Resources
Building a Trauma-Informed Monadnock Together
Trauma Informed Training
Trauma Informed Leadership –
Free Online Leadership Training (49min)
This leadership training session covers the principles of trauma-informed leadership, and the actions linked to leading with both expertise and empathy.
Addressing Childhood Trauma through Trauma –
Informed Care from the American Medical Association (35min)
Pediatric experts explain trauma-informed care and how it fits into overall care plans, focusing on the effects of trauma on development, and how to screen, treat, prevent, and understand its impact throughout life.
Trauma Informed Care (55min)
Applying trauma informed care to patients, caregivers, and staff.
Becoming Trauma –
Informed in Our Daily Work (42min)
This webinar focuses on the principles of trauma-informed care and their application in daily practices.
Trauma Informed Principles and Practices (17min)
This video provides an overview of trauma-informed principles and explains their significance for all organizations. It also clarifies the distinction between “trauma-informed” and “trauma-focused,” while discussing trends in the mental health treatment field. Leaders, supervisors, professionals, students, and anyone interested in learning about trauma will find this video valuable.
Releasing the Pain of Relational Trauma (2hrs)
Free workshop lead by world-renowned trauma expert and lead IFS trainer, Dr. Frank Anderson that will Change your perspective on the power of forgiveness and how it can help heal the pain of relational trauma.
Trauma – Informed Supervision (1hr and 14min)
This training is for anyone in a leadership or management role and will teach professionals how to effectively manage and connect with those they supervise. Participants will learn how trauma affects staff and how to recognize signs of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma in order to provide trauma-informed supervision.
Building a Trauma –
Informed Remote Work Culture (1hr and 20min)
This training will focus on how to apply trauma-informed practices to create a trauma-sensitive remote work environment. Attendees will examine the effects of COVID-19, inequality, and the “new normal” on staff and their daily lives. Participants will also learn how to use the Six Trauma-Informed Principles to build safe and supportive workspaces for their teams.
A Trauma – Informed Approach to De-escalation and Crisis Response (1hr and 28min)
This webinar will cover how trauma can impact refugee and newcomer clients, often leading to heightened stress and challenging interactions. It will offer practical tips for de-escalating client situations while maintaining safety for both clients and staff.
Session 1: Intro to Trauma- Informed Care – Why is it Important? (9min)
This course introduces trauma-informed care, highlighting the widespread impact of trauma on children and adults, including statistics from the WHO and the National Council for Behavioral Health. It covers essential skills for trauma care, focusing on understanding trauma’s lifelong effects, ensuring safety, building connections, and managing overwhelming emotions and behaviors, while emphasizing the importance of self-care for those working with trauma-impacted individuals.
Implementing Trauma – Informed Care Within Organizations (1hr and 3min)
This webinar will explore how to implement trauma-informed care practices in organizations, recognizing the impact of trauma on both individuals and communities. It will focus on shifting the perspective from “what’s wrong with you” to “what happened to you,” helping organizations create trauma-sensitive services, structures, and policies.
Organizational Guidelines for Trauma Informed Care (49min)
This video outlines practical strategies for implementing trauma-informed practices within organizations. It emphasizes creating safe environments, promoting staff training, and adopting policies that recognize and address trauma to improve service delivery and support both clients and staff.
Essential Trauma Informed Interventions for Trauma Recovery and Healing (1hr)
In this video Essential Trauma-Informed Interventions for Trauma Recovery and Healing by Dr. Snipes outlines effective trauma-informed strategies to aid in trauma recovery. It focuses on interventions that promote safety, emotional regulation, and resilience to support healing and long-term recovery.
What is Trauma – Informed Care?
A Comprehensive Overview (1hr and 29min)
This video introduces trauma-informed care, covering the definition of trauma, the 4 R’s, 6 principles, and 10 agency domains. It also distinguishes between “trauma-informed” and “trauma-focused” care, offering a comprehensive overview useful for leaders, professionals, and students in the mental health field.
Foundations of Trauma Informed Care Videos
A free, online, self-paced version of the Foundations of TIC material. We encourage learners to explore the content in whatever way works best for them. The videos cover key topics in trauma-informed care and are intentionally kept short to accommodate various schedules.
TIC Training Center Free Trauma Informed Care Training Courses
Free courses on Trauma informed care.
Free Online Trauma Courses through Alison Empower Yourself
These free online courses cover the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological trauma. Trauma occurs after experiencing extremely stressful events that leave you feeling helpless and unable to cope with your emotions. Create an account to access this information.
