Category Archives: Trauma-Informed Care

Embarking on Your Trauma-Informed Journey

Tips & Insights for Organizations

In this CARE4YOU 2024 session, Kathleen Gorman explores trauma-informed practice and shares key considerations for organizations embarking on a trauma-informed journey.

June 2024

Making Space to Fall Apart

A Conversation on Compassionate Care with Dr. Alana Hirsh

Dr. Alana Hirsh is a family physician and a UBC Clinical Assistant Professor who specializes in addiction medicine and the integration of trauma and substance use disorder treatment. In this conversation, she shares her lessons learned working in in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on the front lines of British Columbia's overdose epidemic.

September 2021

Race and Culture Have Everything to Do With It

Intersections of Secondary Traumatic Stress with Racism, Historical Trauma, and other Systems of Oppression

In this CARE4YOU 2021 session, Sandra Chase, Alison Hendricks, and Carmen Rosa Noroña explore how secondary traumatic stress intersects with culture, racism, historical trauma, and other systems of oppression.

June 2021

Relationship-Centered Care is Better Care

The Importance of Incorporating Cultural Humility in Our Work

We know that a one-size-fits-all approach to care is ineffective but becoming culturally competent can feel like an impossible task. In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, Donna Shanor explores how culture can influence experiences of trauma.

June 2020

We Can’t Be Trauma Responsive Without Being STS-Informed

Tools for Organizational Change

What does it mean to be a secondary-trauma informed workplace? In this CARE4YOU 2020 session, Dr. Ginny Sprang explores tools to assess the degree to which a workplace is secondary-trauma-informed.

June 2020

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