PEER SUPPORT CERTIFICATION TRAINING

Trauma-Responsive Care & Systemic Impact Awareness

Next Session: Saturday, January 24 - Sunday, January 25

From: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (Online via Zoom)

Learn trauma-responsive, body-first approaches to Mental Health First Aid that strengthen safety, care, and community support.

Facilitated by:
Nicole Brown Faulknor, RP, Clinical Supervisor, Trauma Consultant, TCTSY-F

Building Communities: Trauma-Responsive Care & Systemic Impact Awareness; Mental Health First Aid for those working with Racialized Youth

2 Day Training

This training is a trauma-responsive, body-first approach to Mental Health First Aid, designed for organizations working with Indigenous, African, Caribbean, and Black-identifying youth in crisis. Rather than relying solely on cognitive frameworks, we emphasize embodied learning—understanding trauma by exploring how it lives and shows up in the body.

Our training bridges theory and practice by integrating crisis intervention, preventative care, and systemic impact awareness. We custom-build each training to fit the unique needs of your organization or community, in consultation with your leadership or frontline team.

Training Focus Areas

1. Deconstructing Power Dynamics: Reimagining the roles of leaders and frontline workers by exploring how power is held and shifted during crisis situations—and how safety can be co-created.

2. Addressing Historical and Systemic Trauma: Understanding how stigmatization and systemic violence are reenacted in service environments and learning how to disrupt those patterns.

3. Integrated, Responsive Service Delivery: Practicing de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed advocacy, and effective communication across in-person, community, and digital settings.

4. Applied Intervention Skills: Equipping staff with real-world decision-making tools to assess risk, apply trauma-informed verbal strategies, and prevent harmful physical interventions.

Training Outcomes

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Confidently support youth in moments of distress using trauma-informed and culturally safe approaches

• Recognize and reduce unintentional harm in organizational care settings

• Respond with clarity and compassion during high-risk or crisis situations

• Understand and mitigate the impact of burnout, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma as a helper or care provider

Integrated Core Skills (Within Crisis Prevention Framework)

Make effective, values-based decisions under pressure

• Reduce harmful or reactionary interventions

• Understand the roots of behavior through a trauma lens

• Recognize and respond to risk in ways that preserve dignity and safety

• Balance community care with self-awareness and self-care