Trauma-Informed Care 101: Understanding Your Role in Creating a Trauma-Informed Environment

This course has been adapted from the CalTrin webinar, Trauma-Informed Care 101: Understanding Your Role in Creating a Trauma-Informed Environment, presented by Lisa Conradi, Psy.D. on August 3, 2023. This course will provide an overview of trauma-informed care and how it has been applied across child- and family-service settings. We will define trauma and trauma-informed care, discuss specific steps to creating a trauma-informed approach, and examine your role in this transformation. These steps include shifting organizational culture, creating a safe environment for staff and clients, addressing secondary traumatic stress at the individual and organizational levels, and implementing specific tasks within your organizational scope. Throughout the course, you will be encouraged to identify how you can personally implement some of these practices in your role.

In this course, we will:

1. Define a trauma-informed approach
2. Describe the steps to creating a trauma-informed agency
3. Outline the core principles of trauma-informed care within an agency setting
4. Identify ways in which you can apply trauma-informed principles within their specific role

Estimated time to complete this course: 45-60 minutes

Featured Presenter: Lisa Conradi, Psy.D.

Lisa Conradi, Psy.D. is the Executive Director at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital - San Diego. In this role, she oversees all programming at the Chadwick Center, a children’s advocacy center that houses one of the largest trauma treatment centers in the nation. She has significant experience in the field of child trauma and in supporting service systems to become more trauma-informed. She has led the implementation of trauma-focused evidence-based practices for children, adolescents, and their families and the development of resources designed to help systems become trauma-informed. She is a licensed clinical psychologist trained on evidence-based trauma-focused treatment practices, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Dr. Conradi received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and her graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, California. She is co-author of Trauma-Informed Assessment with Children and Adolescents: Strategies to Support Clinicians. 

This course has been adapted from a live CalTrin training. Text, images, and recordings created by the presenter of the source webinar are not individually credited. We have made every effort to appropriately credit all other text, images, and recordings. Please contact CalTrin if any content in this course has been incorrectly credited or for permission to use elements of this course.