What is Trauma?

3 EVENTS

• EVENT

• EXPERIENCE

• EFFECTS

TRAUMA

• Lack of Sense of Safety

• Disconnected

• Powerlessness

• We need to presume the clients we serve have a history of traumatic stress & exercise “universal precautions.”

Modas, 2004

What is a

Trauma-Informed

Approach?

To Heal…

CONNECTION

SAFETY EMPOWERMENT

Actions Actions That That Don’t Hurt Hurt

TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH

Intake & ScreeningService PlanningReferralsStaff TrainingTraining Self-AdvocatesPolicies & PracticesEnvironmental Factors

Scenario #1

• Sue is at the grocery store with her staff when she hears someone say the “R” word.

Scenario #2

• Marge has never had the opportunity to make any decisions; her staff and family have complete control over her life.

Scenario #3

• Staff drive Joan to work every day and they drive past the school where Joan was sexually assaulted when she was a child.

Scenario #4

• Lisa doesn’t like the way the bus driver looks her up and down. When she tells staff, they tell her that Bill’s a nice man and she shouldn’t say unkind things about him.

Scenario #5

• Bobbi tells her staff that some of her peers have made fun of her. Staff tells her to just ignore them.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world~ Anne Frank

So What Will You do…..