Trauma-informed care (TIC) is widely adopted across healthcare, education, and social services—but without an explicit focus on culture, power, and equity, it can unintentionally replicate the very harms it seeks to address. This session explores how to deepen trauma-informed practice through an anti-oppressive lens that centers cultural humility, systemic awareness, and equity-driven action.
Participants will examine how structural racism, gender oppression, ableism, and other systemic inequities shape trauma experiences and service delivery. Through practical frameworks, reflection, and case examples, attendees will learn how to create culturally responsive, relational, and justice-oriented environments that promote healing without causing further harm.
This session is ideal for clinicians, educators, leaders, community practitioners, and organizations committed to advancing equitable, culturally grounded trauma-informed systems.
