Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace

UNA members are invited to join a partnership training with Minnesota Council of Nonprofits for a session about creating a trauma-informed workplace. Explore what it means to be a trauma-informed workplace. Develop skills, language, and learn to apply principals that will support a healthy workplace culture.

Acknowledging and effectively intervening in stress and trauma builds a resilient workforce better able to manage crisis in our lives, organization, and community. But what does it mean to be trauma-informed, and how can nonprofits build such an environment for their own teams?

In this workshop, participants will:

  • Learn a shared vocabulary of trauma-informed language
  • Define and learn research-based strategies to prevent vicarious trauma (including second-hand trauma exposure for indirect service staff)
  • Develop skills around individual coping and resilience
  • Explore what it means to be a trauma-informed workplace through a community care model
  • Apply principles of trauma-informed workplace to your organization
  • Identify and implement the 8 components of Trauma-informed supervision
  • Implement all of these concepts and skills in a strengths-based framework grounded in the understanding of and response to the impact of trauma to approach relationships

This workshop is geared toward supervisors looking to build their skills in recognizing and managing stress responses. 

This training takes place over the course of three days: December 19, 20, & 21, from 2 to 4 PM (MST) daily.

Who Should Attend
Executive Directors, Board Members, Development staff, Volunteers, Program Managers, and anyone who would like to develop this important skill!

Cost
Pricing:$129 for UNA members (using the provided discount code) / $169 for nonmembers

How to Register

  • UNA Members, please log in above to receive the member discount code and registration link
  • Not-yet-Members can register by visiting the event registration page via MCN

Instructor:

Lisa Allred started advocating for survivors of violence in college when she founded an Acquaintance Rape Education Program that was incorporated into orientation for all first-year students at Wake Forest University. This led her to working as a crisis therapist for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence and to spearheading movements in North Carolina to change laws on marital rape and stalking. After getting her licensed clinical social worker degree, she became the clinical director for a sexual abuse evaluation program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in child psychiatry. After another decade as a clinician and trainer, she switched gears and went into nonprofit management, specializing in program evaluation and development, grant writing, and clinical supervision. To round out her experience, she has spent 25 years providing trainings for therapists, nonprofit leaders, and graduate students at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Her training specialties include communication and conflict, stress management (in 10 minutes or less), creating trauma-informed workplaces, motivation, child development, program evaluation, grant-writing, and clinical practice. She loves to help organizations and people become more focused and effective by improving their systems and motivating their staff.

This training is brought to you by our partner, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.

 

When
December 19th, 2023 2:00 PM to December 21st, 2023 4:00 PM
Location
Online