Building a Trauma-Informed and Responsive Workforce
Key Findings:
Training exists, but inconsistent content and implementation impede State efforts to establish a common approach to working with children and families who experienced trauma.
Agencies lack systems to track training completion, competencies, and further professional development needs among staff and contracted organizations.
Workforce challenges—including staffing shortages, turnover, funding, and technology gaps—make training program development and implementation difficult.
Task Force policy recommendations to refine workforce practices:
Establish training requirements on trauma-responsive practices held consistent across child-serving State agencies
Cross-agency collaboration works. Establish training requirements on trauma-responsive practices held consistent across child-serving State agencies
Conduct shared training initiatives between State agencies' staff to improve knowledge and promote more consistent, trauma-informed practices.
Standardized training, improved competencies, and stronger statewide coordination are needed to better support children and families affected by trauma.
