Who We Serve
The Gulf Coast Trauma Institute can help support your organization’s goals of increasing positive behavioral health outcomes, resilience, and hope for your employees and people you serve through implementing research-based, trauma-informed care principles and practices. Explore how we provide expert consultation services and training to a broad range of people and settings.
Schools
Schools across the nation are reporting sharp increases in student behavior problems, poor learning outcomes, and low morale and retention of educational staff. Although some of these issues may have always been present to some degree, the COVID-19 exacerbated many of these problems by creating uncertainty, fear, disrupted neurological and academic development, along with taking away protective factors like daily structure, social supports, and routine. Our training and consultation curriculum, Restore for Schools™, addresses all of these factors, and provides comprehensive training that focuses on creating a school system that fosters safety, regulation, connection, and purpose for both educators and students.
In-Patient
In-patient settings typically work with populations who have been exposed to incredibly high rates of stress, adversity, and trauma. These settings can include residential treatment, stabilization units, and short-term shelters. If your organization does not have specific plans and protocols in place to ensure your staff can manage the extreme emotional and behavioral reactions that can occur, employees can quickly experience job dissatisfaction, burnout, and can in some cases cause harm to the people they serve. Treatment outcomes can suffer as well, especially if people don’t feel safe and supported in these environments.
Businesses
Providing trauma-informed training to your business isn’t just a good idea, it’s good business! Creating a sense of safety and promoting healthy habits to combat stress can do wonders to improve morale, increase worker retention, and increase productivity. Whether it’s providing stress-management training to your employees, reviewing both HR and organizational policy and practices to ensure the follow research-based recommendations for best-practice models, or providing executive coaching to administrators, we’ve got you covered. Our approach provides businesses the tools they need to build a supportive and projective business environment.
Healthcare
Healthcare leaders are well aware that if their organization does not provide a patient-centered trauma-informed environment, then patients may be more likely to experience confusion navigating the health system, distrust of medical personnel, and possibly be re-traumatized during their medical visits. This can lead to poor health outcomes, demoralized staff, and ultimately higher healthcare costs. That’s why we take a comprehensive approach to supporting healthcare providers with our Restore for Healthcare™ training program, which aims to 1) enhances patient care through increasing transparency, cultural sensitivity, and patient choice, 2) provides tools for medical personnel and health systems to combat stress and boost employee morale, and 3) works with medical training programs to integrate trauma knowledge and trauma-informed practices into their educational curricula.
Prenatal, Early Childhood, and Families
Agencies who specialize in pregnancy, young children, and families are often working with highly vulnerable people who need immediate and comprehensive support. To ensure the best outcomes, agency leaders know their staff need to use the most current evidenced-based and developmentally appropriate interventions. Whether you run a daycare, preschool, early childhood center, foster/adoption agency, or the department of human services, we can provide engaging and dynamic training on best practices that foster healthy prenatal care, maternal wellness, parent-child attachment, and proper child development. Because staff who work in this field can often experience burnout and compassion fatigue, our approach also focuses on training staff on stress management tools and long term wellness strategies.
First Responders
Those whose job is to protect and serve others (e.g., police, fire, EMS, mobile crisis workers, dispatch/communication personnel, etc.) often experience some of the highest levels of chronic stress and burnout compared to almost all other professions. Agency leaders know that to maintain the psychological and physical health of their first responders, they need extensive training on crisis and de-escalation responses along with stress management tools and wellness strategies. Our Restore for Law Enforcement™ and Restore for Firefighters™ programs take into consideration the unique stressors faced by law enforcement and firefighters, and provide cutting-edge, research-based training on mental health, trauma, and stress management.