Creating and sustaining the next generation of trauma-informed social work practitioners

Vision:  Transformed social work trauma education and enhanced and sustained trauma treatment services

Mission: To prepare the current and next generation of social workers for trauma informed and evidence-based practice

• Enhance capacity to provide high quality evidence-based trauma treatment
• Expand opportunities for collaborative application of trauma informed practices in schools of social work, community agencies, and consumer and professional networks

The National Center fulfills its mission by building the capacity of:

• Schools of social work to provide trauma-informed, evidence-based, child, adolescent, and family trauma treatment education and training;
• Social work students to become trauma-informed, evidence-based, culturally sensitive practitioners;
• Community based agencies to provide evidence informed and evidence-based trauma treatment; and
• Field instructors to supervise students learning to implement evidence-based trauma treatment.

There are many ways schools, agencies and students can get involved:

• —Is your Social Work program interested in becoming more trauma informed? Learn more here
• —Is your agency interested in connecting with a social work program that is implementing the full upstream model of training and education? Learn more here
• Are you interested in finding a social work program that offers a Core Concepts course? Learn more here