How Can Human Service Leaders Create & Implement Trauma-Informed Leadership & Management Practices? 

The human service workforce generally reflects higher rates of childhood adversity and trauma than other sectors. This can be an asset to organizations in that workers with lived experience are especially motivated to help others heal and become more resilient. To fully realize this potential, organizations need to create workplace environments that are safe and inclusive for all staff. This workshop will focus on ways that human service leaders can create an organizational culture where trauma-informed leadership and management practices are implemented to foster healing and resilience for both staff and clients.

About the Presenters:

Steve Brown, Psy.D., is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers. A clinical psychologist, he is a primary architect of TSI’s internationally-recognized whole-system change process to trauma-informed care. He is a co-creator, with Dr. Courtney Baker, of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale, one of the first psychometric measures of TIC. He trains professionals nationally on psychological trauma and trauma-informed care.  In addition to being a psychologist, he is a long time sexuality educator/trainer and author of Streetwise to Sex-Wise: Sexuality Education for High Risk Youth, a sexuality education curricula used internationally by agencies and schools serving high risk youth.

John Engel is a Program Coordinator for the Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers where he serves as a trainer and consultant for client agencies adopting whole system change to trauma-informed care and facilitates strategic change initiatives within TSI. Additionally, John is the Executive Director of MERGE for Equality, which promotes healthy masculinity and male engagement in gender equality, and is a Writer, authoring ‘The Fatherhood Journey’, a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, with 80 columns and counting.