2023 | Fall Issue

Winding Down 2023 with a Focus on Feedback, an Essential Element of Trauma Informed Care

This blog by Mandy Davis, LCSW, PhD, Director of Trauma Informed Oregon, along with TIO staff, examines strategies for providing feedback that is trauma-informed, beginning at the intrapersonal, or self-examination, level.

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A Personal Message to the TIO Community

Dalia Avello-Vega, Lecturer at Portland State University's College of Instruction, provides an update on her transition from Trauma Informed Oregon to a new project in Scotland!

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Unsolicited Feedback: A Birthing Experience

Danielle Grondin, Instructional Designer for Trauma Informed Care, Trauma Informed Oregon, describes her successful strategy to avoid medical re-traumatization during her experience giving birth in a hospital environment.

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Non-Verbal Feedback: Listening to Silent Voices and Decoding Unspoken Narratives

This blog by Steffannie Roache, MS LPC, Professor of Practice, and Mandy Davis, LCSW, PhD, Director of Trauma Informed Oregon, discusses guidelines for giving and receiving non-verbal feedback in the workplace, including through polls and surveys.

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Re-Imagining Feedback Processes in a Workplace Environment

Christy da Rosa, LCSW, Research Assistant, Trauma Informed Oregon, offers practical techniques for building relationships and trust among staff to obtain honest feedback in the workplace.

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Using Implementation Tools as Feedback Processes

Aliza Tuttle, Project Manager for the Human Services Implementation Lab (I-Lab) at Portland State University, compares the example of tracking of gardening progress over time to the development of the Trauma Informed Care Organizational Assessment.

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TIO Welcomes New Team Members

Ingrid Anderson, Ed.D

Ingrid Anderson, Ed.D. is an Associate Professor of Practice supporting Trauma Informed Oregon and coordinating the Infant Toddler Mental Health Graduate Certificate and the Indigenous First Steps Project at Portland State University. She holds a Master’s in Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools from Lesley University. As an early childhood educator and researcher, she studies the emotions of working in early childhood education. For the past 30 years, Ingrid has worked as a classroom educator, director, administrator, and now a university professor thinking about how we find our purpose in our work.

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Leah

I am pursuing a graduate degree in social work at Portland State University. My background is in homeless services and school social work, and my interests include youth-led advocacy, as well as community-driven safety, healing, and mutual aid. I am always looking for book recommendations! Currently I am reading "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele. (Pronouns: they/them.)

Christian

I'm excited and honored to have the opportunity to learn as I partner with y'all to advance the important work underway at TIO! I grew up and completed my undergrad in Southern California, earning a degree in Psychology, before moving to Southern Oregon to begin work in community-based mental health. Since moving here, I've had the pleasure of partnering with folks throughout the state while working in both outpatient and residential treatment settings before joining the RRI as a student employee. Engagement with a variety of exciting research projects inspired a transition from the clinical to the macro MSW track, and I'm thrilled to complete the final year of the program involved in such important work! When I'm not stress-sweating about school, I love exploring the outdoors, spending time with my marvelous Mini-poodle Miles, and staring at my plants.

Coming Up from TIO

• Stay tuned for 2024 event offerings in your inbox next month!

TIO Highlights from 2023

It has been an energetic year at TIO. A few highlights:

• Since we last communicated in this way we have been out and about. I spent an amazing week in Malheur County with the Malheur County Prevention Coalition. We held a community event and then visited with programs to hear what is working and what is needed. Hearing this is so helpful and impactful to my work.
• We’ve completed 3 “Training of Trainers” cohorts for: college instructors, criminal legal system workers, and public health workers.
• The Implementation Tool is live and being used. TIO is working to provide resources to help organizations move forward using the tool. It is a helpful framework for sustaining this work. TIO continues to collaborate with the I-Lab to implement trauma informed care with organizations globally.
• Completed a collaborative four-part series with TIO and Recuperación de Desastres: Información del Trauma, for Spanish-speaking community builders with the Disaster Resilience Learning Collaborative.
• TIO and partners presented at the Latino Health Equity Conference on trauma informed care on June 8th. This presentation was in Spanish and English.
• We launched a TI Supervision series, which met capacity. Thanks to all who registered.
• Christy da Rosa has been busy in the disaster and community wellness world collaborating with:
  • The Hearth's "Care for Community Builders" rejuvenation retreat for Rogue Food Unites and other invited Southern Oregon community builders in July. This retreat centered wellness, folk medicine, and resetting our nervous system.
  • The CDC and UWCW at the 48th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop in Colorado in July.
• In alignment with the theme of this quarter's newsletter, we have launched a new Community Feedback Hub where you can provide your thoughts on how we can critically assess our methods, disrupt processes that are not working, and align with community needs.

Register for December "Nourish the Network" Events

TIO is committed to Nourish the Network by partnering with community members to offer a space for learning, sharing, and building community. Feel free to register for any of our remaining 2023 Nourish the Network gatherings.

• Somatic Moment »
  December 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
• TIC Champions – Behavioral Health – Public »
  December 19 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am

We'll have a new event series coming in 2024! Check back on our Events Calendar, or sign up for TIO's Events email list.

Give Your Thoughts with Our New Community Feedback Hub

Trauma Informed Oregon is thrilled to invite you to share your thoughts on how TIO can improve its work. With our new Community Feedback Hub, you can provide your input via surveys that will help us to critically assess our methods, disrupt processes that are not working, and help TIO align with community needs.

Check out the Community Feedback Hub »

Sign Up for Our Events Notification List

We want you to get notified when we add our new event offerings! We'll send out a notice for our 2024 events next month to folks who are registered for our main newsletter list as well as the new Events list, but in the future we'll send more focused events emails to those registered to the Events list. (Make sure you leave the "Send me TIO's events and trainings emails" box checked when you complete the signup form.)

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Stay Connected!

We love feedback and staying connected, so be in touch if you have a request, need, or want to collaborate.

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