Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

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Rev. 5/2019

Trauma-Informed Approach

Healing Begins

A few times throughout the training you want to emphasize the following points: ∗ Trauma-Informed care serves as a strategy to help service providers gain the awareness, knowledge, and skills to better support individuals. ∗ This approach prompts service providers to be aware of the recipient’s psychological and emotional needs rather than just provide resources. ∗ It necessitates that service providers approach recipients from a perspective of empathy that rejects ideologies of individual blame for life issues that have instead been created by many factors.

∗ One of the most important messages you can give a trauma survivor is that what happened, happened to them. It doesn’t mean they caused it. ∗ One of the most important things you can do for trauma survivors is to give them a chance to tell their stories. ∗ Healing starts when a person’s personal experience is heard and validated. ∗ Remember empathy! ∗ Perspective taking – see from their side ∗ Stay out of judgment ∗ Recognize emotion in other people

∗ Communicate this recognition ∗ Empathy = feeling WITH people

Learning Objectives

Module 2

After completing this section, you will: ∗ Understand ACEs ∗ Recognize the Prevalence of Trauma ∗ Hear a Survivor’s Story

Understanding ACE and The Prevalence of Trauma in the Lives of Those We Serve

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

ACEs Primer

ACEs Primer ∗ This video provides a clear, concise overview of what ACEs are. In your discussion relate to this knowledge as ACEs science. Conclusive research shows ACE scores are a predictive indicator of future health and risk behaviors. ∗ ACEs science has appeared in at least 1,120 in psychological abstracts and 1,420 in PubMed as of this month. Many of those overlap, but we can be confident there are over 1,000.

∗ The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. ∗ The study was a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente's Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego. ∗ The initial phase of the ACE Study was conducted at Kaiser Permanente from 1995 to 1997.

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