DOMAIN 5: SECONDARY TRAUMATIC STRESS–INFORMED TRAINING
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Strategies:
- Ensure that STS training content acknowledges that many providers come to the work with their own traumas (personal, historical, and/or ethno-racial trauma) and that the work can be triggering. Training should also help providers understand how STS may intersect with personal and/or historical trauma and suggest skills to help them manage this.
Implementation Resources:
Online Learning
- “Secondary Traumatic Stress: Understanding the Impact on Professionals in Trauma-Exposed Workplaces”5 is an extensive training on STS developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) that incorporates the intersections of STS with identity, culture, race, and historical trauma. The training includes diverse case vignettes that illustrate some of these intersections as well as reflective exercises and relevant strategies for providers and organizations. Users will need to create an account to access this curriculum.
- “The Intersections of STS with Racism, Historical Trauma, and Other Systems of Oppression,” is a 90-minute webinar from the Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center that explores how historical trauma and ethno-racial trauma can impact providers and provides strategies for individuals and organizations to address the impact of STS on providers who hold marginalized identities. (Access is free, but you need to create a user login to access the webinar. Once logged in, search for “The Intersections of STS with Racism, Historical Trauma, and Other Systems of Oppression”.)
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