Bridge Over Turbulent Waters

:: An introduction to coaching for LIFE! agency solutions

Making the transformation to a Trauma Informed Care, TIC, environment requires change of process, people and systems throughout the agency. 

The trauma informed agency initiates policies, procedures and practices that identify, incorporate and remain sensitive to an individual and or family’s trauma history, symptoms, strengths and coping with overwhelming emotion. The goal of our organizational consult is to help agencies develop and provide Emotional Regulatory Healing as your TIC model. We achieve this without retraumatizing clients, while helping you to provide an environment of safety, healing and empowerment that ultimately assists the client and your staff in making sense of their experience and move toward healing.

In the past two decades both the social service and mental health systems have suffered significant loss in numbers of psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment programs. The transformation has led the way to community and home based programs as well as Adoptive Families and Treatment Foster Care needing to pick up the treatment and provision of care for some seriously disturbed and traumatized children. At the same time research into and knowledge of the etiology of trauma in mental, emotional and behavioral disorders is exploding in a new field of neuroscience.  

cfL provides an continuum of trauma informed services to agencies who are experiencing the manifestation of these massive changes.  We recognize that your business is a living system, just as the living family system that we seek to treat effectively. We consider systems levels of functioning, health and regulation both on a macro as well as a micro level. Macro systems, such as your agency, seeking to provide treatment and support to micro systems, the family, will find that in order to move toward healing for the family system the larger system itself will need to move toward health. 

Becoming a trauma informed system will require macrosystem transformation at each and every level of the agency. Just as past experiences play out in the present day to day functioning of our struggling clients, past experiences will be played out in the present day to day functioning of our board members, executive staff, directors and front line service providers. This parallel process will be explored, understood and transformed through training in and utilization of Emotional Regulatory Healing as your trauma informed paradigm for care.

cfL provides full follow up support, clinical supervision and integration for a full year subsequent to an intensive training.

Trauma Informed Care: A Full Integration Program

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