Workshops for Service Providers

Trauma Informed

Klinic Community Health Centre with funding from the Department of Health and Healthy Living has developed a two-day training and half day workshop designed to enhance the capacity of organizations and individual clinicians to deliver trauma-informed services and individual counselling. 

 

1)  Trauma Informed Care Workshop (1/2 day) 

This half-day interactive workshop is for individual service organizations and their employees.  The workshop leads participants in a conversation about what is trauma, what it means to be trauma-informed and how to integrate a trauma-informed perspective into our everyday interactions.

Half-day workshop:  $50 honorarium               Full-day workshop:  $100 honorarium
 
For more information and to schedule a Trauma-Informed Care workshop please contact Holly Lowet; hlowe@klinic.mb.ca or 1-204-784-4091.

 

2)  Trauma-informed Counselling Training (2-day)

This two-day interactive and dynamic training is for service providers with training and experience in counselling, and a basic understanding of the counselling and recovery process. The training invites participants to explore new paradigms and challenge the traditional understanding of the recovery and healing process.  This training shifts the focus away from a position of "What is wrong with you?" to one that seeks to understand "What has happened to you and how can I help?" This exploration of trauma-informed counselling differs from a more traditional hierarchical/expert approach to one of curiosity, partnership and empowerment

Building on material already covered in the "Trauma-Informed Tool Kit" (www.trauma-informed.ca), the training provides participants with a better understanding of the impact of trauma, with particular emphasis on the relationship between trauma, emotions, neurobiology and recovery within supportive relationships. Participants examine their own understanding of healing and the role they play in facilitating this process in the context of trauma.  The training provides practical tools for assisting people to better understand and regulate intense emotions.  Each participant will receive a DVD that provides examples of various grounding techniques as well as a resource guide on trauma. Participants learn how to talk about trauma with clients/patients and build a therapeutic relationship that empowers trauma survivors and gives them control of their own healing. Over the course of the two days, service providers learn how they care for their own emotional self and protect themselves from the affects of vicarious trauma. At the end of the training participants will feel more confident and equipped to support people affected by trauma through the counselling and recovery process.
Follow-up sessions will be scheduled to examine how participants have been able to integrate what they have learned, discuss what challenges they have experienced, and address new questions that may have arisen for them since the training.

There is a registration fee of $50 for this two-day training. Each training session will be limited to twenty participants.  These sessions will take place in Winnipeg on the following dates: 
1) 
 September 13 & 14, 2010
2)  September 20 & 21, 2010
3)  October 18 & 19, 2010
4)  November 15 & 16, 2010
5)  February 14 & 15, 2011
6)  March 21 & 22, 2011

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  
Contact Leslie at 784-4206 or email ldebrecen@klinic.mb.ca .

 

New – Broadening Our Lens of Violence in Intimate Relationships

Dates:    October 6 & 7, 2010
              December 1 & 2, 2010
              February 9 & 10, 2011
              May 25 & 26, 2011

Session Times:  9:00am to 4:00pm         Cost:  $100 / person

Klinic's Evolve program offers a two-day workshop on family violence.  This interactive workshop explores the many dimensions of relationships and the complexities of family violence.  The training is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to reflect on the meaning they give relationships and how that translates into a perspective on family violence.  The training looks beyond labels of victim/perpetrator to examine the multiple layers of family violence.

Participants will be provided with the necessary tools to construct multiple vantage points from which to have a more unobstructed and panoramic view of family violence and a greater understanding of the uniqueness of each family, person and situation.  Participants will acquire skills for supporting people through this process of change and recovery.

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ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)

Dates:    June 2 & 3, 2010 (Wed & Thurs)
              October 27 & 28, 2010 (Wed & Thurs)
              November 27 & 28, 2010 (Sat & Sun)
              February 23 & 24, 2011 (Wed & Thurs)

Session Times: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Cost:  $75 / person
Facilitators: Holly Lowe, Kristi Aubry, Tara Carlson, Donna Reid
ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) is a standardized 2-day introductory suicide intervention training developed by Livingworks in Calgary and is put on throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia.  ASIST “is for caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide”.  This basic training is mandatory for employment in many community agencies throughout Manitoba, and has been offered at Klinic since November 2006.

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Advanced Suicide Prevention Training: Level II

Winnipeg:   November 2 & 3, 2010
                    April 18 & 19, 2011                            

Session Times:  9:00am to 4:00pm                    Cost:  $225 / person

Few clients challenge us more then clients struggling with suicide.  Suicidal clients are dealing with deep and profound pain that can cause the service provider to feel overwhelmed and inadequate.  The responsibility is great, and we are expected to assess the situation accurately, and the pressure is on us to help the client stay safe and alive.  Given the gravity of the situation, it is paramount that we possess best practice and current suicide assessment and intervention information and skills. The Advanced Suicide Prevention Training (ASPT) explores these areas in-depth, going beyond the basics and towards more detailed assessment and intervention strategies to support clients on their road to healing. The training also covers the link between trauma and suicide and the importance of trauma-informed assessment.  Relationship building and the impact of the work on providers is also a central focus.
Participants must have at least one of the following pre-requisites to attend the Advanced Suicide Prevention training:

  • Introduction to Suicide Prevention, Klinic Suicide Prevention Series
  • ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
  • Klinic’s Volunteer Crisis Intervention Training Program
  • Possess basic knowledge and practice in suicide prevention and intervention

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