Trauma-Informed Practice

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Type of recognition

Assessed microcredential

Learning Objectives/Outcomes

1. Understand trauma, including systemic and intergenerational trauma.
2. Use more inclusive and decolonizing language in career conversations.
3. Recognize how power, privilege, and systems can influence people’s experiences.
4. Understand how the nervous system and emotional regulation can affect career and employment experiences.
5. Shift from focusing on individual deficits to recognizing strengths, relationships, and community resources.
6. Apply practical approaches for anti-oppressive, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed career conversations.

Learning Content

The five modules provide a solid grounding in trauma-informed practice including:

1. Understanding trauma, signs and signals;
2. Regulation and co-regulation, intake conversations, boundaries, the 7Fs of the Autonomic Nervous System;
3. Trauma-informed strategies, rest, navigating power and privilege;
4. Community resources, impact networks, Communities of Practice;
5. Applying trauma-informed practices to personal well-being, how to be a trauma-informed organization.

Assessment

Earners must successfully complete the knowledge checks embedded throughout each of the five modules to demonstrate their understanding as they progress through the material. A comprehensive multiple-choice assessment concludes each module; earners must achieve a minimum of 80% on each assessment.

Estimated learning effort

5 hours

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