Trauma-Informed Care: Improving Care for Everyone

Trauma-Informed Care: Improving Care for Everyone

  Approximately 60-90 minutes. Learners have 30-days from enrollment to complete.

  Health care and social service professionals

This self-paced online mini course gives an introduction to trauma and the impact of trauma-informed care (TIC) as a set of universal principles for high-quality system design. Learners will gain an understanding that TIC is critical to person-centred health-system transformation, practice applying the principles of TIC to a small system-change opportunity, and be invited to move from concepts to action. Topics include:

  • Trauma and resilience
  • Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s)
  • Trauma informed care
  • Universal design

Note: This course is focused on system-level precautions, and does not teach clinical skills or therapeutic modalities for screening or treating people suffering from the effects of trauma.

This course can accommodate groups of 6-24 learners.

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Learning Objectives

Goal:

Learners will understand that TIC is critical to person-centred health-system transformation and gain practice in applying the principles of TIC to a small system-change opportunity.

Objectives:

  • Review the physiological impacts and high prevalence of trauma.
  • Explore the principles of TIC and universal design.
  • Consider how TIC as universal design benefits all users.
  • Analyze how current processes, environments or interactions that are central to your job could be improved through a lens of trauma-informed practice and make recommendations for improvement.

Training Approach

This is an interactive course that is designed for participants who want to consider practical applications to their work. CCMI uses learner-centred, performance-based approaches to adult education. The course includes learning activities that evoke understanding and build skills. These include:

  • Interactive online activities
  • A journal assignment
  • Class forum discussion
  • A final assignment with feedback from an instructor

Tech Requirements

In order to complete this course, learners will need:

  • Access to a computer, laptop, or tablet with the capability to watch and listen to video and audio.
  • Internet connection
  • Up to date browser including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge. The course will not run with Internet Explorer

Course Outline

Module 1: Overview and Instructions

Module 2: Trauma-Informed Care: Improving Care for Everyone

  • Trauma and resilience
  • Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Universal design

Module 3: Final Assignment

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