Safe Church Commitment #11
Trauma Informed Leadership
*Required Commitment for Bronze
Bronze & Iron Requirement: All pastoral staff have have and board members completed trauma-informed training in the past three years.
Steel Best Practice: All staff (pastoral and non-pastoral,) volunteers, and board members complete trauma-informed training annually.
If your church has a licensed professional counselor in the congregation, they could provide such a training. If not, below are some various resources for trauma informed training that your church could check out.
Certified Christian Trauma Care Provider Level 1 Certification
How to Become a Trauma-Informed Church (short hour long course, good for volunteers and lay leaders)
Deep and Wide Academy (Sexual Abuse Response Specific)
*These are resources to help you get started. SAI has not taken all of of these courses, so we cannot speak directly to the details of their content.
We do not partner with these organizations or receive anything from them when people purchase a course.
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