Risking Connection IDD Basic Training - for Organizations Supporting People with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

This is a foundational trauma training adapted to professionals that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It provides a philosophy for providing services to trauma survivor clients, helping professionals to understand how extreme behaviors in the present relate to traumatic events of the past. Rooted in the notion that relationships are a critical agent of change for survivors, it holds that attention must be paid to both sides of that relationship in order for it to be healing. Therefore, it stresses addressing compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction in support professionals.