Is Your Organization Trauma-Informed?
Trauma contributes to chronic health issues that impact staff’s ability to be present, productive, and perform job tasks. Trauma-informed organizations work to reduce and aim to eliminate policies and practices that might traumatize and re-traumatize its employees and its clients.
"A program, organization, or system that is trauma-informed realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery; recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families, staff, and others involved with the system; and responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices, and seeks to actively resist re-traumatization."
What Is Trauma-Informed and How Does It Apply to My Business?
According SAMHSA, Trauma-informed organizations work to eliminate policies and practices that might traumatize and re-traumatize its clients and employees. Organizations achieve this through a careful process that includes input from a range of stakeholders, including people who have survived trauma in their lives. These organizations also become mindful of trauma triggers—events that might activate conscious and unconscious memories of and defenses against the effects of trauma.
Trauma has emerged as an important public health concern because it has long-term adverse effects upon physical health and mental health.
Health and behavioral healthcare professionals who provide care to the traumatized often have their own experience with trauma. They also experience the effects of secondary (or vicarious) trauma through the behaviors, stories, and struggles of people they encounter and are assigned to help.
Hope Ignited uses THE SIX CORE PRINCIPLES of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), as defined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to inform its work, trainings, consultations, and business strategy.
The six Core Principles:
Safety
Trustworthiness & Transparency
Peer Support
Collaboration & Mutuality
Empowerment, Voice & Choice
Cultural, Historical, & Gender Issues
Our organizational trainings aim to:
Identify work-place issues, increase effective team functioning, and decrease hire/re-hire patterns for successful work-flow and sustained productivity.
When you look at your employee as a person with a story, you may begin to recognize their value differently and how they can best contribute to your company!
Corporate Trainings by request
Become a Trauma-Informed Organization
Workplace Burnout
Increasing Productivity (Management Training)
Developing an Effective Team
Managing Tragedy on your Team
Grief and Loss
Strategic Planning
Employee Self-Care Initiative
Effective Communication in the Workplace
Retreat Planning
Professional Trainings by Request
Become a Trauma-Informed Organization
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Human Trafficking 101
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Trauma-Informed Practices
Brain-Based and Body Focused Interventions for Survivors of Complex Trauma
Vicarious Trauma- When Helpers Need Help
Child Sexual Abuse: Assessment, Treatment, and Recovery
Combating Burnout: Why Boundaries Are the Plan You Need
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