From Crisis to Resilience: Addressing Trauma and Toxic Stress in Workforce Development and Education Systems
Promoting healing and resilience in a trauma-impacted landscape
A pervasive mental and emotional health crisis is impacting individuals seeking to join or rejoin the nation’s workforce — a challenge recognized by workforce development organizations and educational institutions alike. Concurrently, frontline staff in these systems are grappling with their own trauma, stress and burnout, while they have limited resources to effectively support the individuals they serve.
That’s why Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW) and InsideTrack collaborated to write a comprehensive white paper — From Crisis to Resilience: Addressing Trauma and Toxic Stress in Workforce Development and Education Systems. This white paper dives into research showing the impact of trauma and toxic stress on individuals along their education-to-career pathways and offers tangible trauma-informed, healing centered approaches for practitioners and leaders to use as they seek to address this complex challenge at their own organizations. Plus from-the-field insights woven throughout.
Download “From Crisis to Resilience” for frameworks to support the well-being of workforce participants and students — as well as the staff members who serve them.
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The impacts of trauma exposure on learning pathways
In this white paper, you’ll find:
Learnings from trauma and toxic stress research
- Discover how higher levels of toxic stress and trauma are undermining the success of individuals on the path to opportunity
- Learn how adopting trauma-informed, healing-centered approaches can empower individuals and strengthen their ability to succeed in education, training and employment
- See how equipping staff with tools, training and resources helps them to become agents of positive change
Two proven tools to help you build resilience
- CSW’s trauma-informed support framework — an in-depth checklist for organizations to evaluate how they can best support their employees
- InsideTrack’s healing-centered engagement framework — including the CLEAR framework and instructions to shape conversations with individuals who might be experiencing trauma or stress
Three “Voices From the Field” sections that spotlight real practitioner insights. Interviewees include:
- Emily Bergt, financial education and data coordinator for the Detroit at Work public workforce development system
- Hester Hamby, career technical education and workforce development director for Coosa County Schools in Alabama
- Jim Hollis, executive director of nonprofit Calculus Roundtable
- Gabriella Lora, STEM projects coordinator for nonprofit Calculus Roundtable
Want to dive even deeper? Be sure to watch the companion webinar on this important topic — From Crisis to Resilience: Healing-Centered Support Approaches for Education and Workforce Systems — on demand.
