Trauma Informed Care with Unconscious Cultural Bias Reduction Training
How do we implement Trauma-informed Care practices into a primary care setting?
How do we screen universally for trauma?
What role does culture have in Trauma-informed Care?
What if we still have questions after we start our Trauma-informed Care program?
Montefiore Medical Group's Trauma-Informed Care full day interactive and experiential Training Institute will answer these questions and more. While the full day training will provide you with the psychoeducation and the methods you need to implement a trauma-informed care approach in primary care, you may need additional support during the implementation process. Therefore, in addition to the full day training, participants will also have access to three supplemental online trainings. This resource is a part of the full day registration fee.
OVERVIEW OF MONTEFIORE MEDICAL GROUP’S TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE PROGRAM
Montefiore has been providing general trauma-informed services since 2010. In 2015, with the support of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we designed and implemented a system-wide trauma-informed care program throughout our network of 21 primary care practices. Our Training Institute is aimed at:
- training primary care clinic employees (e.g., primary care providers, nurses, front desk staff) through online learning modules and in-person trainings led by behavioral health specialists;
- teaching a systematic way to identify and reduce your cultural biases as they relate to trauma
- implementing universal screening of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for patients utilizing a multidisciplinary primary care clinic team; and
- developing clinic-wide practices to promote staff wellness and prevent burnout.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Trauma-informed care approaches in healthcare settings means recognizing that patients often have many different types of trauma in their lives, understanding how this trauma history may manifest behaviorally in patients, and imparting a philosophy, culture, and understanding about trauma at an organizational and service level., A trauma-informed approach in healthcare aims to shift the question from, “What is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”, which can be particularly salient during challenging patient interactions. Trauma-informed care approaches also recognize the experiences of the workforce and focuses on ways to provide patient services while keeping the workforce healthy.
What is Unconscious Cultural Bias Reduction Training?
How we see others is often based on our experiences, especially traumatic experiences. Even for the most seasoned, well-intentioned practitioner, cultural factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality) are likely to elicit reactivity. Furthermore, the frequently changing cultural climate requires vigilance if prejudice, bias, and racism are to be mitigated. This training will introduce a systematic approach for providers to identify their biases, how they behave when triggered by patients’ culture, and techniques to manage these reactions.
What is Trauma-Informed Care with Cultural Bias Reduction?
Recognizing our patients have trauma in their lives, which are often related to their cultural identities (e.g., ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nationality) enhances our ability to provide trauma-informed care services. Additionally, it recognizes that how we perceive our patients and how our patients perceive us, all plays a role in primary care settings. This training offers a systematic approach to decreasing culture-based reactions to clients and colleagues in a fast-paced medical setting. In short, Montefiore’s Trauma-Informed Care Training Institute will help participants implement trauma-informed care in culturally relevant ways.
Learning Objectives
- Define trauma, ACEs and the impact of ACEs on later physical and social outcomes.
- Discuss the presence/frequency of ACEs in our population and the extent to which this can be classified as a serious public health problem in the Bronx.
- Discuss ways in which trauma may manifest in patients
- Identify key concepts as they relate to affect modulation, professional boundaries/behavior, and attributions.
- Discuss how staff at all levels may be affected by behaviors of patients (i.e. secondary traumatization).
- Discuss strategies to better manage your response to patients with trauma.
Intended Audience
Primary Care Staff – physicians, nurses, front desk staff, administration, psychologists and social workers
Accreditation
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation
PHYSICIAN Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PSYCHOLOGIST Albert Einstein College of Medicine is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Albert Einstein College of Medicine maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This activity offers a maximum of 6.25 CE Credits.
NURSING This program has been provided 6.25 continuing education hours from the Montefiore Learning Network, an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on accreditation.
Conflict of Interest
The “Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy” of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine requires that faculty participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship(s) with a commercial interest*. Any presenter whose disclosed relationships prove to create a conflict of interest, with regard to their contribution to the activity, will not be permitted to present.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine also requires that faculty participating in any CME activity disclose to the audience when discussing any unlabeled or investigational use of any commercial product or device, not yet approved in the United States.
Special Needs (ADA)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center fully complies with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If any participant is in need of special accommodations, please submit a written request at least two weeks prior to the activity to jalonzol@montefiore.org.
* The ACCME defines a commercial interest as “any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests.”
To Register
Please see attached image for registration form with further instructions or email Jayxa Alonzo at jalonzol@montefiore.org for more information.
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