Why Do We Need This Training?

This training will help you understand the following:

• Trauma and traumatic stress is higher among children, families, caregivers and professionals involved in the child-welfare system.
• People who care for and help children in the child welfare system must understand the impact of trauma and how to respond with compassion.
• This training will help you understand trauma, learn to recognize it, help cope with it, and share this understanding.

Becoming Trauma-Informed Means Making a Perspective Shift.

Major human service systems like child welfare, juvenile justice, and health care are promoting perspective and policy shifts to recognize and minimize system-related traumatization and disparity.