Trauma-Informed Care Online Course
60-90 minutes self-paced online content
For health care and social service professionals
What You’ll Learn
This self-paced online course introduces the core principles of trauma-informed care (TIC) and its role in creating person-centered, high-quality systems. Learn about trauma, resilience, and universal design while gaining practical skills to apply TIC principles in real-world settings.
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.
About the Course
- Self-paced content: Complete the majority of the coursework at your own pace online.
- Concepts covered: Trauma and resilience, adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s), Trauma-informed care, Universal design
- Progress updates: Sponsors receive regular participant progress reports.
- Capacity: This course can accommodate up to 24 learners per group.
What Learners Are Saying
Great examples!
Very clear language and lots of examples that really illustrated the key concepts (e.g. different kinds of trauma) – helped me to understand.
Clear instructions and quick support
The course was easy to follow and the instructor got back to me with information quickly and efficiently.
Great personal reflection
The TIC course made me think about what I say, how I react, and how others feel.
Concise and easy-to-follow course
Great length! It was not too overwhelming or time consuming making it easy to digest and follow along.
Well-constructed course
I liked the resources and formatting of the modules of the course. Very clearly and concisely presented.
Self-paced and user-friendly course
Self-paced, easy to navigate course. Instructors were quick to respond.
Relevant content and easy navigation
The material covered was relevant and the course was easy to navigate.
Effective assignments
I really liked the use of assignments to ensure we fully understand the material.
Insightful overview of Trauma-Informed Care!
The learning gave me an insightful overview of TIC that is applicable to my leadership role for sites in my portfolio.
Engaging and manageable course structure
I liked that the course was self paced, offered different types on information delivery and wasn’t too overwhelming to go through.
Solution-oriented approaches
The course focused more on how we could solve the problems, rather than just address them and their causes, so it was very helpful for me in my role.
Practical intro to Trauma-Informed Care
The content is a nice entry into trauma informed care. I appreciated the activity which involved practical application of the knowledge.
Course Details
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.
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
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
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