City-Wide Trauma Awareness, Sensitivity and Healing Through Relationships
Training in January 2020: Moving towards and sustaining being adversity, culturally, & trauma-informed, infused, and responsive organisation/group
Aims and objectives of the 2-day training included: • Learn about what being adversity, culturally, and trauma-informed, infused, and responsive means and looks like; and establish why it is needed, important, and beneficial. • Identify the key values, principles, and definitions within trauma-informed organisational transformation. • Learn about some of the key aspects to support successful implementation. • Learn about several best practice models for being more trauma-informed and trauma-responsive at an organisational level. • Increase knowledge and understanding around specific components and the nuts and bolts of the practice of being more trauma-informed, such as through induction and recruitment, the language we use, through to the physical environment, through to lived experience involvement, through to team meetings, through to supervision, through to behavioural responses, and much more. • Consider what some of the factors are for improving the effectiveness of trauma-informed practice; as well as what some of the potential obstacles and barriers may be. • Reflect on what is going well already and how can this be magnified, strengthened, and celebrated. • Develop action plans, momentum, and ideas from the group as to ways to become more trauma- informed and trauma-responsive. • Learn more about organisational and secondary trauma, as well as group processes. • Create well-being plans.
Participants received CPD certification from University College Cork (UCC) for full attendance. To date, over 500 individuals from a plethora of services including therapeutic services, homeless services, TUSLA, justice services, education services, youth services, nursing, and midwifery, the HSE (Health Service Executive), Cork City Council, academia, and Cork ETB (Education Training Board) have attended the training. The training programme aimed to develop and embed a common language and understanding across the city of trauma and adversity, and to further enhance service delivery to vulnerable children, families, and communities.
Cork Trauma Sensitive City
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