Trauma Responsivity 101:

What is Trauma and

Why Does it impact our work?

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

10am -12pm EST

This live virtual training will provide a base understanding of what trauma is, how it impacts individuals and groups, behavioral manifestations of trauma, and ways to reduce the negative impacts of trauma. Human services staff and management are the intended audience for this training. This is part of our ongoing training series on trauma responsivity. The training will be recorded and provided to registered participants.

Cost: $19

Attend This Webinar To Learn

walk away with:

1

What is trauma?

How do we define trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and toxic stress?

walk away with:

A deeper understanding of what trauma is

An increased understanding of how trauma impacts the brain's development

An understanding of the short history of trauma research and the expansion beyond the "10 ACEs" of the 1990s

An understanding of the intersectionality of identities and frequency of trauma experiences, resulting in amplified harms for multiply-marginalized communities

walk away with:

2

What are the impacts of trauma?

We'll discuss how trauma impacts brain development, resulting in changes to executive functioning, logic, and fight or flight nervous system states.

walk away with:

An increased understanding of how trauma impacts the brain's development

An understanding of how those physical brain changes impact cognition and behaviors

An understanding of how trauma exposure is correlated with negative social determinants of health and therefore health outcomes

An awareness of how trauma and social determinant of health impacts can be seen on a community level

walk away with:

3

What does it mean to be trauma responsive?

We'll start to delve into what it means to be trauma responsive, both as a process and an outcome. We'll discuss individual, organizational, and community/cultural efforts that can decrease enacting new trauma and mitigate trauma responses, resulting in improved outcomes.

walk away with:

An understanding of what trauma responsivity is as a process and an outcome

An awareness of how to impact your own trauma responses

Am emerging understanding of how individuals, organizations, and communities can be more trauma responsive

An emerging awareness of the possible outcome changes through trauma responsive processes

presented by:

Dr. Jodi Petersen,

CEO at Petersen Research Consultants

Dr. Jodi Petersen has a doctorate degree in Ecological-Community Psychology from Michigan State University and focuses on helping organizations define, gather, and use data to increase their impact. She expertise in helping human services organizations become more trauma responsive and helping criminal justice organizations implement criminogenic risk assessment instruments to reduce bias, match clients to the most appropriate and impactful programs, and decrease repeat offending.