Instructor’s Edition: Tending the Roots Training

Purpose 
The primary purpose of this initiative is to increase trauma informed training capacity statewide by creating a network of available trainers and champions to increase awareness and effective response with respect to Trauma Informed Care (TIC) at the local and community level. 

Curriculum Goals

• Ensure a fundamental understanding of trauma, its prevalence, and effects.
• Provide strategies and interventions to build effective and sustainable TIC practices and environments.
• Develop an understanding of the intersection of trauma and oppression.
• Promote strategies to address social determinants of health in order to reduce inequities and disparities at individual and systemic levels
• Encourage organizations to build internal capacity that sustains trauma responsive care and the ability to train their workforce.