There is one question that all helping professionals should be able to answer.... What is your scope of practice? Your scope of practice are your professionabl boundaries that highlight the skills, services & responses that are within your competency as an individual professional. One of the most important components of trauma-informed care is setting professional boundaries. Professional boundaries are an expression of your capacity. Your capacity being your ability to receive, contain...

Trauma-informed care has been around for awhile... There is no real universal definition of the approach so here is how I explain it: We used to hold a narrow understanding of trauma thinking it was only the minority of the population that experienced trauma. We used to think trauma-informed care was only reserved for mental health and healthcare providers providing specific trauma interventions. What we now know is that virtually everyone has experienced trauma. We know for a fact that...

The truth is: your spaces, programs, and services are not safe just because you say they are... You may not be able to guarantee that your spaces, programs, or services are safe for others-but what you can do is design, facilitate and show up in a way that uses mutually beneficial skills and tools to create an environment where safety can be felt by everyone-including you. We know safety is a core human need. There are various types of safety: physical, emotional, relational, psychological,...