Building Your Trauma and Resilience Informed Approach
Delve into a wide variety of resources to support your trauma and resilience informed approach to your life, work, and play environments. The content describes the foundations of trauma and resilience informed practices as well as tools to infuse into your everyday life. This is a curated collection of a variety of resources in multiple formats to meet your needs, regardless of the amount of time you have to explore. This collection is intended for all audiences.
Maintaining Professional Wellbeing
A look at the ways working with individuals who have experienced trauma can affect our professional wellbeing. Participants will explore the impact of secondary traumatic stress and learn strategies to enhance both personal and professional wellbeing.
Enhancing Professional Wellbeing
The Enhancing Professional Wellbeing course is designed to explore ways to maintain personal wellbeing, support a positive working environment, and reduce feelings of burnout. Learn about wellbeing from fellow LA County employees and explore fictional situations to gain strategies for supporting professional wellbeing.
Foundations for Building Family Resilience
FOCUS (Families Over Coming Under Stress) is used to teach strategies for building resilience in families, within the context of each family's story and goals. Use the FOCUS techniques to help the families you work with to stay strong and support one another during times of stress or transition.
Kindness Counts: Strategies for Self-Compassion
An introduction to mindful self-compassion as a research-based tool for reducing stress, building resilience, and enhancing wellbeing in the workplace.
Looking Through a Trauma and Resilience Informed Lens
Designed for everyone, not just professionals who provide care, this course defines trauma and resilience informed care and reviews its six core principles. Throughout, evidence-based materials engage participants in active learning and assists them to reflect on their own experience and applications. Participants will be introduced to the pervasiveness of stress and trauma as well as the benefits of approaching situations from a trauma and resilience informed lens. These practices are applicable in a workplace setting as much as they are in our daily interactions ...
Shifting Perspectives: Adopting a Trauma & Resilience Informed Lens
Employing a trauma and resilience informed lens in your work requires practice. Take this course and learn alongside fictional county employees as they adopt and practice the core principles of trauma and resilience informed care to improve their interactions with the people around them in the “real world.” Consider how applying the skills taught in this video can enhance your current work practices.
The Impact of Trauma on the Brain and Pathways to Healing
Stress and trauma can take a significant toll on the minds and bodies of individuals and families. This course will provide an inside look at the potential impact that stress and trauma on the brain and how that affects everyday living. This course also highlights ways in which intentional healing can begin. A trauma and resilience informed lens is also described, supporting learners in ways to "focus on the wins."
Somatic Series: Widening Our Window of Tolerance
This pathway provides an overview of the Window of Tolerance and accessible, body-based mindfulness practices to support yourself or those in your communities. Learn how the Window of Tolerance concept applies to wellbeing and practical body-based strategies to support wellbeing, nervous system regulation, and a wider Window of Tolerance. This pathway includes explanations, examples, and opportunities for practice. Get ready for a different type of experience: after the first step of the pathway, the milestones will guide you through real-life practices. How to get ready to complete ...
A Look at Religion and Resilience
In an interview with Dr. Bill Nash, Katherine Brown-Saltzman recalls a time she mustered the energy to attend church while experiencing intense burnout at work as a nurse. During church, they read a story that spoke of Jesus feeding 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish. Katherine had heard this religious teaching her entire life, but on this day, she heard the story in an entirely new way.
Supporting Family Resilience
An unexpected or difficult event always has the potential to get us down; being resilient refers to our ability to move through tough times, grow and adapt in the face of stress, and support our overall wellbeing. Key skills that support resilience can be practiced as an individual or as a family. Communication, problem-solving, setting effective goals, and managing stress all contribute to resilience. Practicing skills that support resilience can be helpful, even when times are difficult. Here are a few of our favorite strategies.