Name: Multicultural Approaches to Trauma Informed Care
Start: 2025-09-26T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-26T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Historic Hose Tower

Multicultural Approaches to Trauma Informed Care

This training helps participants learn about trauma and implications of traumatic experiences on the brain through neuroscience perspective.
About this Event

This training helps participants learn about trauma and implications of traumatic experiences on the brain through a neuroscience perspective that offers a broadened perspective to behavior and intervention. Understanding these concepts and incorporating a new ‘multicultural trauma informed lens’ can reshape our interactions with minoritized communities. Knowing this approach helps participants advocate and implement new strategies in their professional settings.

Learning Objectives:

· Learn about the history, research, and foundation of Trauma Informed Care. 2

· Learn about Trauma Informed Care from a historical, generational, and racial lens.

· Identify the impact of trauma and culture on minoritized populations.

· Explore the elements of a trauma responsive community and supports available in the community.

Schedule (6.5 CEUs):

8:00-8:30am – Attendee Registration/Check-in
8:30-10:00am- Learn about the history, research, and foundation of Trauma Informed Care. (1.5 hrs)
10:00-10:15am- BREAK
10:15-11:45a-Learn about Trauma Informed Care from a historical, generational, and racial lens. (1.5 hrs)
11:45-12:45 pm – Lunch (attendees and speaker are on their own)
12:45-2:45pm- Identify the impact of trauma and culture on minoritized populations. (2.0 hrs)
2:45-2:55pm- BREAK
2:55-4:25 pm- Explore the elements of a trauma responsive community and support available in the community. (1.5hrs)
4:25-4:30pm- Wrap up, Q&A

Meet the Speaker:

McKenna Garvey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Perinatal Mental Health Certified Therapist. As an Outpatient Clinical Supervisor she specializes in complex trauma, personality disorders, and self-destructive behavior. Additionally, she holds an AODA certificate and brings trauma-informed expertise to her clinical work.

In her training role, McKenna delivers content on topics including multicultural trauma-informed care, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and identity work.

Her global experience also includes refugee resettlement and family reunification, underlining her commitment to social justice and equity. She integrates lived experience, somatic mind–body approaches, and trauma-informed principles into her workshops and supervision