Free Trauma-informed Care Training Courses and Resources
Trauma-informed care is not just crucial; it's empowering. It provides a supportive, empathetic, and caring environment where children can take control of their healing journey. This approach, with its many benefits, from improving early help practice to reducing emergency care visits, is a powerful tool for adults who care for them, empowering them to make a real difference in their communities.
What is Trauma-informed Care
Trauma-informed care is not just crucial; it's empowering. It provides a supportive, empathetic, and caring environment where children can take control of their healing journey. This approach, with its many benefits, from improving early help practice to reducing emergency care visits, is a powerful tool for adults who care for them, empowering them to make a real difference in their communities.
Free Trauma-informed Training Courses
Thrive LDN: The Gift of Reconnection: Trauma-Informed Practice training
Thrive LDN has partnered with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to offer free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations. [access free training]
The Trauma Toolbox Online Certification
Are you ready to elevate your expertise in trauma-informed care? Join our community of dedicated professionals from nonprofits, public health, and education by becoming a patron sponsor of our Trauma Toolbox! Gain exclusive access to a premium version of our course, along with a wealth of resources designed to enhance your skills and impact. [access free training]
Trauma informed training
Merseyside's Violence Reduction Partnership runs trauma informed training focused on supporting public sector organisations to understand how psychological trauma can impact individuals and ensure they consider the implications for their services. [access free training]
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing
Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available. [access free training]
Free Online Trauma Courses
These free online trauma courses have everything you need to learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological trauma. Emotional or psychological trauma is the result of experiencing extraordinarily stressful events which can leave you feeling helpless, exceeding your ability to cope or deal with those emotions. If you're looking for help understanding trauma, start here [access free training]
Free Trauma-informed Resources
UK Trauma Council
Resources to support individuals and organisations working to nurture and protect children and young people following trauma. You will find articles, animations, videos, guidance, handouts, presentations and more — all created by the UK’s leading childhood trauma experts.[access free resource]
Research in Practice
A trauma can be defined as a physical or emotional experience that has had an adverse impact on an adult, child or young person’s wellbeing. The effects of trauma may not always be significant or long-lasting. However, for some the impact stays with them throughout the life course. Trauma-informed approaches should be strengths-based and require practitioners to have an understanding of, and responsiveness to, the causes and effects of trauma. [access free resource]
Trauma Infomed Lancashire
We have a range of resources available to support you on your trauma informed journey. Be sure to check back as our resources library grows and contact us if there are resources you would like to see included. [access free resource]
National Trauma Transformation Programme
The National Trauma Transformation Programme (NTTP) is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered in partnership with COSLA, NHS Education for Scotland (NES), the Improvement Service (IS) and the Resilience Learning Partnership (RLP). [access free resource]
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
NCTSN.org is a resource for the public, professionals, and others who care about children and are concerned about child traumatic stress. [access free resource]
Addressing trauma and adversity
We all face challenging situations during our childhood which is a normal part of growing up. However, some children grow up in environments and experiences that they are unable to cope with, which can have a long-lasting effect on their development, learning, health, and behaviour. These resources help you support those children and young people. [access free resource]
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care recognizes and responds to the signs, symptoms, and risks of trauma to better support the health needs of patients who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. [access free resource]