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Interactive Workshop

Community Organization and Social Administration

Using a Trauma Informed Community Development model to address the needs of oppressed populations

The social work faculty at a state university are working with local stakeholders to research how trauma impacts the local residents suffering from oppression and marginalization, including mental health, substance abuse, racism, and prejudice. The goal is to help local community service providers develop trauma informed service programs collabotately.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
  1. Develop knowledge of Trauma-informed Community Development (TICD) and its potential to enhance individual and community resilience factors while improving sustained health outcomes for all.
  2. Enhance skills of community engagement, organizing, capacity-building, while moving interventions further upstream to reduce the sources of trauma.
  3. Engage their hearts (emotions/affect) and minds (analytical/critical thinking skills) to work towards solutions involving complex historical and contemporary dynamics of disenfranchisement, oppression, white supremacy, and the imposition of power and privilege.