Trauma Informed Care

Registration deadline 2/6/2025

Virtual/Zoom

Trainer:

Rebecca Miller, MPH, MS brings over 5 years of Environmental Health & Safety emergency response, nearly 3 years in community-based participatory research, and over a decade in trauma-informed care giving lived-experience to the trauma-informed care practitioner space. Rebecca Miller joined the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center in April 2022. She accepted the position as project director of the Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project (CAAPP) in an effort to help create and drive novel patient-centered strategies for community intervention. Accordingly, Rebecca serves as a facilitator and bridge between community members, researchers, clinicians, and institutional partners in order to help provide the educational and care-centered resources required to increase prostate cancer screening and awareness in the Black community. Rebecca has also instructed two courses at Case Western Reserve University, Topics in Urban Health in the United States and Health Education Advocacy Link (H.E.A.L): A Comprehensive Training for Health Professional Students Centered on Targeting Social Disparity and Improving Health Literacy.

Description:

In this engaging 6 hour training, attendees will explore the intentional application and integration of trauma-informed care approaches into measurably successful and sustainable programs for practitioners and organizations. We will make meaning of the complex terminology and theory around trauma and define the problem in ways that are relevant to you and your work. Attendees will receive concrete tools, best practices, and resources to support their efforts to curate their own trauma-informed care models, policies, and practices that truly change environments and cultures to be more sensitive and responsive to the needs of our patients, clients, families, and others using this trauma-informed lens.

Agenda:

• 9AM – Introduction
• 9:30AM – Background
• 10:00AM – Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA)
• 10:30AM – BREAK
• 10:45AM – Assessment of TIA
• 11:20AM – Assessment of TIA Case Studies
• 12:00PM – LUNCH
• 1:00PM – Implementation of TIA
• 2:00PM – Measuring Success & Ensuring Sustainability of TIA
• 2:45PM – BREAK
• 3:00PM – Case Studies & Best Practices Toolkit
• 4:30 PM – End

Learning Objectives:

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

Apply intentional trauma-informed strategies and principles to enhance workplace and programing procedures and practices centered on improving sensitivity and responsiveness to trauma responses in the many ways they manifest.

Integrate seminal literature on trauma and trauma-informed education pedagogy into systems and processes that will help measure the successful implementation of the trauma-informed approach at the individual practitioner and organizational level.

Refine existing trauma-informed practices to reflect, include, and partner with those most impacted by the burden of trauma to create change that is effective, sustainable, and valuable.