Action Team 3
Practice
about us
Action Team 3 links research with policy and best practices to implement trauma-informed care, reducing the impact of previous trauma and breaking the cycle that perpetuates violence across the lifespan. They focus on ways to incorporate multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary trauma-informed practices into specific recommendations including those that identify and address barriers to implementation of trauma-informed care in in all communities, sectors and service systems. These include schools, colleges, primary health care, hospitals, child welfare, human services, mental health services, civil and family courts as well as the criminal justice system (e.g. law enforcement, prosecutors, courts and adult corrections and juvenile facilities).
Action Team 3 integrates their work with the National Plan to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan. The Team’s work will include developing policy statements, identifying those who can provide professional, advanced trainings on evidence-based best practices for trauma informed care and providing opportunities for the publication of research on promising new evidence-based approaches to trauma-informed care. Past projects include guest editing a special issue for the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma on Trauma-Informed Care; producing research and writing papers that explore grassroots methods for carrying the value and benefits of trauma-informed care to various disciplines and services sectors in the community; and certifying providers trained in trauma-informed care and creating an online database of such providers that can be made available to the general public, other providers, and practitioners.
current projects
Review and support a web-page on evidence based practices, as part of the NPEIV Violence Education through Social Media grant
Plan content and format for two webinars for the general public on the common risk factors for different forms of interpersonal violence and practice recommendations for recognizing and addressing violent extremism
Developed standards for doing trauma-informed prevention and intervention work related to interpersonal violence, including review of the NPEIV Violence Prevention Grant and meeting with proponents of two electronic platforms to identify possible database format for consumers to access trauma-informed care resources
Developed and presented trauma-informed care informational sessions, including two at IVAT Summits on “Collective Trauma, Trauma Informed Care & the COVID-19 Pandemic” and one on working in schools with students who have experienced trauma
FUTURE PROJECTS
Continue to explore educational and public awareness opportunities to promote trauma-informed care.
Work to identify individuals who are certified in trauma-informed care so that they can be resources to others as well as facilitators of trainings in local communities and with national audiences.
Work together to carry the Action Team 3 voice and mission into communities by developing policy statements and recommendations for best practice evidence-based methods that will implement trauma-informed care across multiple disciplines and service sectors.
SUSAN M. OMILIAN: co-chair
Susan M. Omilian, JD is an Attorney, Author, and Motivational Speaker, and Originator and Facilitator of My Avenging Angel Workshops™.
Connie Davis: Co-Chair
Connie Davis is the Founder and CEO of Kairos Digital Commerce Consulting.