Providing Trauma-Informed Supervision

Online Course

Providing trauma-informed supervision is critical to fostering employees' personal and professional development, enhancing clinical skills, implementing best practices, ensuring accountability, promoting self-care and wellness, and most importantly, improving client outcomes.

Trauma-informed supervision is especially relevant in settings where staff serve clients who are likely to have histories of trauma exposure and where staff often experience secondary trauma exposure through their clinical work.

Trauma-informed supervision helps supervisors create an atmosphere of safety, trust, choice, and collaboration in the workplace, which both benefits staff and serves as a model for how staff treat clients. Whether you’re experienced, new, or not yet a supervisor, you are invited to explore trauma-informed supervision – what it is, why it matters, how to use its frameworks and skills to enhance supervisory practice, and how to employ specific strategies to help staff thrive in their work.

Meet the Instructors

Ken Kraybill, MSW, has worked at the intersection of healthcare, behavioral health, homelessness, and housing for more than 35 years. He is a Senior Trainer at C4 Innovations and is dedicated to improving the quality of care provided to marginalized and vulnerable people. Ken develops curricula and facilitates in-person and online trainings nationally on best practices including Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed practice, trauma-informed supervision, outreach and engagement, recovery support, Critical Time Intervention, and resiliency and renewal for care providers. Ken has a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Ann Marie Roepke, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, trainer, and consultant. She has provided training, consulting, and coaching services to diverse audiences on resilience, self-care, and burnout prevention; workplace communication; resilient responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; and evidence-based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. As a psychotherapist in private practice, she focuses on helping people not only survive, but thrive, in challenging circumstances. She provides continuing education trainings, workshops, and presentation for professionals in “helping professions.” Ann Marie is an active member of the American Psychological Association, Society of Consulting Psychology, and Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She earned her doctorate in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center.

Learn More & Register

“This course made me reflect more on how I interact with staff and how I can be more in accord with the trauma-informed approach, recognizing other's trauma, leaving space for others, recognizing not everyone on staff will be as vocal if they have specific needs or will share their own trauma, and treating everyone as if they have trauma.” -Participant in "Trauma-Informed Supervision" course

Training Certificates

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
Completing all required learning activities
Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
Completing the course evaluation form and certificate request form

7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB and NAADAC. 7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through NBCC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants roughly two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.

Group Registration

If you are registering five or more people from one organization, please email us for a special discount.

Scholarships

Full and partial scholarships available—email us for more info.

Accommodations

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Marsha Kubyshko.

Grievances

If you would like to report a complaint, please email Rachel Ehly.

*In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate from one of the following boards, you must pass each of the five weekly quizzes with an 80% or higher (you will have unlimited retests) along with the final evaluation. The required post-test questions will be at the end of each week's section and the required evaluation will be provided at the completion of the course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can request a certificate using the certificate request form posted with the evaluation and on your learning page. C4 Innovations will then review your course completion and email you a certificate within 2-3 weeks in PDF format. If you are social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the certificate request form for us to be able to include it in your certificate.

C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2020 to 10/17/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 continuing education credits.

C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6576. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

This course has been approved by C4 Innovations as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

Who Should Take This Course

Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-centered organizations.

Learning Objectives

Participants in the course will be able to:

Describe what trauma-informed supervision is and why it matters
Explain how providing care for people living with traumatic stress can impact the health and well-being of supervisees
Describe 3 trauma-informed supervisory principles
Provide 3 ways for supervisors to help supervisees reduce the impact of secondary trauma
Demonstrate how to use the EPE approach to provide constructive feedback in supervision

Course Facts

Dates/Time: TBD (email us if you are interested in this course/topic)

Practice level: Beginner, intermediate & advanced

Cost: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)

CE credit:

ASWB: 7.5 hours
NAADAC: 7.5 hours
NBCC: 7.5 hours