The Center's training programs integrate political and popular education methodologies, emphasizing a learner-centered, participatory approach. We combine this with up-to-date research to encourage participants to critically analyze their surroundings. Through these sessions, attendees learn to implement innovative strategies for creating trauma-informed, healing-centered, resilient, and liberated spaces.

• Introduction to Individual and Collective Trauma and Healing

This workshop provides participants with a foundational understanding of individual and collective trauma, coupled with healing techniques. Beginning with an overview of trauma research and theoretical frameworks, participants learn actionable methods for fostering healing environments within their organization

• Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Workshop for Front Line Workers

This workshop provides participants with essential internal tools to cultivate healing spaces and facilitate transformative encounters, empowering clients to enact positive changes in their lives. By addressing collective trauma's impact on communities and families, attendees learn strategies to counteract it and establish a healing-centered culture within their organization. This training marks the initial phase towards developing a trauma-informed and healing-centered organization, initiating a transformative journey.

• Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Financial Coaching

Money is intricately woven into the fabric of life. When individuals seek financial coaching, it often unveils deeply rooted traumas such as domestic violence, unemployment, and discrimination as underlying causes of financial distress. This training is designed to equip participants with the necessary tools to provide empathetic financial support and coaching, without re-traumatizing their clients. By integrating emotional support into financial coaching, individuals can achieve improved financial success.

• Ethics of Boundaries and Dual Relationships

This workshop offers participants a platform to delve into ethical dilemmas and navigate questions surrounding professional and personal boundaries with clients. Guided by their organization's policies, attendees will craft boundaries that resonate authentically and comfortably with them. Drawing from best practices, research insights, and expert advice, participants will be empowered to make informed decisions, ensuring ethical conduct and fostering positive client relationships.

• Run Your Own Community Meeting

The Sanctuary Model's Community Meeting is a powerful tool that brings calm, focus, and emotional grounding to meetings, enhancing efficiency and overall experience. Through our training, participants will learn how to effectively implement Community Meeting, reducing trauma and stress responses in clients and staff. This newfound skill will lead to more productive meetings and improved workspaces.

• Systems Checks: Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Conflict Resolution

Building a trauma-informed organization requires addressing inherent conflict and tension within human groups. Conflict, when managed constructively, drives authentic progress. Our training introduces the Systems Check tool by HopeWorks (adapted from The Sanctuary Model's Red Flag Meetings). Participants learn how to implement Systems Checks effectively, promoting positive, open communication in the workplace.

• TANF History and Context: A Political Education

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) stands as a vital public assistance program and safety net for individuals experiencing poverty, domestic violence, discrimination, and various socio-economic and health crises. Our workshop delves into TANF's historical evolution, examining its inception in a political and social context. Participants gain insights into the program's racially and economically biased origins, exploring how these factors impact its contemporary perception and efficacy. Moreover, the workshop offers actionable strategies to address and mitigate these biases, fostering a more equitable and effective implementation of TANF.

• Financial Self-empowerment

What is financial self-empowerment? Our workshop equips participants with the tools to cultivate their clients' self-esteem, consciousness, and motivation, leading to improved financial and personal outcomes..

Additional trainings are developed regularly, and individualized training opportunities can be created to meet an organization's needs. Future training topics may include:

• Human Connection across Anti-Blackness in the Welfare System
• Creating a Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Organization: A Workshop for Organization Leadership

More Information

Interested in finding out more or developing a program customized to your team's needs? Email Alie Huxta at agh38@drexel.edu to schedule a meeting to explore how your organization can become more trauma-informed and healing-centered in your work.