World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2023 Webinar: Trauma-Informed Practices to Address Abuse and Build Resilience
2023-06-15 14:30 (America/New_York)
Preventing and addressing elder abuse and building resilience in older adults requires a nuanced and trauma-informed approach. Trauma is a widespread issue that affects individuals in different ways. Older adults are exposed to multiple types of traumas over the lifetime as well as older adult-specific traumas, including the loss of spouse/ partner, social isolation, chronic illness, change in living environment, and elder abuse. This panel webinar will discuss the cumulative and complex trauma histories of diverse older adults, how trauma relates to elder abuse, and strategies to provide culturally responsive and trauma-informed support. Zoom closed captioning will be available during the webinar.

Presenter: National Center on Elder Abuse

To Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__lMBjebOQIOblyTyDw4vXg#/registration

New Year, New You….Vision Board Empowerment Workshop
2024-01-06 14:30 - 16:30
The Vision Board Empowerment Workshop will build upon the strengths and resilience already present within the individual. The workshop supports a space for participants to explore their goals and aspirations. This workshop will engage individuals in the discussion of values, visions, and goals centered around decision-making, meaning, and the impact of pouring into self. Workshop activity will have a mindfulness moment, a self-assessment, journaling session, and a vision-building exercise.
Registration Required!

Current Trends of Traumatic Stress for Transgender/Gender Expansive Adolescents
2024-02-28 12:00
This one-hour, virtual professional development training has a primary goal of reviewing current trends of traumatic stress for Transgender/Gender Expansive Adolescents due to repeated legislative assaults on their person-hood; and how systems of oppression adversely impact both the adolescent and their family.

Registration Required!

Reprograming Your DNA to Heal Trauma, Illness and Relationships
2024-03-27 12:00
Once believed fixed and unchangeable, the new science shows us that your DNA is pliable and responds to thoughts, emotions, and the environment.
Understanding this relationship opens an entirely new access point for healing physical, mental, and emotional ills.

Registration Required!

Frontline Workers & How to Apply Resilient Techniques for Yourself and in the Workplace
2024-04-03 13:00
Meet the Presenter: Dr.Somasundaran, MD
Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.

Registration Required!

Equity Action Summit Moving Delaware Forward: From Equity Awareness To Action
2024-04-18 09:00 - 2024-04-19 16:00
Join in the ongoing movement to advance equity for all as shared stewards! The goal is to work and learn together to ensure that all people and places in Delaware are thriving—no exceptions.
Registration Required!

The 6th Annual Compassionate Champion Awards
2024-05-07 18:00
The Compassionate Champion Award highlights individuals or teams in government, non-profit and private organizations, first-responder professions, educational institutions, healthcare professionals, and other agencies that have taken steps toward providing services in a manner consistent with trauma-informed care.
Registration Required!

Trauma Awareness Month: Unlocking Leadership Potential Through Expressive Writing
2024-05-08 12:00 - 13:00
Trauma Awareness Month, a time to celebrate the exceptional work done to date, share best practices and resources for trauma-informed care, and learn how trauma-informed practices can enhance your organization’s services.
Join Sage Horizons in the “Unlock Leadership Potential with Expressive Writing” webinar on May 8, 2024, from 12-1 PM ET and discover how journaling and poetry can enhance your leadership practices while positively impacting both your own mental health and that of the teams you lead.

Registration Required!

988 in Delaware: Expanding the Behavioral Health Crisis Service Continuum
2024-05-15 12:00
“9-8-8 was launched nationwide in July 2022 as the new 3-digit hotline for mental health and suicide crisis. In this workshop, the speakers will overview the history, significance, and current progress in implementing 988 in Delaware. They will also discuss how Delaware is creating a robust behavioral health crisis care continuum of tomorrow.”
Registration Required!

Delaware Department of Education and the SEL Collaborative: Summer Book Study (2 Sessions Available)
2024-05-16 11:30 - 16:00
Book study sessions are online at 11:30 AM (1st Session) and 4:00 PM (2nd Session).
Participants must attend ONE of the time slots.
How May I Serve You? Revelations in Education
by Lori L. Desautels Ph.D. (Author)
Registration Required!

