Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Educating System of Care Partners

these homogeneous groups, we tailor examples and pictures to them (e.g., child examples and pictures of elementary teachers, poverty examples and pictures for organizations that work with homeless individuals). The content remains the same. We have described these tailored trainings in more depth in Chapter 4 Aim High to Reach All . In recent months, Becky Haas has been coaching other cities within Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and beyond in developing trauma informed systems of care, by using this exact same method and training process. At the beginning of this toolkit, you can find endorsements from those now using this model with success. In Chapter 4 Aim High to Reach All there is discussion of specialized two hour trainings now developed for educating professionals in healthcare, law enforcement, and education. After training community partners for a year, it quickly became apparent we needed two things. We needed additional trainers in order to meet the growing demand for training in additional organizations and we recognized the organizations we had trained previously needed the ability to offer ongoing training to new employees or volunteers instead of having us to come and conduct training again year after year. This is how the “Trauma Informed Approach – Key Principles and Assumptions; Train the Trainer” course was born, also with approval of NCTIC. The trainer course is six hours long. Often we find a sponsor to provide a free lunch to the attendees for this event. Lunch together allows time for networking among organization representatives, furthering the idea of forming a system of care. The trainer course includes all of the slides from the 4-hour general training, with slides interspersed that explain the “why or what” behind the content on each slide and give speaker’s notes and stories used for illustration. A copy of the Train the Trainer course is provided in this toolkit. 2-Hour Specialized Training 6-Hour Train-the-Trainer

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