Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

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Rev. 5/2019

Training Tips

Training Logistics

∗ Use stories to engage people in learning. ∗ Vary training methods to address a wide variety of learning styles. ∗ People remember what they “feel” far more than what they simply hear or see. ∗ Ask good questions that involve participants’ thinking process to answer. ∗ Keep your knowledge base up to date.

∗ Don’t include slides you won’t be using in your presentation. Customize trainings to fit your group. ∗ Videos are part of the success of this training. Make sure your training roomwill have internet access and sound loud enough so participants can hear. ∗ Self Care – some of the materials presented are difficult to hear or might bring back painful memories from the past in the listeners. Feel free to take breaks as you see the information impacting the hearers.

Module 1

Original SAMHSA Course/Modified

∗ The SAMHSA Key Principles course includes video examples of all the principles. ∗ As stated earlier you need to modify the course to suit your participants. ∗ Train the Trainer provides you with the complete SAMHSA course as well as a few modified options and when you might use each.

∗ As you begin each module, review the objectives that will be covered in the section.

Learning Objectives

Understanding Trauma

After completing this section, you will: ∗ Have a shared understanding of trauma ∗ Be able to identify examples of traumatic events ∗ Understand the effects of trauma on brain development

∗ Things to remember:

∗ Underlying Question: Not “what’s wrong with you?” but “what happened to you?” ∗ Behaviors/Symptoms = Adaptations to trauma ∗ Healing Happens…In caring relationships

Empathy Not Sympathy

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