Information for Individuals Interested in Attending Trauma Informed Care Training

OverviewTrauma is widespread and has far-reaching impacts on the health and well-being of individuals and their engagement with health and social care staff and services. Trauma experiences, and the lack of understanding of their impact on individuals, can create difficulties in relationships between service users and service providers. Safe and nurturing relationships between staff and service users is fundamental to recovery from trauma and positive engagement in services. Safe and nurturing relationships can be facilitated by, or augmented by, the creation of a trauma-informed organisation.

Trauma Informed Care in Ireland is a training and quality implementation programme for organisations committed to working in a trauma-informed way with all who use their services. Our vision is that all people who have survived trauma can access, and remain engaged with, services where they feel safe, supported and encouraged to heal and grow. We hope that individuals and communities traditionally most likely to disengage from services can stay engaged and feel safe, respected, empowered, trusted and welcomed.

Programme MissionThe Trauma Informed Care in Ireland programmes seek to make accessible, high quality trauma and trauma-informed care training and resources available to the Irish Health and Social Care sector.

Programme Framework The Trauma-informed Care in Ireland training and quality programme consists of three core facets:

Module 1. Trauma theory: 3 Hours Pre Recorded Lectures in your own time

The core knowledge that everyone in the organisation must have in order to be trauma-informed.

Module 2. Trauma-informed Interpersonal Practice: 2 x 3.5 hour online workshops with 14 other professionals from diverse backgrounds

Trauma-informed practice between staff and service users involve creating healing relationships and a healing interpersonal environment to prevent retraumatisation, as well as supporting emotional regulation where people are triggered.

Module 3. Trauma-informed organisations: not included in individual training

To be trauma-informed, an organisation must support the creation of a healing environment through its processes, policies, staff supports and physical environment. A set of organisational standards, an assessment and implementation planning approach support organisations to do this through the Champions Model, should organisations wish to pursue it.

Approach / Programme PartnersThis programme was developed by the non-profit sector, for the non-profit sector. Originally developed for Novas, an

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organisation working with people with a high trauma profile, a team of front-line practitioners and academics have developed, piloted and refined this training to ensure it is suitable to a range of health and social care environments. The programme is managed by a consortium involving Novas, Quality Matters and with expert oversight by Dr. Sharon Lambert, and is additionally overseen

by a panel of expert advisors from national or specialist roles in the health, community, social care or academic sectors. We aim to ensure the programme is adopted and owned by as many of our partners in service provision as possible. For this reason we have adopted an approach that draws on research, but aims to be implementable in practice

Learning Objectives

TestimonialsWe have trained over 800 people in Trauma Informed Care:

- 95% of our attendees (which included staff, management, boards, kitchen staff, cleaners and others) said they would recommend the training to someone in a similar role.

- 98% said they felt more confident in understanding and implementing trauma-informed practice after attending the training

- Research undertaken by the University of Limerick has shown a significant reduction in verbal and physical incidents in the service, as well as a marked change in the use of authoritarian language about and with service users

“This is a really important workshop for anyone working in social care. I just wish I’d known about this stuff earlier”

Next Steps To book your place at training (€150 per person) please copy this link into your browser: https://traumainformedcareireland.com/for-individuals/ Next dates for live workshops are 10th and 17th June / 5th & 12th July/12th and 19th August.

Workshops run from 9.30 to 1pm. For all other queries (whole organisation training, champions training or other training

dates) please contact tic@qualitymatters.ie

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