Name: Storm Creative
Price range: $

Tower Hamlets is striving towards becoming a trauma informed borough and this training involves discussing the work on increasing awareness and responsiveness to trauma.

Tower Hamlets Public Health have commissioned WAVE Trust to provide free CPD-accredited training for frontline workers supporting residents across Tower Hamlets, funded by LBTH Public Health via the Department for Health and Social Care’s Better Mental Health Fund 2021-2022. Registerfor both or one of these 2 hour sessions via links below.

Understanding Trauma (Module A)

Implementing Trauma-Informed Practice (Module B)

Trauma-Informed Champions

Topics covered in this session include:

· What Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are, and their later life outcomes

· Introduction to brain development and trauma

· The importance of attunement and attachment, and how both develop

· Experiences that can cause trauma and immediate and long-term impact of trauma on behavioural, health and other outcomes

· Vicarious and secondary trauma

· What trauma does to a person’s worldview

· How trauma and fear affect a person’s interactions with authority

· What protective factors are and how they help us to build resilience

· The importance of a relationship with a key adult

· Breaking the intergenerational cycle of adversity

Topics covered in this session include:

· Why implement Trauma-informed practice and its potential impacts

· Principles underpinning Trauma-informed practice

· Trauma-informed language, behaviour and reactions

· How to respond to produce positive outcomes

· How to identify how aspects of service delivery could become trauma-informed

· How to implement trauma-informed practice throughout them

· Tools and materials to support implementation

· Ensuring effective support for staff

· Self-care strategies

· How to avoid re-traumatisation and enhance prevention efforts

· Successful examples of trauma-informed practice

For people who have already completed these trainings or other similar ones, we are also offering 2 sessions about becoming a champion of trauma-informed approaches in your work on the dates below. More information attached.

If interested, or would like to nominate someone in your team, please email [email protected] and I can send over the registration link.

1. ~~30^th March 10am-4pm~~

2. 13^th June 10am-4pm

Additional support is available for applying the learning from the trainings including:

Monthly Q&A sessions
A Facebook Group for discussing trauma-informed practice with other staff
Resources: Attached folder of the resources that the training provider has shared in case it is useful to you and others.
There is also a Trauma-Informed Community of Practice in Tower Hamlets which meets about every 6 weeks to share knowledge and enable collaboration. Please email me and / or [email protected] to join.