The Resilience Champion
Welcome, Resilience Champions!
Greetings and welcome to the Resilience Champion Certificate program! This self-paced course will guide you as you move from trauma-aware to trauma-informed and trauma-responsive. You and/or your team will work through one section each week (or faster or slower, if you prefer) to help you establish a foundation, create goals, and identify concrete steps you can take to sustain a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach in your specific setting. You’ll also see cross-sector examples of Resilience Champions and specific strategies that have worked for them, providing inspiration for clear steps to help you get started.
Here we go!
Course Guide
Many of the answers to your questions can be found in the course guide. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.
Don’t forget to share your experiences on social media throughout the course using @originstc and #resiliencechampion.
Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey!
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The Resilience Champion
Welcome, Resilience Champions!
Greetings and welcome to the Yolo County Resilience Champion Workshop Series program! This workshop series will guide you as you move from trauma-aware to trauma-informed and trauma-responsive. Your participation in each workshop to help you establish a foundation, create goals, and identify concrete steps you can take to sustain a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach in your specific setting.
Here we go!
Course Guide
Many of the answers to your questions can be found in the course guide. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.
Don’t forget to share your experiences on social media throughout the course using @originstc and #resiliencechampion.
Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey!
Join the Discussion
People want to know you! One of the most common pieces of feedback we get is that people want to get to know and connect with others who are integrating a trauma-informed approach. We invite you to introduce yourself and share as much or as little as you’d like about your journey in this work.
The Resilience Champion
Welcome, Resilience Champions!
Greetings and welcome to the Yolo County Resilience Champion Workshop Series program! This workshop series will guide you as you move from trauma-aware to trauma-informed and trauma-responsive. Your participation in each workshop to help you establish a foundation, create goals, and identify concrete steps you can take to sustain a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach in your specific setting.
Here we go!
Course Guide
Many of the answers to your questions can be found in the course guide. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.
Don’t forget to share your experiences on social media throughout the course using @originstc and #resiliencechampion.
Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey!
Join the Discussion
People want to know you! One of the most common pieces of feedback we get is that people want to get to know and connect with others who are integrating a trauma-informed approach. We invite you to introduce yourself and share as much or as little as you’d like about your journey in this work.
The Resilience Champion Workshop Series
Introduction
Welcome all!
We invite you to share a little about yourself in a discussion post. This is the primary method of communication within the course (besides the weekly live sessions) and we want you to be comfortable with the technology (and each other) before we get started. You can include your name, where you are from, and anything else you want to share. We love to hear about aha moments, pets, passions, and hobbies.
We will see you on Wednesday at 11:00 am PT on Zoom. You will receive the zoom room information and a calendar invite to the registered email. If you don’t receive it by Tuesday, please email info@originstraining.org
The Resilience Champion
Focusing on an Action Plan
In this section, you’ll translate your goals into a concrete action plan and work through the process of brainstorming and executing potential solutions.
Key Takeaways:
- The focus for this final section is on creating an action plan by identifying specific activities to meet the goals you defined in Week 5. Remember the distinction between a goal and an activity.
- Structured brainstorming will help identify activities to help achieve your goals. Key considerations for your brainstorming:
- In addition to brainstorming ideas for new activities, consider what activities you want to you CONTINUE to help achieve the goals you defined (and anything you may want to STOP!)
- Keep an open mind. Don’t dismiss anything (yet!) because of a perceived lack of resources or other challenges
- Thing big (and think small!)
- Be as inclusive as possible in this step in order to get ideas and solutions from other colleagues, community members, and clients
- Brainstorming is a team sport. Look at the table you have set for your team. Is anyone missing? Whose voices are not included? How might you include them?
- As you select specific activities from this larger brainstorming list, focus on ideas that are realistic within your setting. (But keep that bigger list—you may want to come back to those other ideas in the future!)
- You may want to provide additional structure to your team to help you implement your efforts. How frequently will you meet? Will you develop subcommittees within your larger group to focus on specific initiatives?
- Don’t forget–getting started is often half the battle! Don’t let the fear of making mistakes keep you from taking action.
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Defining Your Goals
In this section, you’ll build off the findings of your assessment to define concrete goals for integrating a trauma-informed approach into your setting, using a strengths-based method to identify resources that can support you in your process.
Key Takeaways:
- This section focused on using the information from the assessment to help define concrete goals for your setting.
- Your goals describe specific objectives that you would like to accomplish and help translate your overall vision into concrete next steps to help achieve that vision.
