5 Essential Safety Skills (for Re-entry): A Trauma-Informed Series

Description: Based on the  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) model, this 5-part webinar series focuses on five specific, active, and measurable skills that professionals of all backgrounds can use to work effectively with children and adults who have been exposed to individual trauma exposure, collective exposures (e.g., community violence or natural disasters), and who continue to struggle with their after effects. The series is designed to enhance staff’s client-focused skill set. In addition, through this series, agency staff will be provided with the skills to understand the impact that trauma can have on child development and human behavior, and gain effective skills to help children and adults become safer in the here and now.

PART ONE: Universal Precautions: The foundation of trauma-informed care

In the first webinar, attendees will review the public health approach to universal precautions around trauma exposure and how to ethically and legally ask…