Trauma-Informed Care – 2021 April’s Workshop

Thank you for joining us on Wednesday, April 28th, 2021, for our Trauma-Informed Care Workshop featuring Rigo Contreras, LPC, CADC III, Mental Health Specialist III for Health, Housing, and Human Services with Clackamas County. Below are some helpful videos, TED Talks, Trauma Toolkit document, and book recommendations that go along and support April’s workshop.

Missed the workshop or want to watch it again? Watch the recording HERE!

In Rigo’s presentation on Trauma-Informed Care, we focused on how to help a triggered camper or staff. Many of you are already familiar with trauma-informed care – in fact, it’s something we actively practice at Camp! Trauma-informed care recognizes that many of us – campers and staff – have had significant traumas in our lives, realizes that sometimes our behaviors have built as a response to that trauma, and reminds us to care for one another in a way that acknowledges (and doesn’t provoke) that past trauma.

Here are the two handouts that Rigo mentioned at the end of his presentation: Supporting Survivors and Guide to Helping Children Cope After a Traumatic Event

Learn More
Watch: Wired for Danger: The Effects of Childhood Trauma on the Brain, the effects of divorce on children, and one person’s story on how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affected their life.

TED Talks: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime and How Did Your Parents Mess You Up?

First Book Resources: How Educators Can Support Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Trauma Toolkit: Tools to Support the Learning & Development of Students Experiencing Childhood & Adolescent Trauma

Book Recommendations: A Child Called ‘It’: One Child’s Courage to Survive by David Pelzer and The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.