Trauma Informed Oregon
TIO’s Introduction to TIC Online Training offers four free, self-paced modules that cover the basics of trauma-informed care. Each module includes a course video, a community video showcasing trauma-informed care in action, extra reading materials, reflection questions, and a knowledge check. To access the modules, create an account.
National Health Care for the Homeless Council Trauma- Informed Care Webinar Series
A unique 4-part webinar series on trauma informed care. This series examined how the TIC paradigm can play a critical role in transforming providers approaches to care.
Conscious Discipline Understanding Trauma with Dr. Becky Bailey
Understanding Trauma: Reaching and Teaching Children with Trauma offers valuable knowledge and practical strategies for healing trauma. In three video sessions, Dr. Becky Bailey explores how to break the cycle of trauma by raising awareness about the current trauma crisis. The sessions focus on self-regulation, connection, and resilience techniques to foster healthy, healing relationships that support trauma-affected individuals and communities. The series includes over 120 minutes of video content, three downloadable session guides, and additional digital resources.
Many factors determine whether an event is traumatic and how deep its impact goes, and these are different for everyone.
What’s most important to understand is that trauma isn’t actually what happened, but how you respond to it.
For example, if your grandmother died by suicide when you were seven, that was a traumatic event. However, your trauma may have come from the fact that you had no one to talk to about the event and it left you feeling confused, isolated, and afraid.
This secondary trauma can settle deep within our cells and leaves many individuals with disruptors to their everyday life including: anxiety, inability to form healthy relationships, depression, loss of hope, or withdrawal (the list goes on).
Trauma isn’t the event itself, but how the event affected you, individually.
Particularly in childhood, trauma can occur when anything consistently leaves a child feeling unsafe in the world and unsupported by caregivers.
Years later, these deeply burrowed beliefs may resurface and show up as:
Addiction
- Mental health issues, such as anxiety or depression
- Physical health issues, such as diabetes or heart disease
- A host of other challenges
These symptoms typically get treated at the level of the problem instead of digging down to understand what caused them.
ACEs Scoring and PACEs
What is ACEs scoring?
ACES are adverse childhood experiences that harm children’s developing brains and change how they respond to stress. If not addressed, the damage done can affect them for life.
ACEs cause much of our burden of chronic disease and mental illness, and can be associated with violence, crime, and other negative social outcomes.
The ACEs scoring system comes from the landmark CDC-Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences Study which explored the prevalence of childhood trauma. ACEs are typically regarded as comprising 10 categories:
- Abuse–physical, emotional, or sexual
- Neglect–physical or emotional
- Household challenges–when a parent:
- Experiences mental illness or substance addiction
- Is abused in front of the child
- Is incarcerated or leaves the family unit through separation, divorce, or death
A second ACE measure, Adverse Community Environments, links negative outcomes to broader societal experiences, such as:
- Racism and discrimination
- Bullying
- Poverty and lack of access to services
These and other adverse childhood, climate, and community experiences commonly lead to the experience of trauma and its systemic impact later in life.
The higher the ACE score, the greater risk for such outcomes as chronic disease, mental illness, addiction, violence, or being a victim of violence.
The ACE scoring system is based on a 0-10 scale where each type of trauma counts as one, regardless of how often it occurred.
What are PACEs?
PACEs are protective and compensatory experiences. They are positive childhood experiences that can help increase resilience and protect against the risk for mental and physical illness and other negative outcomes to childhood trauma.
PACEs include things like positive relationships, behaviors, and resources that lessen the development of future problems related to health and wellbeing, even with a history of ACEs.
The Ten PACEs Are:
- Unconditional love of a parent or caregiver
- Time spent with a best friend
- Volunteering or helping others
- Being active in a social group or community
- Having a mentor that’s outside of the family
- Living in a clean, safe home with enough nourishment
- Having opportunities to learn
- Having a hobby
- Being active or playing sports
- Having routine and fair rules at home
Our Initiatives
Our aim is to create a trauma-informed community where everyone experiences health and safety.
As an organization, we realize the widespread impact of trauma on families, individuals, and communities. We’re actively working to raise awareness to help others recognize the symptoms of trauma and build trauma-informed policies, procedures, and practices in their organizations.
We believe the Monadnock community can be a place of safety, connection, compassion, prevention, health, and well-being for all who call our beautiful region home.