Training Details

Trauma-Informed Practice: Building a Model for Trauma-informed Supervision

Purpose:

This session will explore how managers, supervisors, and directors can incorporate a trauma-informed approach to supervising their front-line staff, including those who serve in ancillary roles such as finance for whom trauma-informed supervision has often been overlooked. This session will utilize the best practices gleaned from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMSHA), as well as systemic changes that organizations have implemented to address this issue. This session will assist participants in developing their actionable next steps to add trauma-informed supervision to their organization’s repertoire to reduce stress, burnout, and re-traumatization. For supervision CEUs

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

Explore the importance of developing a trauma informed organization including trauma informed supervision of staff.
Understand a variety of tools which can be modified and incorporated into managing staff from a trauma-informed perspective
Develop an actionable next-steps plan to begin this work within your organization or to reinforce efforts currently being undertaken on this topic.

Event Cost:

$45.00

Event Information:

Thursday, March 20, 2025

9 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

In person at Helpline/Connections office, 118 Stover Drive, Delaware, OH 43015

About the Presenter(s):

Amy VanDyke, MSW, LSW, PhD

Dr. Amy VanDyke earned a Master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Ethics from Duquesne University. She has over two decades of program design and implementation experience both in social services and in ethics. Dr. VanDyke is a member of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), the European Society for the Philosophy and History in Medicine (ESPMH). She is an international speaker on ethics having made peer reviewed presentations in six countries and throughout the United States. Dr. VanDyke maintains teaching associations with the University of Pittsburgh and through the School of Social Work at The Ohio State University.

Social workers, case managers, and other helping professionals are often placed in the position of witnessing the trauma of those they serve. In doing so, they can experience secondary or tertiary trauma. Additionally, many in the helping professions entered into this work because of a personal experience of trauma which compelled them to work for social justice.