Moving from Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Responsive

Provides program administrators and clinical directors with key resources needed to train staff and make organisational changes to become trauma-responsive. This comprehensive training program involves all staff, ensuring clients are served with a trauma-responsive approach.

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While many organizations are trauma-informed, becoming trauma-responsive means looking at every aspect of an organization’s programming, environment, language, and values and involving all staff in better serving clients who have experienced trauma.

Moving from Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Responsive provides program administrators and clinical directors with the resources needed to train staff and make organizational changes to become trauma responsive. This comprehensive training program involves all staff, ensuring clients are served with a trauma-responsive approach at every interaction.

With this 10-step training, your team will:

Gain knowledge of stress, adversity, and trauma
Understand of the impact of organizational stress and trauma
Understand the concept and structure of a Guide Team
Assess and improve clients’ first experience with your organization
Assess and improve your organization’s physical space
Assess and improve your organization’s sense of safety
Understand the leadership qualities and skills needed to initiate trauma-responsive organizational change
Create a shared language and tools to address trauma
Implement evidence-based, trauma-specific curricula
Have each staff person create a personal self-care plan

Moving from Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Responsive includes:

More than three hours of video
A Flash Drive with resources that can be easily reproduced for training participants
A facilitator guide with step-by-step instructions to assist facilitators in implementing the ten-step process of becoming trauma-responsive



Video includes Spanish subtitles.