- Your goals are different from the activities to meet those goals. (We will talk more about activities next week!)
- Some of the goals that you create will be short-term and some will require more time to execute.
- Considerations as you define your goals:
- First, be specific. Think about the findings from your assessment—what is your specific area for improvement?
- Second, how are you going to know if you are making progress against your goals? Measurement can be tricky when you are talking about integrating a resilience-building approach–how will you know if you are succeeding?
- Third, remember that this is a team approach. Think about your allies for this work (both within and outside of your setting) and who can help. You cannot do this alone. A strong team is essential to prioritize and problem-solve.
- Fourth, make sure your goals are realistic. Think about your setting, your sphere of influence within that setting, and create goals that you think you can achieve. Early success with smaller goals will more likely lead to buy-in from others than grand plans that sound great but don’t go anywhere. Remember the mantra…keep it simple!
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Assessing your Setting
In this section, you’ll use a systematic approach to assess and examine the different domains of your setting, such as leadership capacity, policies and procedures, and physical environment.
Key Takeaways:
- In the first three sections of the course, the focus was on setting your table for the sustainable application of a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach. In section 4, we shift to focus on assessing your setting using a trauma-informed https://originstraining.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=342&action=edit#saveassessment.
- The intent behind a trauma-informed assessment is to use a systematic systematic approach to evaluate different areas of your setting–both the things that are working well and the areas that could be improved. The information you gather in the assessment will help guide the development of specific goals.
- There are a number of different trauma-informed assessment tools that exist, most of which are based on the Trauma-Informed Program Self-Assessment Scale developed by Drs. Roger Fallot and Maxine Harris. All of these tools encourage you to look at a variety of domains in your setting. Five domains that are common across these tools are:
- Leadership and staff
- Clients and consumers
- Services
- Policies and procedures
- Physical environment
- Redesigning our systems and structures requires us to consider the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ALL of these domains.
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What is a Resilience Champion?
In this section, you’ll explore what it means to be a Resilience Champion and the role of leadership and teamwork in promoting sustainable change. You’ll also define your setting and your team for this course.
Key Takeaways:
- The focus for the first three sections of the course is on building a strong foundation so you can sustain your approach over time. For those of you who are ready to dive into implementation, don’t worry–we promise we will get there!
- We all wear many hats in the various settings of our personal and professional lives. We all have influence in each of those roles, whether at the individual, organizational, systems, or community level.
- At Origins, we define a resilience champion as someone who is using a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach to lead change. Change can happen in a variety of settings—a healthcare clinic, a school, a government agency, your community group, even your own home.
- As said by Brené Brown “Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.” A leader can be CEO or an executive director, but it certainly does not have to be.
- Teamwork is critical for integrating this approach. You can not do this alone.
- Remember the idea of “nothing about us without us.” How will you ensure that the voice of the clients you are serving is incorporated into the services you design?
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Developing Your Culture
In this section, you’ll learn about the role of culture in sustaining a trauma-informed approach and define the values that will help promote a resilience-building culture in your setting.
Key Takeaways:
- One definition of culture is a “set of shared attitudes, values, goals, or practices that characterize an institution or organization.”
- The culture you nurture is going to help sustain your resilience-building efforts. As said by management guru Peter Drucker, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
- Culture works on multiple levels. Some of these levels are explicit, but many of them are implicit
- All organizations, communities, and families have a culture, whether it has been created intentionally or not. Part of being intentional is articulating a set of values for setting. Those values will help guide your implementation.
- As an example, we shared four values we defined for Origins. We chose these values because they are rooted in many of the key concepts behind a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach.
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Exploring Your Why?
In this section, we will invite you to take a step back and explore “why you do what you do” and your overall vision for integrating this approach into your setting.
Key Takeaways:
- Each of us has a ‘why,’ a reason we do what we do. As said by Michael Jr., “When you know your ‘why”, your ‘what’ has more impact because you are walking in or toward your purpose.”
- A vision is “an aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve in the mid or long term.” It describes a clear outcome of what we would like to achieve. It should dare us to dream and to think big. It should evoke emotion and inspire us.
- A mission statement describes what you do and who or what you do it for. A good mission statement supports your vision. The following summarizes Origins’ vision and mission.
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The Resilience Champion
Welcome, Resilience Champions!
