Training: How Being Trauma Informed Improves Criminal Justice Responses

SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation, operated by Policy Research Associates, Inc. (PRA), is known nationally for its work in regard to people with behavioral health needs involved in the criminal justice system.

Although prevalence estimates vary, there is consensus that high percentages of justice-involved women and men have experienced serious trauma throughout their lifetime. The reverberating effects of trauma experiences can challenge a person’s capacity for recovery and pose significant barriers to accessing services, often resulting in an increased risk of coming into contact with the criminal justice system.

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Training Objectives

• Increase understanding of trauma
• Create an awareness of the impact of trauma on behavior
• Develop trauma-informed responses

Audience: This highly interactive training is specifically tailored to community-based criminal justice professionals and those who work with justice-involved individuals including:

• Law Enforcement, EMS, and Fire
• Community Corrections
• Court personnel
• Medical and human service providers
• Peer Support Specialists

Continuing Education credits:
• VGCC will provide CEs for LEO/Fire/EMS (no charge)
• Wake AHEC will offer CEs for nurses, social workers, and counselors. ($20 fee- AHEC CE
registration link will be sent in welcome packet after you register for the training.)
• AOC will provide CEs for magistrates. (no charge)
• CLE application for judges, attorneys and paralegals is pending.