{"id":20958,"date":"2024-05-07T21:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsjcc.on.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=20958"},"modified":"2024-05-07T21:44:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:44:43","slug":"trauma-sensitive-care-principles-and-practices","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/hsjcc.on.ca\/event\/trauma-sensitive-care-principles-and-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma-Sensitive Care: Principles and Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trauma-Sensitive Care involves understanding how past trauma (including developmental trauma such as childhood abuse) impacts a service user’s current behaviour, mental health and physical health. When trauma is misinterpreted, misunderstood, and minimized, people are left to respond repeatedly from wounded places, without awareness. When combined with developmental disability or substance abuse, the challenges for individuals living with trauma are compounded enormously. As a result, when agencies and service providers are not trauma-informed, they run the risk of misdiagnosis, inadequate treatment or service provision, damage to the helping relationship, and inadvertently re-traumatizing clients. 

A trauma-informed approach recognizes that past trauma can play a major role in mental illness, addiction, homelessness, crime and even chronic diseases and physical ailments.  Instead of asking \u201cwhat is wrong with this person?\u201d we ask \u201cwhat happened to this person?\u201d. With that lens, compassion, safety, and empowerment for the service user are key principles that are integrated into all aspects of service from intake procedures to individual interactions with service providers. We become more effective supporters to the people we care for, and the spin-off is that we\u2019re highly likely to understand ourselves better as well. This approach can be applied across all settings including (but not limited to) Social Services, child welfare agencies, schools, homeless shelters & women’s shelters, group homes, enforcement agencies, addiction agencies, community & health care settings, and businesses.  

This practical, interactive workshop will introduce participants to the principles and practices of Trauma-Informed Care. Kim\u2019s presentation style will include a combination of lecture, video analysis, and small and large group discussions.

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