Training Overview
Over the last decade, trauma-informed care has gained widespread attention across service systems such as child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and beyond. Historically, these practices have focused on supporting organizations and staff in providing trauma-informed services to the clients they serve. Yet, in light of recent national and global challenges, it is clear that leaders themselves need a trauma-informed approach to sustain their teams, navigate moral distress, and lead with clarity in turbulent times.
This interactive webinar introduces a comprehensive trauma-informed leadership framework that integrates lessons from organizational science, implementation research, and the lived realities of today’s workforce. Participants will explore the seven core practices of trauma-informed leadership—Boundary setting, Reliability, Empathy, Accountability, Transparency, Cultural Humility, and Understanding Errors—and how these principles can be applied to both daily decision-making and long-term organizational change.
The session will provide leaders with:
- Concrete strategies to cultivate resilience and psychological safety in their teams.
- Tools for balancing compassion with accountability, so that care and high standards can coexist.
- Approaches for addressing moral distress and systemic stressors without burning out.
- Practical ways to integrate trauma-informed principles into supervision, communication, and organizational culture.
Designed for leaders across services and systems, this training emphasizes that trauma-informed leadership is not simply about client care—it is about how leaders model peace, purpose, and presence in every layer of organizational life.
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define the seven core practices of trauma-informed leadership and describe how they apply to leading teams in high-stress environments
- Apply at least three practical strategies to balance compassionate leadership with accountability, including ways to address moral distress, sustain workforce well-being, and create conditions for resilience and psychological safety
- Develop an action plan for integrating trauma-informed leadership principles into daily supervision, communication, and organizational culture to strengthen staff engagement and system-wide impact
Who should attend: Staff in leadership roles at family resource centers (FRCs), Child Abuse Prevention Councils (CAPCs), community-based organizations, and other child- and family-serving systems.
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