TIC in Organizations: Six Key Principles

Adopting a trauma-informed approach is not accomplished through any single particular technique or checklist. It requires constant attention, caring awareness, sensitivity, and possibly a cultural change at an organizational level. On-going internal organizational assessment and quality improvement, as well as engagement with community stakeholders, will help to imbed this approach which can be augmented with…

TIC in Organizations: Ten Implementation Domains

Developing a trauma-informed approach requires change at multiples levels of an organization and systematic alignment with the ten key principles described below. The guidance provided here builds upon the work of Harris and Fallot and in conjunction with the key principles, provides a starting point for developing an organizational trauma-informed approach. While it is recognized…

Trauma-Informed Policing: Cops, COVID and TIC

Highlighting the need for trauma-informed policing during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Note: The following is drawn from a scholarly article on trauma-informed policing, originally published by Daniel J. Jones. To see the full paper, with all references intact, click here. There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, and the…

The Life-Changing Difference of a Trusted Mentor

One of the biggest predictors of a child’s ability to be resilient in the face of trauma is interacting with a caring adult. Through everyday gestures, any adult in a child’s life can vastly increase that child’s opportunity for success. Learn how your everyday gestures can help a child in your life at ChangingMindsNOW.org. The…

Trauma-Informed Certificate

Get Certified for 50% Off – For a Limited Time Enhance your professional knowledge, skills, and career potential with an expanded model of trauma. Drawn from a three-day conference by the Colorado Professional Development Center, who’ve certified over two hundred people, from therapists to soldiers, and everything in between. Register for the Trauma-Informed Practitioners Certificate.…

Trauma-Aware Bundle

A comprehensive overview of developmental trauma, its impacts and symptoms, and various approaches to healing. This bundle is part of the trauma-informed certificate training but is also sold separately for those who want to understand trauma but not necessarily need a practitioner’s certificate. Approximately 15 hours of study, 100% online. No textbooks or additional purchases…

CA Surgeon General, “Screen Every Student for Childhood Trauma”

Childhood Trauma is the elephant in the room, people. California, often the leader n social service programming, seems to be taking it seriously. Let’s hope all states will quickly follow their lead. We’re so busy drugging our kids into submission, quickly diagnosing them with ADHD and the rest, while completely ignoring the principal underlying cause,…

Childhood Trauma an Essential Ingredient in Mass Shootings

Jillian Peterson and James Densley, founders of The Violence Project, have, for two years, been studying the life histories of mass shooters in the United States for a project funded by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. They’ve built a database dating back to 1966 of every…

Trauma-Informed Courts: The How and Why

Why Trauma-Informed courts? Modern courtrooms function more like emergency rooms than traditional courtrooms. The sound of the gavel replaces the siren. Clerks, judges and attorneys are the first responders while the podium becomes the center for the differential diagnosis and treatment.  More than ever before, courts are inheriting and being asked to resolve fundamental societal…

An Overview of Trauma

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