Course Objective
- Discuss how COVID 19 has exacerbated disparities within health departments.
- Describe how to utilize trauma informed principles to shift internal policies and procedures to support resiliency amongst staff.
- Identify the stages of trauma resilience and implementation into policies.
- Explain the importance of viewing staff as whole people within an equity and resilience framework.
Date: August 3rd, 2021
Presenter:
Mateo Belen, MSW
Trainer and Principle Consultant
A Mateo Consulting
In this month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, Mateo Belen, MSW, discusses how organizations can shift internal policies and procedures to support resilience amongst staff in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. He begins by introducing us to basic trauma informed principles and explains the need to consider impacts based on race and gender. Belen highlights the need to acknowledge racism as a public health crisis and the importance of recognizing its effects amongst our employees in addition to the communities we serve. He then spends time talking about how resilience can be seen as a coping mechanism and how it can be fostered by organizations. He shares effective strategies that can be incorporated into work structures in order to support resilience and provide adequate backing to employees in times of crisis.
Participants will be able to:
- Discuss how COVID 19 has exacerbated disparities within health departments.
- Describe how to utilize trauma informed principles to shift internal policies and procedures to support resiliency amongst staff.
- Identify the stages of trauma resilience and implementation into policies.
- Explain the importance of viewing staff as whole people within an equity and resilience framework.
