Trauma-informed practice: A strength-based and social justice approach for supporting diverse communities

Live webinar details: July 3, 2025 |  9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET

Facilitator: Karine Silverwoman, MSW, RSW.

This training is suitable for:

• Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
• Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors.
• Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
• First Responders: police, firefighters, paramedics.

Client age category: For professionals who work with adult clients.

Level of training: Introductory.

Trigger warning: Participating in our programming may evoke powerful feelings and can trigger participants who have experienced personal trauma. The facilitator will utilize grounding and self-soothing approaches throughout the workshop, take breaks and ask participants to set intentions on how they will take care of themselves given the workshop content.

Description: This interactive training will explore trauma, vicarious trauma and trauma-informed practice through a social justice lens and strength-based lens. Participants will consider the fundamentals of trauma (brain, body, nervous system), explore and reflect on trauma-informed approaches and tools to use in their work and in building confidence to interact with diverse persons and communities that have experienced trauma. 

Participants will be encouraged to analyze the ways trauma overlaps with chronic and systemic experiences of oppression and racism and how their own lived experiences might impact their work.  Participants will gain trauma-informed skills to support themselves, their teams and clients.

Learning objectives:

• Insight into ways to politicize and de-pathologize trauma.
• Gain a deeper understanding of how trauma impacts the body (brain, body, nervous system).
• Develop insight into connections between oppression and trauma.
• Gain confidence in applying trauma-informed tools and strategies.
• Be able to reflect and gain insight into one’s own individual trauma experiences.

Registration fees: General $300 | Student $270

Learn more and register at: https://cvent.me/E1PDy8