Greetings and welcome to the Resilience Champion Certificate program! This self-paced course will guide you as you move from trauma-aware to trauma-informed and trauma-responsive. You and/or your team will work through one section each week (or faster or slower, if you prefer) to help you establish a foundation, create goals, and identify concrete steps you can take to sustain a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach in your specific setting. You’ll also see cross-sector examples of Resilience Champions and specific strategies that have worked for them, providing inspiration for clear steps to help you get started.
Here we go!
Course Guide
Many of the answers to your questions can be found in the course guide. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.
Don’t forget to share your experiences on social media throughout the course using @originstc and #resiliencechampion.
Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your journey!
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The Basics
Introduction & Welcome
Welcome to The Basics! If you have gotten this far, congratulations! You’re logged into the course! The training is only 90 minutes total but we encourage you to take each section in and make any comments in the discussion section as you go. This course is meant to be an overview and answer the question, “What is a trauma-informed approach?”
In this section:
- Comment below with an introduction of yourself if you’d like. We aim to create a community of learners through this training.
- Download the lesson resources.
Throughout the course, we invite you to provide comments and feedback in the surveys provided so that we can make sure that this training is doing its job. We are also naturally curious and love to hear from you all about your experience! We also encourage you to share your learning on social media using #otcbasics and @originstc.
You’re on your way…
Introduction Video
This introduction to The Basics will answer questions about why we should care about being trauma-informed if we want to build resilience. No discussion questions or survey here.
Enjoy the show!
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What is a Resilience Champion?
In this section, you’ll explore what it means to be a Resilience Champion and the role of leadership and teamwork in promoting sustainable change. You’ll also define your setting and your team for this course.
Key Takeaways:
- The focus for the first three sections of the course is on building a strong foundation so you can sustain your approach over time. For those of you who are ready to dive into implementation, don’t worry–we promise we will get there!
- We all wear many hats in the various settings of our personal and professional lives. We all have influence in each of those roles, whether at the individual, organizational, systems, or community level.
- At Origins, we define a resilience champion as someone who is using a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach to lead change. Change can happen in a variety of settings—a healthcare clinic, a school, a government agency, your community group, even your own home.
- As said by Brené Brown “Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.” A leader can be CEO or an executive director, but it certainly does not have to be.
- Teamwork is critical for integrating this approach. You can not do this alone.
- Remember the idea of “nothing about us without us.” How will you ensure that the voice of the clients you are serving is incorporated into the services you design?
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Setting the Foundation
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the series, articulate goals, and establish the foundation for ongoing collaboration. As part of this workshop, we will work with the champion team to reflect on their “why” and consider who is at the table and how to ensure the voices of patients and staff throughout the organization are included throughout the process.
Key Takeaways:
You (and your team-members) will be acting as Resilience Champions within your organization, using a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach to lead change within your sphere of influence.
- Teamwork is critical for integrating this approach. Developing a team whose culture models the principles of a trauma-informed approach will support its integration within the clinic. You can not do this alone.
- Each team member brings unique strengths to your group. Encourage team members to volunteer, ask for help, or delegate as you get to know each other’s superpowers.
- Each of us has a ‘why,’ a reason we do what we do. As said by Michael Jr., “When you know your ‘why”, your ‘what’ becomes more impactful because you’re walking towards or in your purpose.”
- Remember the idea of “nothing about us without us.” How will you ensure that the voice of the patients and staff are incorporated into the process?
- It starts with you! To lead in this work you don’t have to have a fancy title. As said by Brene Brown, “Leadership is just not about the title, the status, or the power. A leader should be bold, brave, and daring, but he must also be open, vulnerable, and sensitive in order to be able to lead wisely.”
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The Resilience Champion
Setting the Foundation
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the series, articulate goals, and establish the foundation for ongoing collaboration. As part of this workshop, we will work with the champion team to reflect on their “why” and consider who is at the table and how to ensure the voices of patients and staff throughout the organization are included throughout the process.
Key Takeaways:
You (and your team-members) will be acting as Resilience Champions within your organization, using a trauma-informed and resilience-building approach to lead change within your sphere of influence.
- Teamwork is critical for integrating this approach. Developing a team whose culture models the principles of a trauma-informed approach will support its integration within the clinic. You can not do this alone.
- Each team member brings unique strengths to your group. Encourage team members to volunteer, ask for help, or delegate as you get to know each other’s superpowers.
- Each of us has a ‘why,’ a reason we do what we do. As said by Michael Jr., “When you know your ‘why”, your ‘what’ becomes more impactful because you’re walking towards or in your purpose.”
