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Trauma Informed Care (Virtual)
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OUTLINE
- Theoretical Framework for Understanding Trauma
- Defining trauma and its systemic impacts.
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
- Introduction to trauma-informed approaches.
- Fight, flight, freeze, faint, and fawn responses.
- How triggers work.
- The window of tolerance model.
- Principles of Trauma-Informed Care
- 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 in helping professions.
- Preventing burnout and compassion fatigue.
- Trauma-Informed Organizations
- How organizational contexts can perpetuate trauma.
- Characteristics of a trauma-informed/trauma-aware organization.
- Organizational examples in which participants recommend trauma-informed changes.
Please email hello@oaksmentalhealth.ca for assistance with group registrations, or if you wish to use an alternative payment method. Group discounts and student discounts are available on a case-by-case basis.Â
NOTE: This course involves a significant amount of group work. If you are apprehensive about the idea of group work due to social anxiety or any other concern, please notify us. We would be happy to accommodate you as best we can.
Cara Taylor, BSW, MSW, RSW.
Cara Taylor (she/her), founder of Oaks Mental Health, is a mental health educator with over a decade of social work experience in the mental health field. Her professional and personal experiences—including living with mental illness and surviving suicide loss—inform her compassionate, person-centered approach. Cara’s trainings foster empathy, reduce stigma, and blend clinical insight with lived experience to promote collective care.
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