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Risking Connection™(RC) is a foundational trauma training curriculum and training program for professionals who work with trauma survivors. Rooted in relational and attachment theory, it provides a mechanism for individuals and organizations to implement trauma-informed care in their practice.
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The Restorative Approach® (RA) is a trauma-informed alternative to traditional "point and level" systems for child congregate care settings. Based on the principles of restorative justice, it translates what we know about trauma and how children heal into specific treatment strategies.
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Upcoming Events
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RC Trainer In-Person Consult Group -- March 6, 9:30-12
DATE: Mar 6TIME: 12:00 am
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Risking Connection 3-Day Basic Training -- March 14-16
DATE: Mar 14TIME: 12:00 am
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RC Trainer In-Person Consult Group -- May 8, 9:30-12
DATE: May 8TIME: 9:30 am
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RC Trainer In-Person Consult Group -- March 6, 9:30-12
Building healing relationships with children and families by promoting excellence in trauma-informed treatment.
The Traumatic Stress Institute is a division of Klingberg Family Centers
Whole System Transformation to Trauma Informed Care (TIC)
Increasingly, child-serving organizations are acknowledging the profound impact of childhood trauma and attachment disruptions on the lives of the clients they serve. Moreover, they are finding that their current models of working with these ever-more complex young people are not as effective as hoped and, without more clinically sophisticated models, they are struggling to keep beds full. Without more tools, programs fall back on the use of restraint and seclusion as well as other control-oriented measures that can re-traumatize children.
To meet these challenges, more and more organizations nationally and internationally are transforming their treatment approach to ones that are trauma-informed. Trauma-informed care is the provision of treatment that recognizes the profound consequences of trauma for youth and offers interventions that address both trauma-related symptoms and their underlying cause.
Providing trauma-informed treatment is more than just doing trauma assessments or providing trauma therapy. Truly embracing trauma-informed care involves a whole systems shift in organizational culture.
TSI assists child-serving agencies in making this challenging and rewarding change by working with organizational leadership to plan for and facilitate the change. We guide organizations in implementing a staff trauma training model called Risking Connection.® And, for congregate care settings, we help them employ the Restorative Approach,™ a model for translating trauma-informed principles into a behavior management system that is an alternative to traditional point and level systems.
Trauma-informed care has enabled agencies to reduce restraints and seclusions, decrease negative discharges, decrease staff turnover, and improve outcomes for children and families as well as position themselves to attract more referrals in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
The Process
I. Organizational Leadership Consultation and Training
II. Organizational Assessment and Development of Organizational Action Plan
III. Initial 3-Day Basic Risking Connection Training
IV. Meeting with Organization Task Force
V. Restorative Approach Training (for congregate care settings)
VI. Risking Connection Train-the-Trainer
VII. Follow-up Consultations on Organizational Action Plan