Centering Collective Trauma Care & Healing (Non-CEU)

This training will explore ways to center collective care, healing, and wellbeing to address the manifestation of trauma, trauma reactions, and trauma integration within the lives of child, adolescent, and youth client systems.

Participants will be grounded in the principles of a Trauma Informed Care approach in working with potentially traumatized and hurting client systems. Taking a universal precautions approach, participants will explore concrete ways they can engage in centering collective care and healing to set the stage for culturally responsive trauma interventions.

Diving into the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and considering the embodiment of trauma, training participants will explore innovative approaches to treating trauma, with a focus on family and culturally bound healing interventions.

This course was developed in May 2023.

This course is constructed as reading-based and noninteractive.

Objectives

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Assess the clinical manifestations of trauma responses in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)/2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, plus allies and others on the gender/sexual identity continuum) client systems
• Describe what a culturally sensitive and informed behavioral health care approach for trauma interventions can look like with pediatric and transitional aged client systems in their field/work settings
• Articulate three strategies you can personally apply to be more effective in the provision of trauma-informed care

Developed by Dr. Lois Marie Clay Stepney, PhD, MSW, LISW-S

Assistant Clinical Faculty, The Ohio State University College of Social Work

Dr. Lois Marie Clay Stepney, PhD, MSW, LISW-S, newly appointed to an Assistant Clinical Faculty role in the College of Social Work, is a passionate adult educator who has taught social work practice courses in the College of Social Work for the past 21 years. Ms. Stepney has utilized her social work skills in the Columbus, OH community working primarily with children, adolescents, and their adult caregivers for most of her 28 years in the profession. She has clinical, administrative, and supervisory experience. Dr. Stepney’s research and professional presentation interests align with addressing the promotion and realization of collective care and healing, resilience, financial, spiritual, relational, and emotional wellbeing especially for helping professionals and the client systems they serve.

Evaluations will be immediately accessible upon completion of the required course content. Certificate of completion will be available to download once the evaluation is submitted.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. You may request accommodation or inquire about accessibility as part of the Zoom registration process. Please contact us at cswce@osu.edu should you need further assistance.