Trauma Informed Care (Saskatoon)

1. Theoretical Framework for Understanding Trauma

• Defining trauma

• How trauma impacts relationships, neurobiology, cognition, emotions, and spirituality

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

• The difference between mental illness and a trauma response

• The window of tolerance model

• Fight, flight, freeze, faint, and fawn responses

2. Organizational/Systemic Forms of Trauma

• How organizational contexts can perpetuate trauma

• Characteristics of a trauma-informed/trauma-aware organization

• Organizational case studies in which participants identify problems and recommend changes based on a trauma-informed approach

3. Trauma-Informed Practitioners

• Specific examples of practice that perpetuate or exacerbate trauma responses

• Recognizing and responding compassionately to trauma responses

• Practically applying the principles of trauma-informed care

• Preventing burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in helping professionals

• Direct practice case studies which participants identify problems and recommend changes based on a trauma-informed approach