, staff, and clients. We believe it is important to have a strategy of how to respond and support an organization through this difficult time. This pandemic and increasing racial tension have caused all human beings to pause and reflect on what is most important in life. Some of the issues your team might be bringing up have been there before and you may have tried traditional forms of yearly trainings on specific topics.

Why Learn Trauma-Informed Culturally Responsive Care?

This is a unique opportunity to address the crisis at hand, while also investing in a strategy and framework that will sustain beyond just this moment. However, for the next one to two years we will likely be continue to deal with service delivery adjustments and/or changes to work flows as a result of COVID-19. The work of being responsive to staff and clients historical, intergenerational, systemic, and personal trauma is truly a life-long endeavor. A Trauma-Informed Culturally Responsive Care Framework teaches staff how to recognize signs of vicarious trauma and burnout while also being more attentive to the trauma their clients have endured.

What Does it Mean to Be…

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an organization is proactively integrating meaningful attention to the cultural identities of clients and staff, and to the ways culture can shape people’s experiences of trauma and healing. Being culturally responsive also means systematically integrating awareness of culture into our services, policies, structures, and environments.

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an organization that actively works to decrease retraumatization and support resilience, healing, and well-being. Additionally, trauma-informed organizations recognize ongoing and historical experiences of discrimination and oppression, and are committed to changing the conditions that contribute to the existence of abuse and violence in people’s lives. A trauma-informed approach provides guidance on how trauma can affect people’s experience of services and what we can do to reduce traumatization at every level of our organizations.

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Organizational Analysis

Don’t know where to start? We are happy to provide a needs assessment of your organization, which includes focus groups, policy analysis, and strategy development. Recommendations for how to select a package from offerings below will also be discussed. Ready to start? Great! We will give you options that best fit your organizations needs. At the end of Trauma Informed Culturally Responsive Training and Education program, we will assist in guiding best practices for policy changes and implementation so you can show the community, board, staff, and clients you are committed to sustained change.

Webinars

One-hour, topic focused for skill building. These are great for a deeper dive on the skill building of how to actively behave in a Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive manner. This modality does not include a group discussion. Leadership and Counseling Col:lab Coaches will be in communication about follow-up needs and training.

Group Training

2-day, Full-day, or 1/2-day interactive group trainings to engage with the basic concepts of Trauma-Informed Culturally Responsive Care. The complete training is 16 hours long, but can be divided into sections to accommodate the needs of the agency.

Self-Study and Discussion Groups

This option breaks up the components of the group training into smaller lessons that can be watched at a team member’s own pace on their own time. This requires each participant to spend 30 min a day either watching, reading, and/or self-reflecting. Virtual weekly one hour affinity group discussions, led by a Col:lab Coach will take place to facilitate understanding, processing, and practicing the Trauma-Informed Skills of active listening and self-regulation. We recommend no more than 10 people per group. Groups last 2-8 weeks depending on the subject. Pre and post surveys will be administered to monitor learning objectives and progress toward organizational goals. To create the safest spaces possible, we recommend structuring Affinity Groups.

Leadership Coaching

For those leaders who want a more intense and personal growth experience, Counseling Col:lab, offers an individualized coaching series focused on raising awareness of leadership patterns, increasing a leader’s emotional agility and ability to navigate change and communicate effectively. Organizations frequently pair coaching with training to maximize impact and growth.

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