Applying Anti-Racism to Trauma-Informed Care

While numerous trauma-informed care professionals look at trauma-informed care with a general lens, a framework that accounts for cultural adverse childhood experience (C-ACES) details the effects of racism to propose a culturally-informed adaptation of adverse childhood experiences (ACES). This considers potentially traumatizing events, including discrimination and community violence that many children and youth of color experience. This training explores concepts related to the recognition of Cultural ACES (C-ACES) and implementation, including policy and practice.

This training is like no other trauma-informed care training, as it applies the Cultural ACES framework, in addition to an anti-racist lens, every step of the way while also providing participants with information on forming a trauma-informed community network to break silos in participants’ communities.

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Chlo'e Edwards is a Community Advocate, Activist, and CEO of Chlo'e Edwards Consulting Brands known as Transformative Changes. Her personal values contribute to her mission to evoke social and systems change in pursuit of justice. She centers opportunities for community transformation through practices centered in truth telling, healing-centered engagement, reconciliation, and repair. Chlo'e serves in a variety of roles to ignite change. She is a Master Trauma & Resilience Trainer, Racial Equity Facilitator, Healing-Centered Engagement Practitioner, Digital Storytelling Facilitator, Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT-200), and Social Emotional Learning Facilitator (SEL*F).

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All VOCAL trainings are "first come, first serve." We encourage all interested individuals to register as soon as possible in order to secure a seat in the training.

VOCAL can offer a limited number of free tickets to this event. If you think you might qualify, contact Jessica Daggett, REACH Program Director, at jessica@vocalvirginia.org.