Directions For Youth and Families Becoming a Trauma Informed, Resiliency Based Organization

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Directions For Youth and FamiliesBecoming a
Trauma Informed, Resiliency Based Organization

• Presented by Duane Casares, CEO,
• Corinne Byers, Gary Smith, John Cervi

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Macro Level

• Agency decision
• Management team involvement
• Selecting the model
• Funding resources positioning
• Board by-in
• Education, mission connection, process
• Costs
• Training
• Loss of productivity
• Cost of staying idle

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Where did we start?

• How to be Trauma Informed and Resiliency Based?
• Researched and reviewed material, consulted with
  outside entities for about one year before we
  made any decisions.
• Does it fit in with our mission?
• We focused on a research driven, evidence
  informed approach without feeling like we had to
  be scripted.

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The best fit?

• Flexibility in our treatment model approach.
• What fits best with our current treatment
  delivery approach.
• How can we continue to utilize our current
  clinical staff and managers.
• After settling on a our treatment framework/model
  we started the process of training and
  implementation.

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The beginnings of implementation

• Implementation of the new model throughout the
  agency.
• We began with talking to our direct service staff
  about our plans to move towards this
  framework/model approach.
• All of our staff completed a trauma informed
  pre/post self-assessment tool.

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The start..

• We started with a two-day, all day training with
  all of our treatment staff, managers, etc.
• A one day in person, clinical management
  training, with the trainer.
• For the next twelve months the training was
  ongoing at both the clinical staff and management
  level with our trainers.

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Ongoing training

• Case presentations two times a month with our
  clinical treatment staff and managers,
  facilitated by the outside trainer through
  conference calls.
• Management Training consisted of monthly
  conference calls with all of our Clinical
  Managers.
• Individual teams completed one hour, bi-weekly
  meetings that focused on trauma/resiliency.

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Ongoing training..

• Individual supervision with clinical staff and
  their manager on a bi-weekly basis.
• Clinical group meetings are held bi-weekly for
  licensed staff that are seeking advanced
  training.

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Additional infusion..

• All of our program descriptions, grant writing,
  and collaborators needed to be updated regarding
  our new framework/model.
• All of our clinical paperwork had to be updated
  to include our new framework/model.
• Our daily clinical talk by staff and managers
  needed to move towards our framework/model.

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Additional infusion..

• At the intake level with clients we explained our
  focus and purpose of treatment.
• New staff that are hired go through a
  mini-training on our framework/model.
• Ongoing monthly trainings will occur for new
  staff for one year.
• Agency wide quarterly trainings to provide
  sustainability to the model.

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Continued infusion goals.

• Ongoing evaluation of the program management
  staff to insure the framework/model are being
  implemented at the individual worker level.
• Ensuring all grant proposals and agency
  information that is disseminated to the community
  is telling our story and framework/model.

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Continued infusion goals.

• New policy statement, branding, and marketing our
  new framework/model.
• Ongoing evaluation and action steps to ensure we
  are adhering to the continual implementation of
  our framework/model at all levels of the agency.
• Questions?