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Trauma-Informed Supervision: Centering Equity

Online Course: Fall 2023

Trauma-informed supervision is critical in all settings, and it is important to give specific attention to the impact of systemic and structural oppression in supervisory relationships. There is a need for an equity-centered focus in trauma-informed supervision, and there are unique ways that people who experience forms of identity-based oppression can experience trauma.

Participants in this course will engage in skill building and self-reflection to examine ways that trauma, systems, and culture impact our supervision with or without our awareness. This course will help current and future supervisors gain skills to create supervisory relationships built on a foundation of emotional safety, trust, authenticity, autonomy, and collaboration.

A foundation of equity-centered trauma-informed supervision benefits supervisees by serving as a model for how to treat co-workers and clients. Whether you’re experienced, new, or not yet a supervisor, you are invited to explore equity-centered trauma-informed supervision.

 

Meet the Instructor

Ashley Stewart

Ashley Stewart, PhD, MSW, LSW, received her PhD from The Ohio State University, College of Social Work, and her master’s at Columbia University. Dr. Stewart is a Director at C4 Innovations. In this role, she provides technical assistance, training, and industrial/organizational support to national organizations, boards of directors, and behavioral health organizations on implementing anti-racist and equitable practices. She utilizes an equity-centered approach to ensure that diversity and inclusion efforts move forward and reduce harm in sustainable ways. Her work includes assessing the intersections of identity, structural oppression, wellness, and policy. In addition to the advanced study of the consequence and causes of identity-based oppression, Dr. Stewart supports implementing anti-oppressive practices in organizational, structural, programmatic, and interpersonal interventions.

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Training Certificates

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

  1. Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
  2. Completing all required learning activities
  3. Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
  4. 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. Scholarship requests are due Thursday, October 26, 2023.

Accommodations

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

Grievances

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact 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 services agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-oriented organizations

Learning Objectives

Participants in this course will:

  • Learn techniques for holding space for compounding and intersectional oppression inside and out of the workplace
  • Build skills to help supervisees reduce the impact of secondary trauma
  • Learn how to provide constructive feedback in supervision through a racial equity and trauma-informed lens
  • Understand race-based traumatic stress, acculturative stress, insidious trauma, and historical trauma in the context of supervision
  • Identify what equity-centered trauma-informed supervision looks like in practice and why it is critical to organizational and individual wellness

Course Facts

Dates: Thursdays, November 9-December 14, 2023 (skipping November 23)

Time: 2-3:30 pm ET

Practice level: Beginner and intermediate

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

CE credit:

  • ASWB: 7.5 hours
  • NAADAC: 7.5 hours
  • NBCC: 7.5 hours
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“Ashley was fantastic. Clearly an expert in her field and made challenging material accessible and easy to understand." --Participant in a training led by Ashley Stewart

“I directly supervise 14 people of different ages, backgrounds, races, and experiences of trauma. This course will help me to show up more intentionally during my supervision with all my team members.” --Trauma-Informed Supervision: Centering Equity Online Course Participant

“Hard subjects were broached and discussed in a matter-of-fact manner that made it easier to hear and do some real self-reflection.” --Trauma-Informed Supervision: Centering Equity Online Course Participant

“The presenters were fantastic in their approach and willingness to hear all participants, fully answer questions, and give valuable, tailored feedback.” --Trauma-Informed Supervision: Centering Equity Online Course Participant

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