Thursday, April 17 20259:00 AM - 4:00 PMDirect Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara
Attend our FREE Adverse Childhood Experience Study (ACEs) Trauma-Informed Workshop! Thanks to a grant from the City of Goleta and funding from SBCAN, you have the opportunity to discover your nonprofit organization’s potential to efficiently serve our community.
Join us for this transformative learning experience guided by Susan Jones of Creative Behavior Systems to better integrate ACEs and resilience science into our own lives, practice, and in larger organizational systems change to build a more nurturing, safe, and supportive community. This work begins with how we perceive and practice. This work begins with us.
What you will learn:
- How to maximize your capacity to better serve low-income and houseless individuals
- How to maximize your staff’s capacity to better communicate with those facing or having faced adversity
- How to better understand our stress-response system
- How our communication correlates to lived experiences for self and others
- Many tools and strategies for calming both overwhelmed staff and community members
The workshop will be broken down into 3 parts:
1. Trauma: Understanding basics of behavior and stress, from daily life experiences to toxic levels and adversity while connecting to daily practices within systems we work and live.
2. The Tool Box: Understanding how to utilize and integrate tools of individual and organizational resilience through restorative, safe, stable and nurturing systems of care with practices of regulation, mindful, self-care, communication, perception, and attachment-focused tools.
3. It’s A Practice, Frameworks, Discussion: Review of Trauma Aware, ACEs Science Implementation Plan within your current practices. Organizational implementation of trauma informed systems of support from individuals through agencies. Plan, structure and practice within current systems, what it looks like within your working environment. Tools, follow up check-ins and sustainability barrier break throughs.
