Training workshop to explore what is MEANS AND WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A
'TRAUMA-INFORMED' SERVICE FOR LEADERS AND MANAGERS. WorkUP Queensland
[https://workupqld.org.au/] is delivered by The Healing Foundation
[https://healingfoundation.org.au/] and ANROWS
[https://www.anrows.org.au/] to build and grow capability and capacity
of the sexual violence, women's health and domestic and family
violence sector over the next five years.
BEING A TRAUMA-INFORMED SERVICE: WHAT IT MEANS AND WHAT IT TAKES FOR
LEADERS AND TEAMS
Coupled with growing understandings of the widespread and harmful
impacts of trauma, there has been a growing awareness that with
appropriate supports and interventions people can recover from trauma.
As a consequence, there has also been greater awareness that
organisations and service systems can either assist in resolving, or
worsening, the impacts of trauma. Being trauma-informed has now become
an important focus across a vast array of social, health and legal
services and it is recognised that leadership is vital to achieving
and sustaining trauma informed approaches.
This one day training program will explore what it means, and more
importantly, what it takes, to become a ‘trauma-informed’ service.
In particular, the training will focus on how an organisation can
structurally integrate knowledge about trauma across its service
system so that policies, procedures and practices are designed to
actively avoid re-traumatisation of service users or being harmful for
workers. The connections between twenty-first century leadership
theory and trauma informed perspectives will also be explored to give
guidance to those leading services and teams.
The training will be informed by contemporary research and practice
accompanied by many practical tips and ideas on how organisations can
work towards and sustain being trauma-informed.
Financial support to assist with travel and accommodation costs may be
available for specialist domestic and family violence, sexual assault
and women’s health and wellbeing staff who are registered for
programmed events. Contact us at workforce@healingfoundation.org.au
Morning tea and lunch will be provided for both days.
Learning outcomes
* Understanding the origins of the trauma informed model
* Understanding the elements of the trauma informed model
* Exploring leadership capacities required to lead trauma informed
service approaches
* Exploring strategies to organisationally embedding trauma informed
approaches
* Application of these strategies to participant’s organisational
contexts.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
_PENNY GORDON _
Penny Gordon has a 37 year career as a psychologist during which time
she has worked extensively across clinical and organisational fields
of psychology. Penny is a highly regarded trainer and facilitator and
as well as regularly presenting professional development programs has
also taught across a range of graduate and post graduate university
courses. Penny has specialised in supporting adults who have
experienced significant trauma as either an adult or a child. This
area of work includes working with members of the community to resolve
their experiences of primary trauma and also assisting a broad range
of professionals across legal and justice services, mental health,
oncology and palliative care, domestic and family violence,
homelessness and housing, child protection, family intervention and
support and other first responder groups who are vulnerable to
secondary traumatic stress due to their continuous exposure to other
people’s trauma. Additionally, Penny has championed these
organisations to be trauma informed in the delivery and design of
their services. For the past 22 years Penny has worked in her own
consulting business supporting organisations, teams and individuals to
work effectively as possible in their fields of endeavour.
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