We Can’t Be Trauma Responsive Without Being STS-Informed
Tools for Organizational Change
About the Video
What does it mean to be a secondary-trauma informed workplace? A key component of becoming trauma-responsive is learning how to protect workers from the negative effects of secondary traumatic stress. If our goal is to embed trauma responsive practices and protocols in our systems, we must first address the impact of indirect trauma on our most valuable resource – the people who do this challenging work.
In this session, Dr. Ginny Sprang explores tools and resources to assess the degree to which their workplace is STS-informed. and will learn how to integrate evidence-informed initiatives into their workplace.
Recorded in June 2020 as part of the Psychological PPE Program.
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About the Presenters
Dr. Ginny Sprang
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Dr. Ginny Sprang, is a Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky and the Executive Director of the UK Center on Trauma and Children. She has published extensively in the area of child traumatic stress, commercial sexual exploitation of minors, victimization, and secondary traumatic stress.
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