Date & Time
9:00am EDT - 12:00pm EDT
About This Event
Workshop Summary
This workshop introduces helping professionals to the foundational concepts and practical application of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). Participants will explore how trauma affects the brain, body, and behavior across the lifespan, and learn how to recognize the signs of trauma in the individuals they serve. Drawing on the SAMHSA six-principle framework, the workshop emphasizes shifting organizational and interpersonal practice from "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?" Through interactive discussion, case-based learning, and reflective exercises, participants will leave equipped to integrate trauma-informed principles into their daily professional practice — reducing re-traumatization, building trust, and promoting healing-centered engagement.
This workshop is appropriate for social workers, counselors, case managers, nurses, educators, community health workers, and others in direct service roles.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define trauma and describe its prevalence, types (acute, chronic, complex, historical/intergenerational), and the wide range of experiences that can be traumatic.
- Explain the neurobiological impact of trauma, including how adverse experiences affect brain development, the stress response system, and behavior — particularly in children and adolescents.
- Identify the six core principles of Trauma-Informed Care as defined by SAMHSA: safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.
- Recognize behavioral and emotional indicators of trauma in clients/patients, including responses that may be misidentified as non-compliance, resistance, or aggression.
- Distinguish between trauma-informed and trauma-specific practice, understanding the role of TIC as an organizational and relational framework rather than a treatment modality.
- Apply trauma-informed communication strategies — including grounding language, choice-giving, and transparent explanations — in direct service interactions.
About This Event
Workshop Summary
This workshop introduces helping professionals to the foundational concepts and practical application of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). Participants will explore how trauma affects the brain, body, and behavior across the lifespan, and learn how to recognize the signs of trauma in the individuals they serve. Drawing on the SAMHSA six-principle framework, the workshop emphasizes shifting organizational and interpersonal practice from "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?" Through interactive discussion, case-based learning, and reflective exercises, participants will leave equipped to integrate trauma-informed principles into their daily professional practice — reducing re-traumatization, building trust, and promoting healing-centered engagement.
This workshop is appropriate for social workers, counselors, case managers, nurses, educators, community health workers, and others in direct service roles.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define trauma and describe its prevalence, types (acute, chronic, complex, historical/intergenerational), and the wide range of experiences that can be traumatic.
- Explain the neurobiological impact of trauma, including how adverse experiences affect brain development, the stress response system, and behavior — particularly in children and adolescents.
- Identify the six core principles of Trauma-Informed Care as defined by SAMHSA: safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.
- Recognize behavioral and emotional indicators of trauma in clients/patients, including responses that may be misidentified as non-compliance, resistance, or aggression.
- Distinguish between trauma-informed and trauma-specific practice, understanding the role of TIC as an organizational and relational framework rather than a treatment modality.
- Apply trauma-informed communication strategies — including grounding language, choice-giving, and transparent explanations — in direct service interactions.
Date & Time
9:00am EDT - 12:00pm EDT