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Trauma-Informed Care: Supporting People Affected by Substance Use
Original Recording Date :
University of Buffalo School of Social Work Office of Continuing Education
Course Format
Hybrid: Recorded video online activity and reading-based online activity.
This course is an elective course in the Online Trauma-Informed Organization Certificate Program that was created by the University at Buffalo School of Social Work’s Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (ITTIC).
The elective course offers a foundation of information regarding implementation of Trauma-Informed Care in organizations and systems that support people who use substances. This course intends to support all actors within such systems -- whether in clinical or non-clinical roles -- to integrate knowledge on trauma and skills related to a trauma-informed approach into their interactions with people seeking services and supports. The course also explores integrating the principles of a trauma-informed approach into interactions with colleagues as well as embedding these principles in overall organizational culture. The module spans a variety of relevant topics and provides concrete guidance on best practices when applying each value/principle of a trauma-informed approach in relevant settings.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the connections between trauma and alcohol/substance use;
- Identify factors that both increase and mitigate risk/vulnerability to adverse impacts and outcomes when using substances;
- Discuss the unintentional harm caused by re-traumatization within organizations, communities, and systems;
- Apply specific strategies, skills, and practices that can be utilized to advance trauma-informed approaches both by individuals in the workforce as well as collectively in organizations and systems; and
- Recognize the impacts of the work and how to implement trauma-informed strategies to maximize workforce wellbeing.
Target Audience: This course is appropriate for all levels of leaders, professionals, and allied staff who work within organizations and systems that support people who use substances seeking foundational information on trauma and a Trauma-Informed approach.
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Jamy Stammel, Adjunct Professor, University at Buffalo
Jamy is an LCSW graduate of the University at Buffalo where she is currently an adjunct in the Graduate School of Social Work teaching Perspectives on Trauma and Human Rights: Contemporary Theory, Research, Policy & Practice and also Child Abuse and Neglect. She received an MA in women’s studies from the University at Albany. She was an adjunct professor at the University at Albany for three years. She is currently working at bestself Behavioral Health and was an Assistant Program Director prior to moving over to a counselor IV position which is a private practitioner within an agency setting. She oversees the adolescent treatment program at her site and piloted a trauma track to streamline services to trauma treatment effectively. She has trauma specific training in Cognitive Processing Therapy and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) and is a DBT therapist trained through the Linehan Institute. She is the co-chair of the TICTAC (Trauma-Informed Care Treatment Advisory Committee) for her agency. She is trained in gender-affirming care, International Critical Incident Individual and Group Debriefing and is in the process of the two-year training through WPATH (The World Professional Association for Transgender Health). Her areas of specialty are trauma, substance use disorders, PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, LGBTQIA2S+ and adolescents. She is an advisory board member for the Trauma Informed Community Initiative of Western New York (TICI). At ITTIC, Jamy is a SAMHSA trainer, and provides training, consultation and coaching to staff in both ITTIC's projects with Catholic Health and CHCANYS. She has presented at three of the International Congress on Law and Mental Health conferences around various aspects of trauma informed care, trauma treatment and systems.
