- People with IDD are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of violent crime compared to people who are not disabled (Harrell, 2017)
- 31% of children with IDD suffer child abuse compared to 9% of non-disabled children (Sullivan & Knudson, 2000)
- 14% of direct care staff admitted to acts of violence against adults with IDD and 35% said they had witnessed such violence (Strand, Benzein, & Saveman, 2004)
Yet few IDD organizations train their staff about trauma, address trauma in the people they support, or recognize how re-traumatization can happen in their programs.
Trauma-informed care (TIC), widely viewed as best practice in the human services, refers to a whole-system approach to addressing the reality of trauma in the people being supported through staff training, trauma-specific treatments, trauma-inform behavioral support, and policy changes. Implementation of TIC has been shown to increase staff retention, decrease restraints, and decrease abuse allegations.
FREE Webinar
Join us on April 18th for a 60-minute webinar that will ground you in the basics of TIC as it applies to IDD organizations and systems. But more importantly, it will discuss how TIC could strengthen your organization, offer a model for implementing TIC, AND explain how to determine your readiness to make this rewarding (and challenging) change.
You will walk away from the webinar with a TIC readiness assessment tool to take back to your organization to evaluate whether this change is right for you - click here to register.
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