Resilient Communities: A Trauma Informed Approach to Supporting Survivors is a workshop designed to elevate the community's preparedness to respond to survivors using a survivor-centered, empowerment-based, and trauma-informed approach. Equipping service providers to have an increased understanding of the complex factors survivors face helps to increase resiliency for survivors and decrease their likelihood of secondary victimization. Promoting self-care and coping strategies can help to decrease the impact of vicarious trauma on service providers and those providing survivor support.

Participants will leave the training with a better understanding of:

• domestic and sexual violence

• children who witness domestic violence

• trauma and the impact on the brain

• common coping strategies

• empathic language

• techniques to empower and support survivors

• trauma informed parenting techniques

• vicarious trauma and coping strategies for working with survivors

This course is approved by the NASW-Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative Approval #040522-03 for 5.5 CE Hours. This approval statement is for Resilience: Advocates for Ending Violence. Our mission is to respond to, reduce, and prevent domestic and sexual violence in Ottawa and Allegan Counties of Michigan.

Please direct all questions to Prevention@resiliencemi.org.