Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Tra ma I formed Care Trai the Trainer

Rev. 5/2019

Dr Brené Brown is a research professor and best-selling author of "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead" (Penguin Portfolio, 2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw&feature=youtu.be

Empathy

∗ Understanding empathy is one of the most important keys to providing trauma informed care.

∗ Perspective taking – see from their side ∗ Stay out of judgment ∗ Recognize emotion in other people ∗ Communicate this recognition ∗ Empathy = feeling WITH people

Give an Example of Empathy in Action

What is Trauma? The 3-E’s

∗ Tell a brief story about Principal Jim Sporleder ∗ Lincoln Alternative High School – Walla Walla, Washington ∗ Learned about Trauma-Informed Care and had staff trained as well ∗ Reconfigured in-school suspension (ISS) – softer lights, paint and furnishings ∗ 2009-2010 – 798 suspensions/2010-2011 after TIC – 135 suspensions ∗ 2010 – 9 graduated/2011 – 60 graduated

Individual trauma results from an event , a series of events, or set of circumstances experienced by an individual that are physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that have lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.

Potential Traumatic Events

Experience of Trauma Affected by

Abuse

Loss

Chronic Stressors

It is an individual’s experience of the event, not necessarily the event itself that is traumatizing.

∗ How ∗ When ∗ Where ∗ How Often

Emotional

Death, Abandonment Poverty

Sexual/Physical Domestic violence Witnessing violence

Neglect

Racism

Separation

Invasive medical procedure

Natural disaster

Community trauma Historical trauma

Bullying

Accidents Terrorism

Cyberbullying

Family member with substance use disorder or incarcerated

Institutional

War

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