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What is Trauma Informed Care?

Trauma Informed Care is a strengths-based, system-wide framework that is grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma, that emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone, including those with a history of trauma.  It emphasizes attention to safety, trustworthiness, and transparency, peer support and mutual self-help, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment, voice and choice, and cultural, historical, and gender issues.

What is a Trauma Informed Care Champion? 

An individual(s) trained specifically to take on roles as a trainer, mentor, coach, and/or advocate for a trauma-informed approach to ensure sustainability of a healing movement (Institute of Trauma Informed Care, 2021).

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QCTIC Meetings

The Quad Cities Trauma-Informed Consortium meets on the third Wednesday of each month from 9:00-10:00 a.m. virtually.

Equity Speaker’s Bureau

Often, when we hear the word "trauma" our first thought is a traumatic event, such as a car accident or assault, or one of the 10 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). In actuality, trauma encompasses much more than just these two things. Although it may be easier to recognize, prevent, and treat ACEs, our current understanding of trauma requires us to dig deeper. Creating healing communities requires us to move beyond "household" trauma to recognize the systems that have created and perpetuated these issues.

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