Equity in Action: Trauma-Informed Supervision Fall 2024

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.

Learning Objectives:

• • Learn techniques for holding space for compounding and intersectional oppression in and outside 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 

Training Facts:

• Dates: Wednesdays, October 23 - November 20, 2024
• Time: 2:00 - 3:30 pm ET
• Location: Online Zoom meeting room 
• Subject: Supervision skills development & equity centered trauma-informed care
• Practice level: Beginner, Intermediate 
• CE credit: 
  • ASWB: 7.5 hours
  • NAADAC: 7.5 hours
  • NBCC: 7.5 hours
• Course type: Live interactive webinar 
  • 90 minute weekly live webcasts
  • Participants will participate in weekly live webinars with the instructors. They will also have access to weekly readings, videos, and other actives on the learning page. They will be quizzed on the knowledge they learn from the live webcasts and learning activities every week to ensure understanding. 
• Covered topics: Trauma-Informed Supervision, racial trauma and supervision, power-imbalances in supervision,  cultural humility, racial equity in supervision
• Fees: $400 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
• Date created: 2022

Meet the Faculty: 

Ashley Stewart, Ph.D., MSW, LSW,  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.

Ann Marie Roepke, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, trainer, and consultant based in Seattle, WA. Her areas of expertise include trauma-informed care, resilience, provider well-being, and  motivational interviewing. As a therapist, Dr. Roepke assists people with challenges including trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, and alcohol/substance concerns. As a researcher, she focuses on developing and testing new methods to foster resilience and posttraumatic growth in the face of adversity. As owner of Evoke Training and Consulting, Dr. Roepke provides training, consulting, and coaching to support professionals in doing their best work to serve others – while tending their own well-being. Dr. Roepke earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center and completed her postdoctoral training at the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System. She is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Society of Consulting Psychology; and the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. More information about her work is available at www.evoketrainingandconsulting.com. 

Who Should Take This Course:

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

System Technology Requirements: 

Please ensure your viewing device complies with the following recommendations:

• Must be on a device that allows you to view MP4 files
• Ensure you have a strong enough internet speed to stream
• Ensure you don't have firewalls blocking the video (some firewalls block some HTTP addresses)

We will be using Zoom for the viewing of our live sessions. In order to have the best experience for Zoom, please download the application here: https://zoom.us. 

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this course once purchased. Therefore, no refund will be given. For special circumstances before the live sessions begin, C4 may cancel your registration and move your credit to another module of equal value or refund the course to the original source of payment. 

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 the certificate request form

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

Accommodations: 

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Project Coordinator, Isabel-Kai Fisher at training@c4innovates.com.

Grievances: 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Associate Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com. 

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 posttest 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: 10/17/2023-10/17/2026. 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.