Toolkit
Description
Understanding Trauma and Stress
The Issue
Without understanding trauma, we are more likely to misinterpret trauma-related behaviors as willful, “sick,” or “crazy,” which can lead to ineffective, stigmatizing, and/ or punitive reactions towards trauma-impacted people.
The Solution
Understanding how trauma and stress can affect individual neurophysiology, relational interactions, and organizational functioning can help to reframe otherwise confusing, aggravating, or fear-producing behaviors. Shifting our perspective from “What is wrong with you?” to “What has happened to you?” can lead to more compassionate, strength-based, and effective responses to trauma-impacted people and communities that support healing and mitigate harm.
Training and Consultation for Mental Health Leaders
This professional development and consultation series bolsters school-based mental health providers to deliver classroom-based (Tier I) supports and trauma-informed consultation (Tier I-II) with educators and staff to strengthen school-wide supports.
Administrator and Site Leader Consultation
HCC offers ongoing, monthly group consultation for school administrators and site leaders following a peer-to-peer consultation protocol, applying trauma-informed principles to specific dilemmas or concerns faced by school leadership.
Cultural Humility and Equity
Issue
Racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and other forms of societal oppression can be trauma-inducing and push communities of people out of schools, systems of care, and other organizations.
Solution
When we are open to reckoning with the trauma and adversity caused by historical and present-day structural oppressions and hold ourselves accountable to counteracting these forces as individuals and institutions, we can work together to mitigate these harms and to foster equity and belonging for all of us
Custom Training and Consultation
We offer custom consultation and resource development to support program and systems leaders to integrate trauma-informed principles into program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Talk with our team to design a program that works for you.
