Mental health support services

Trauma results from when an event, or series of events, are experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening.  This includes the impacts of poverty, racism, discrimination, domestic abuse, adolescent crime/violence and many more. 

Being trauma informed means that services have awareness of how trauma can negatively impact on individuals and communities, and their ability to feel safe or develop trusting relationships.  This awareness is then used to improve the accessibility and quality of services including working in collaboration and partnership with people and empowering them to make choices about their health and wellbeing.

Teesside University in association with North East London Training Hub is offering free trauma informed care workshops for people working in Newham.  These are online, three hour sessions and will cover:

• Sources of trauma
• Impact of trauma, secondary and vicarious trauma
• Maintaining your own psychological wellbeing
• How to gain confidence in talking about trauma
• Handling disclosures.

A certificate of attendance will be sent following the session.

Please register for the most suitable date using the links below (you only need to attend one workshop). The link to join the workshop will be sent once you have been registered. If you have any queries, please contact: SHLS-Contracts@tees.ac.uk  

Distance online learning course for anyone providing care, health or support services in Newham

The course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about trauma and trauma informed care but cannot commit to a taught course (6 full days of scheduled teaching).  The modules include learning about trauma, childhood trauma, and the impact on an individual’s life as well as providing you with tools to help support a trauma informed approach to your work. It will be supported by live monthly Q&A sessions with one of the module team using Microsoft Teams. A certificate of completion will be emailed upon achieving 80% in an online quiz at the end of the module.

The course will take approximately 12 weeks to complete and needs to be applied from 24 July 2023 until 28th June 2024.

Trauma Sensitive Approaches to Psychological Wellbeing: 
From 24 July 2023
Distance Learning

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Trauma Informed Taught Course

This free course is designed for anyone who is interested in learning more about trauma and trauma informed care and would prefer a more traditional ‘taught’ approach to learning. The course has six full days (0930 – 1630) of scheduled online teaching over 12 weeks. You will be expected to attend all sessions. The content includes learning about trauma, childhood trauma, and the impact on an individual’s life. The impact of culture, health inequalities, and as well as providing you with tools to help support a trauma informed approach to your work.

The course has two routes:

• UCPPD (accredited) – upon successful completion of this route students will be awarded University Certificate in Professional Postgraduate Development and 20 level (M) credits. To pass this course students must achieve a minimum of 50% in the final assessment which is a 3000-word reflective essay. Students applying for this route should have studied at a minimum of degree level or equivalent (level 6)
• CPD route (non-accredited) – students will be awarded with a certificate of completion upon achieving 80% in an online quiz at the end of the module. There are no specified entry requirements for this route.

Start dates:  25 September 2023 and 22 April 2024 

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