What is Trauma?
3 EVENTS
• EVENT
• EXPERIENCE
• EFFECTS
TRAUMA
• Lack of Sense of Safety
• Disconnected
• Powerlessness
• We need to presume the
clients we serve have a
history of traumatic stress &
exercise “universal
precautions.”
Modas, 2004
What is a
Trauma-Informed
Approach?
To Heal…
CONNECTION
SAFETY
EMPOWERMENT
Actions
That
Hurt
Actions
That Don’t
Hurt
TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH
Intake & Screening
Service Planning
Referrals
Staff Training
Training Self-Advocates
Policies & Practices
Environmental Factors
Scenario #1
• Sue is at the grocery store with her staff
when she hears someone say the “R”
word.
Scenario #2
• Marge has never had the opportunity to
make any decisions; her staff and family
have complete control over her life.
Scenario #3
• Staff drive Joan to work every day and
they drive past the school where Joan was
sexually assaulted when she was a child.
Scenario #4
• Lisa doesn’t like the way the bus driver
looks her up and down. When she tells
staff, they tell her that Bill’s a nice man and
she shouldn’t say unkind things about him.
Scenario #5
• Bobbi tells her staff that some of her peers
have made fun of her. Staff tells her to
just ignore them.
How wonderful it is that no one
has to wait a single moment
before starting to improve the
world~ Anne Frank
So What Will You do…..