A3 - Strengthening the Healthy Start (HS) Workforce & Advancing Equity in HS Communities: Moving from Trauma-Informed to Trauma-informed, Resilience-Oriented and Equitable (TIROE)

Sunday, May 7, 2023

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CST

Location: Studio 7/8

Primary Presenter(s)

Dominique Maffei, MSc (she/her/hers)

Associate Project Director
National Institute for Children's Health Quality
Chelsea, Massachusetts

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Presenter(s)

Kenn Harris, LMin (he/him/his)

Vice President for Engagement & Community Partnerships
National Institute for Children's Health Quality
Linda Henderson-Smith, PhD, LPC, CPCS, CCMP (she/her/hers)

Founder and Principal
ATC Consulting LLC
Stone Mountain, GA

Author(s)

Latosha Elbert, BS, CLC (she/her/hers)

Project Director
Heart of Georgia Healthy Start
Dublin, GA

Co-Author(s)

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Olivia Giordano Kean, MPH (she/her/hers)

Senior Project Manager
National Institute for Children's Health Quality

To support the 101 Healthy Start (HS) programs, the HS Technical Assistance (TA) and Support Center (TASC) provides TA, training, and education to HS grantees. In response to the complex trauma HS communities have experienced as a result of historical trauma, COVID, and the nation’s ongoing racial injustice, the TASC and Dr. Linda Henderson-Smith developed three Trauma-informed, Resilience-Oriented and Equitable Care (TIROE) TA offerings for grantees: a TIROE Community of Practice, a Podcast Series, and a Whitepaper and Roadmap. These activities intentionally infuse equity into trauma-informed care (TIC) principles and practices, in an effort to target the intersection between structural inequities and trauma. In this workshop, we share the TASC’s and Dr. Henderson-Smith’s approach to developing these TIROE activities, including the evolution from TIC to TIROE, and challenges and successes related to the implementation.