From Their Voices: What Higher Education Students Value in a Trauma-Informed Classroom
2024-05-22 12:00
Engage participants in thoughtful conversation about why trauma-informed classrooms are necessary in higher education, examine what elements of trauma-informed classrooms are important to students, and consider ways to easily integrate trauma-informed principles into the classroom.
Registration Required!

Brain Architecture Game (May 23 and May 29)
2024-05-23 18:00 - 19:30
This interactive training is designed to provide a baseline understanding of brain development and how it is impacted both by resilience and by trauma.
You may join us on ONE of the following dates: May 23rd or May 29th

Registration Required!

Presented by:
Nancy McGee & Cynthia Jones
Community Healing Co-Chairs
Trauma Matters Delaware

Building Resilience: Navigating the Impact of Vicarious Trauma on Mental Health and Well-Being
2024-06-26 13:00
Vicarious trauma has long been a silent struggle for those working in helping professions. The workshop will look at the impact of vicarious trauma on mental health and how to safeguard your well-being.
Registration Required!

A Conversation About Trauma-informed, Resilience-oriented, Equity-focused Systems (TIROES) and Approaches for IDD Populations
2024-08-29 12:00 - 13:00
If you support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), you can meet their needs better with a trauma-informed, resilience-oriented and equity-focused (TIROE) approach. But what does that look like and how do you get started?
Find out during a discussion about TIROE systems (TIROES) and approaches brought to you by the National Council’s IDD Interest Group. Together, we will explore the prevalence and impact of trauma, key principles of TIROES, what being trauma-informed looks like in daily practice and the connection to self-care and compassion resilience.
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Webinar: Exploring Trauma in Military Systems
2024-09-17 13:00
This workshop will seek to explore how trauma has intersected with various military systems including policies, active duty accession standards, and the veteran experience of navigating the VA.
Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.
Register Here!

Finding Your Resilience: A Quality To Develop For Today And Tomorrow
2024-10-02 13:00
We all have resilience, and we must know how to acquire our innate skills to be able to help ourselves when we have to overcome a set-back in our lives. Resilience does not mean that we do not experience anger, loneliness, grief and pain—the key is how do we deal with these adversities in our life? This workshop will discuss the importance of creating ‘teachable moments’ when we are undergoing a feeling of hopelessness in our lives. We can learn to instill hope and learn from the challenges that are presented to us.
Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.
Register Here!

Mental Health and the Farming Community
2024-10-09 12:00
This webinar seeks to build awareness to reduce stigma and provide access to information and resources that promote farmer and rancher mental health wellness. If you have ever wondered how does mental health affect farmers and where can farmers get help? This is the webinar for you.
Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.
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Impact of Human Trafficking Within Our Delaware Communities
2024-11-19 12:00
This workshop includes the following learning objectives:

What is Human Trafficking/Human Smuggling
Ways Traffickers Choose Their Potential Victims
Trauma Associated With Trafficking

Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.
Register Here!

The Impact of Grief and Trauma on the Mind, Body and Spirit
2024-12-12 12:00
This webinar will focus on understanding grief and trauma’s effects holistically and the importance of addressing each for healing.
Meet the Presenter:
Rev. Dr. Carol E. Boggerty
S.T.D., LCSW, BCC, APBCC, LCPC
Director of Chaplaincy Services Department
Bayhealth Medical Center
Register Here!
Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Mental Health
2025-02-12 12:00
The workshop will highlight IPV, how to assess it, and ways to treat it as a mental health professional.
Meet the Presenter:
Krystle Tinsley
LICSW, LCSW-C
Intentional Living, LLC
Register Here!
Please contact Erin Mitchell at erin@traumamatttersdelaware.org if you need accommodations.

