About This Resource
These sessions were part of the 2024 Building Trauma-Informed Workplaces: Principles, Practices, and Real-World Insights
Series Overview
The Building Trauma-Informed Workplaces: Principles, Practices, and Real-World Insights series is designed to explore the specifics how trauma informed care can be an integral part of your employment social enterprise.
Topics include:
- Principles of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC)
- Understanding how trauma-informed approaches impact programming
- The critical connection between TIC and one’s approach to managing conflict, and
- Real-world practices and tools participants use to show up ready for success.
By the end of the series, attendees will be equipped to create more supportive, effective, and trauma-informed environments.
To bring the learnings to life, we’re thrilled to be joined by ESE leaders, participants, and consultants with deep expertise in employment social enterprise trauma-informed care.
Session Descriptions
Too often, implementation of trauma-informed practices at organizations consists of a bunch of trainings followed by little organizational change, and small, if any, changes in organizational performance.
Throughout Hopeworks’ two sessions, they detail the difference between becoming a “trauma-aware” organization (one that does the same things it always did but uses the language of trauma to describe it in new ways) and an actually trauma-informed organization (one in which outcomes and performance are radically different from using trauma informed tools).
These two trainings are not a series of slides or talking heads. Instead, Hopeworks young adults who have experienced the org’s trauma-informed approach will share what trauma-informed practices look like “on the ground,” separating knowledge from action.
How Trauma-Informed Programming Impacts the Workplace (Session 3)
Hopeworks young adults will talk about how Hopeworks’ trauma-informed approach really shows up in their experience and workplace. They will be bringing their lived experience of Hopeworks programming and methodology to the descriptions we often hear in more clinical trauma trainings.
Practical Tools for Thriving at Work: Strategies to Deal w/Trauma (Session 4)
Hopeworks young adults will talk about some of the practices and tools that they are actually using each day to show up more ready for work and more prepared to succeed in the workplace.
This session is ideal for:
- This session is ideal for employees, managers, and supervisors in Employment Social Enterprises (ESEs) who are looking to support team members dealing with trauma.
- It’s particularly valuable for those interested in learning practical, real-world strategies to improve workplace readiness and performance among individuals who have experienced trauma.
Below is the session recordings and accompanying materials
How Trauma-Informed Programming Impacts the Workplace (Session 3)
Practical Tools for Thriving at Work: Strategies to Deal w/Trauma (Session 4)
About Hopeworks
Hopeworks provides a positive, healing atmosphere that propels young people to build strong futures and break the cycle of violence and poverty in Camden, New Jersey.
We connect young adults to life-changing opportunities where their growing technology skills go to work for enterprising businesses within our community. The real-world, on-the-job experience they gain raises their potential and benefits our partners.
With a focus on skill development, real-world job experience, and trauma-informed care, Hopeworks propels young adults into long-term living wage careers that put them on the path for healing and financial stability.
Below are Linkedin profiles of Site Director, Lawrence Burden and the young professionals from Hopeworks who were guest speakers during these sessions.