City-Wide Trauma Awareness, Sensitivity and Healing Through Relationships
• Department of Social Protection • Cork City Council • TESS – School Completion Programme • Probation • Homeless Services • Traveller Visibility Group • Elected Members • RAPID • Healthy Cities • Addiction Services • Area Based Childhood Committee
All members of the steering group have gained insight into the long-term impact trauma can have on people. They are committed to developing and driving the goals of making Cork City Ireland’s first trauma-sensitive city. 2.9 Training & Workforce development Cork City recognised the need to support workforce development in relation to adopting a Trauma-sensitive approach in recent years and in April 2019, and in January 2020, training was provided for key service pro- viders across the city. Dr Karen Treisman delivered training over the course of 4 full days to over 500 individ- uals. 2.9.1 Training – Dr Karen Treisman Training in April 2019 : An Introduction to relational and Developmental Trauma The Objectives of the 2-day training included to: • Develop further knowledge and understanding about the impact of early trauma on children’s overall development • Gain further insight into the latest brain science and neurobiology around childhood trauma and neglect • Consider how emotional regulation develops in childhood and how it can be influenced by trauma and ACEs • Learn how to identify children’s multi-sensory triggers and emotional hotspots • Gain further understanding as to why therapeutic re-parenting and relationship-based trauma-sensitive practice is so fundamental to children’s progress • Increased understanding as to why trauma is a multi-sensory whole-body experience requiring multi- sensory whole-body interventions
Cork Trauma Sensitive City
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