2025 Trauma Awareness Month
2025-05-01 - 2025-05-31
🌼 Trauma Matters Delaware Presents: 2025 Trauma Awareness Month 🌼
📅 May 2025
💻 100% Virtual
Join us as we LIFT Higher: Embrace Unity through powerful conversations, workshops, and expert panels focused on trauma-informed care.
🎤 Special kick-off by Lt. Governor Kyle Evans Gay
🔗 Visit our website to register and learn more!

Strong Brains...Resilient Communities Webinar Series (First Session)
2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:30
Join these sessions to examine the power of community healing and increase your repertoire of recovery and restoration strategies.
Session 1 is on May 1st with the theme, Innovations that Restore the Brain and Body.
Session 2 will follow a week later on May 8th and is entitled Transformed: The Journey from Pain to Power.
Register Here!

Meet the Presenter:
Teri Lawler, EdD, LPCMH
Delaware Department of Education
teri.lawler@doe.k12.de.us

Trauma Informed Board Rooms
2025-05-07 12:00 - 13:00
Unlock the power of understanding in leadership!
Join our virtual workshop, Trauma-Informed Boardrooms, and learn how to foster empathy, trust, and resilience at the highest levels.
Register Here!

Strong Brains…Resilient Communities Webinar Series (Second Session)
2025-05-08 18:30 - 19:30

Virtual One-Hour Panel: Workplace Wellness
2025-05-09 14:00
Mark Trauma Awareness Month with Trauma Matters Delaware’s one-hour virtual panel on workplace wellness, Thursday, May 9 at 2pm ET.
We’ll explore how trauma, stress, stigma, and hustle culture shape entrepreneurial life — for both themselves and their teams. This will be a frank and open discussion of cultivating resilience, building connections, and encouraging psychological safety in business that leads to sustainable success.
Register Here!

Cultivating Resilience: Efforts Within and Outside of the Academy
2025-05-14 13:00 - 14:30
This event will showcase efforts to cultivate resilience both within and outside of the academic community.
Efforts that will be shared include trauma-informed trainings for volunteers in the Alabama prison systems, an integrated comprehensive resilience training initiative into a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program, ways to apply a trauma-informed lens to a higher education classroom, a Well-Being and Resilience interprofessional collaborative, and trauma-informed community development.
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Getting Back in my Body & My Community: Healing with Trauma & the Dissociative Experiences in LGBTQ+ Community
2025-05-21 12:00
This presentation explores the unique challenges LGBTQ+ individuals face in reclaiming their bodies and communities after experiencing trauma and dissociative experiences as a way to survive the unsurvivable.
Presented by:
Karla L. Fleshman, LCSW, MDiv, TCYM II
Register Here!

When Clients Don't Talk in Session: Now What?
2025-05-28 12:00
If you’re a counselor, case manager, teacher, coach, mentor, or anyone dedicated to supporting adults, children, or families, this training is designed for you. You’ll discover the key strategies to effectively engage, communicate, and foster responses when they face challenges in connecting or responding to your guidance.
Register in advance for this meeting!
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Cultivating Healing Classrooms: A Trauma‑Informed Schools Panel
2025-05-30 10:00
Join Trauma Matters Delaware 10am May 30th for a dynamic Trauma Awareness Month conversation on building school environments where every student can learn, heal, and thrive.
This will be a panel discussion with panelists: Michele Savage, TMD Board Member and Educational Leadership Specialist at the Delaware Academy of School Leadership, Dr. Christina James 6th Grade Special Education Teacher atShue-Medill Middle School, and Dr. Dionne Fears, Assistant Principal at Carrcroft Elementary School, and moderated by John Himics, TMD Board Member and President at First Ascent Design.
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Working With Juveniles Who Have Engaged in Problem Sexual Behaviors
2025-06-25 12:00 - 13:00
Part 1
This one-hour training offers an introductory overview for professionals working with juveniles who have engaged in sexually harmful behavior. Participants will learn about contributing developmental factors, key differences from adult offenders, and core principles of trauma-informed care and evidence-based interventions. The session emphasizes rehabilitation, family involvement, and reducing stigma while promoting safe, supportive, and ethical practices.
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