Trauma-Informed Care Trauma-Informed Care Micro Credential

Ursuline’s courses in trauma-informed care (TIC) will prepare students for trauma-responsive work across a variety of settings and human service professions, including counseling, nursing, education, psychology, and social work, among others. The TIC courses will prepare students to:

• Identify and recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma exposure across the lifespan.
• Engage with trauma-exposed populations using strategies and tools that promote resilience and healing.
• Integrate knowledge about the neurobiology of trauma, historical trauma, and structural oppression into their current and future work as a helping professional.
• Identify the effects of indirect trauma on helping professionals and the organizations where they work, and implement individual- and organizational-level strategies to prevent and address secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue.

Course Offerings

Starting in Fall 2024, students can take any one of the trauma-informed care courses as a single, stand-alone course, or they can take all three courses to complete the Trauma-Informed Care Micro-Credential at Ursuline:

• SW 250: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care
• SW 251: Trauma & the Brain: Case Studies of Complex Trauma
• SW 252: Helping the Helper: Secondary Traumatic Stress Prevention and Mitigation

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Course Format

All TIC courses are offered as 5-week virtual/online classes, making them very accessible and easy to accommodate busy schedules. At this time, TIC courses are only offered in the Fall semester.

Trauma-Informed Care Micro-Credential

If you plan to take all three TIC courses to complete the Trauma-Informed Care Micro-Credential, you will be given a form to complete and submit to your academic advisor. Once you have completed all three courses, you will receive an indicator on your academic transcript that you have completed the TIC micro-credential.

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Questions? Contact TIC course instructor Dr. Kylie Evans.