Trauma Informed
Trauma Informed
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Our Mission
Our Mission
We inspire and support caring professionals and organizations to foster healing, resilience, and transformation and help people thrive in the face of trauma and adversity.
Our Vision
Our Vision
We envision a world where health, human services, and public safety professionals understand the psychological effects of trauma and other distress, view experiences of adversity and hardship as potential sources of strength and growth, and feel equipped to respond well to their own suffering and that of the people they serve and work with.
Our Work
Our Work
What We Do
What We Do
We help organizations and professionals understand trauma, occupation-related strain, and other forms of distress, share individual, interpersonal, and organizational strategies to build resilience, growth, and wellbeing, and advocate for policies that allow people to grow, thrive, and fully engage with life after trauma or systems involvement.
Training
Training
Applying principles of trauma-informed care, positive psychology, and posttraumtic growth to help people thrive after trauma and other painful experiences.
Workshops
Workshops
Practicing research-backed strategies for cultivating wellbeing and mitigating occupation-related strain in criminal justice and behavioral health.
Program Support
Program Support
Partnering to build on your organization's strengths with practical strategies, tailored training, or custom programs.
Advocacy
Advocacy
Supporting policies that enable people to grow, thrive, and fully engage with what matters in life after trauma, addiction, or justice-involvement.
Training and Workshops
Training and Workshops
People and organizations in our field are busy, and working in addiction, mental health, or criminal justice is already stressful, especially in times of uncertainty. We uplift people we work with while fitting in thoughtfully with the work already happening.
Through our training, workshops, and consulting, we simplify the application of research and introduce ideas and practices that shape the way people think about and do their work, rather than trying to introduce new policies and procedures without knowing your context.
Ready to Go. We offer trainings and workshops that we've tailored for health, public health, mental health, substance use, and other professionals. With these training and workshop options, we can move quickly and book simply, scheduling at your earliest convenience.
Custom. We work together to craft highly contextualized custom training, consulting, or programs.
Work With Us
Work With Us
We make it easy to get started.
Want to to talk about it? Email us at info@traumapolicy.org or schedule a meeting with us here.
Ready to book training or a workshop? Book online here.
Key Concepts in Our Work
Key Concepts in Our Work
A threat to a person's cognitive or psychological integrity, trauma disrupts a person's worldview and personal narrative. Trauma stems from extreme experiences that overwhelm an individual's capacity to cope and impair their normal brain function. Trauma can result in both short- and long-term physical or psychological effects. However, trauma is not determinative—people survive, recover, and often grow stronger from it.
Defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by clinical professionals to diagnose mental health disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that occurs when traumatic stress responses lasting longer than one month are severe enough to interfere with a person’s ability to function normally.
Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) refers to positive psychological changes experienced as a result of struggling with highly challenging life circumstances, such as trauma, grief, or other forms of acute adversity. Individuals experiencing PTG report positive changes like greater appreciation of life, personal strength, new possibilities for their future, deeper relationships and connections with others, and spiritual and philosophical change.
Trauma-informed care (TIC) is a set of principles for professionals to create an environment that recognizes and responds to the needs of those who have experienced trauma in a sensitive and supportive manner. TIC requires professionals to understand the prevalence and impact of trauma on individuals and the ways it can manifest in physical, psychological, and behavioral changes. Trauma-informed care principles include 1) safety, 2) trustworthiness and transparency, 3) empowerment, voice, and choice, 4) mutuality and collaboration, 5) peer support, and 6) cultural, historical, and gender issues.
Our broad term encompassing various forms of psychological distress often experienced in behavioral health and criminal justice fields. These include burnout, secondary posttraumatic stress, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and moral injury. While each is unique, they share overlapping causes and can lead to disengagement, reduced performance, and significant distress for individuals and organizations impacted by them.
A comprehensive framework that integrates trauma-informed care principles with positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship, and posttraumatic growth research to empower professionals to foster healing, resilience, and growth—both for themselves and those they serve. By changing narratives, cultivating mindful attention, and creating relationships grounded in strengths, trust, and mutual appreciation, GOTR emphasizes the cultivation of wellbeing, growth, connection, and meaning in the face of adversity.
Contact us to tell us more about your work and learn about our training, workshops, and program support services .
Contact us to tell us more about your work and learn about our training, workshops, and program support services .
Email: info@traumapolicy.org
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