- Remember the idea of “nothing about us without us.” How will you ensure that the voice of the patients and staff are incorporated into the process?
- It starts with you! To lead in this work you don’t have to have a fancy title. As said by Brene Brown, “Leadership is just not about the title, the status, or the power. A leader should be bold, brave, and daring, but he must also be open, vulnerable, and sensitive in order to be able to lead wisely.”
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The Resilience Champion Workshop Series
Workshop 1- Setting the Foundation
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the series, articulate goals, and establish the foundation for ongoing collaboration. As part of this workshop, we will work with the champion team to reflect on their “why” and consider who is at the table and how to ensure the voices of patients and staff throughout the organization are included throughout the process.
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Discussion post: Post your answer to these questions on the discussion section:
1) Reflect on goals
- What do you want to achieve in this course?
2) Design your team
- Choose a hat: Think about the different roles you play within the various settings of your professional
and professional life. What are some of those hats (ie. parent, employee, coach, etc)? Which hat are
you going to choose to focus on in the Resilience Champion course? - Identify your team: As you create your team, consider structural inequities that may influence the
make-up of who has a seat at the table and whose table it is. Remember the inequities discussed in the
Social & Historical Trauma section in The Basics and how they can influence the power structure of
your setting. This is about more than just inclusivity; it’s about redesigning our systems and structures.
3) Apply concepts
- How can the information from week 1 be applied personally and professionally?
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The Basics Pre-Course Survey
To get started, please complete the pre-course survey (don’t worry, it’s only one question). There will be a post-course survey at the end of the training (it’s also very short). We appreciate your feedback as we go through this learning together.
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Exploring Your Why?
In this section, we will invite you to take a step back and explore “why you do what you do” and your overall vision for integrating this approach into your setting.
Key Takeaways:
- Each of us has a ‘why,’ a reason we do what we do. As said by Michael Jr., “When you know your ‘why”, your ‘what’ has more impact because you are walking in or toward your purpose.”
- A vision is “an aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve in the mid or long term.” It describes a clear outcome of what we would like to achieve. It should dare us to dream and to think big. It should evoke emotion and inspire us.
- A mission statement describes what you do and who or what you do it for. A good mission statement supports your vision. The following summarizes Origins’ vision and mission.
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Building & Communicating Your Vision
A trauma-informed approach starts with you and your vision. Whatever inspired you to adopt this approach, whether it was learning about the impact of toxic stress on health and behavior or personal experiences, your why will inspire your vision. You may want to start by exploring how you see this approach impacting your organization, whether it is with clients, staff, or both. Do your best to be clear about
what you want to achieve so that you can communicate it to key stakeholders. Let’s take some steps to develop your vision. Remember…think big!
Key Takeaways:
- Remember to come together with intention:
“Within the first five minutes of my opening, I always say something like this – I want you to imagine you’re building a spider web together, that you have strings coming out of your wrists, that connect with the other people here. We can only go as deep as the weakest thread will allow, now none of you are the weakest link… but the weakest thread between the two of you will determine how deep we can go together…”
– Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
● Leadership is not always about titles. A trauma-informed approach requires brave leaders willing to have tough conversations.
● Each of us operates from our own own leadership style. Recognizing the strengths of each person on a team can help the team solve challenges in a collaborative and constructive way. Continue to reflect on your leadership style and how it impacts how you show up and your ability to connect.
● A vision is “an aspirational description of what an organization would like to achieve in the mid or long term.” It describes a clear outcome of what we would like to achieve. It should dare us to dream and to think big. It should evoke emotion and inspire us.
● Communicating your vision is key to obtaining buy-in across the organization. As you develop your message to various stakeholders, remember to target your message to address the specific needs of that audience.
Take-home activities:
Work through the following questions with your team.(You may want to use the separate worksheets as a tool to support the activities.)
- Revisit agreements: Continue to revisit the set of agreements that you created to help support intentional culture-building within your team.
- Reflect on your leadership style: Continue to reflect on leadership styles and explore how they might impact connection (safety) within your team and the overall culture of your
organization. Identify how you might reach out to others with different styles to nurture strength in diversity. (See separate worksheet for additional support) . - Develop your vision: A trauma-informed approach starts with you and your vision is the guide. Identify why and how you see this approach impacting your organization in a
specific way, whether it is with patients, staff, or both. Create a vision for this work within
your team and organization.
4. Communicate your vision: Consider the needs of various key stakeholders as you develop
and target your message to them. This is an important part of building buy-in and support.
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