Summary - IN-PERSON: Trauma-Informed Supervision: Using What We Know About Trauma to Better Supervise Staff (556)

Summary

Over the past 20 years, many organizations have implemented trauma-informed services for clients. However, trauma impacts staff as well as clients, and a trauma-informed approach to supervision is less common and often less explicit. This training explores the application of a trauma-informed lens to the supervisory relationship, as well as tools to manage the most common challenges of supervision. Participants in this training will be able to identify the impact of trauma on their staff, integrate the principles of trauma-informed care into supervision, improve their ability to give and receive feedback, and take a strengths-based approach to supervision

Learning Objectives:

Recognize how direct and vicarious trauma impacts staff’s ability to deliver quality services
Integrate trauma-informed care into supervision
Name three positive outcomes for organizations that provide effective supervision
Improve ability to give and receive feedback
Gain tools to support moving from peer to supervisor roles

Target Audience

The target audience for this training includes those providing non-clinical services across the BSAS continuum of care including substance use harm reduction, recovery, housing/homelessness, and treatment staff (non-clinicians), recovery coaches, recovery specialists, and other non-clinical professionals. 