Trauma-Informed Care Training
This course equips staff and volunteers with a clear understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their long-term impact on health, behaviour, and development. Built around the situations staff face every day and provides staff and volunteers with supportive trauma-informed tools and strategies staff can use immediately.
The course provides participants with a number of coaching tools and self-coaching tools to use with clients to assist them in building resilience, self-regulate and replace what may be maladaptive coping strategies with ones which meet their needs in a healthier way.
Included in this training:
- Identify adverse experiences that can impact on a child’s development
- Toxic stress and its impact on the developing brain
- An awareness of how maladaptive behaviours come into being as a result of ACE’s
- Recognise the purpose certain maladaptive behaviours serve and how those needs can be met in other healthier ways
- How ‘Triune Brain Theory’ awareness can help control stress and anxiety associated with ACE’s
- Top down and bottom up tools for self regulation The impact of ACE’s on health and wellbeing
- An understanding of how building resilience can help mitigate the impact of ACE’s.
- A set of practical tools to help manage behaviour and promote resilience
The course also pays particular attention to the positive experiences that a person may have experienced, recognising and building on their strengths.
Who is the course for
This course is designed for anyone who has an interest in learning about the impact of adverse childhood experiences on mental wellbeing. The course will be of particular use to those who work with or care for children who have experienced ACE’s.
Where The course is available
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, across Scotland and the UK.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are statistically common across the populations most services support. For managers, the key question is not whether trauma exists — but whether staff are equipped to respond effectively and consistently.
This training provides a practical, evidence-informed approach that strengthens staff confidence, reduces escalation, and supports sustainable service delivery.
Cost
1 day bespoke in-house training starts at £850 for up to 12 participants.
One to one online training – £300
1 day online training for up to 12 participants £600
Why This Matters
The Scottish Government has prioritised preventing and mitigating the impact of ACEs across Scotland.
The Scottish Health Survey 2019 found that:
- 71% of adults reported at least one ACE
- 15% reported four or more
- Those with four or more ACEs face significantly increased risks across health, mental wellbeing, substance use and justice involvement
For organisations working with children, young people and vulnerable adults, trauma exposure is highly likely. Without a trauma-informed approach, services often see increased behavioural incidents, staff stress, complaints, and turnover.
What the Research Shows About Staff Outcomes
Qualitative and implementation studies consistently report positive workforce impacts following trauma-informed training.
A qualitative evaluation across community health centres (Choi et al., 2024) found staff reported increased understanding of trauma science, greater empathy, and improved confidence applying trauma-informed approaches in practice.
Qualitative research in residential and substance use services (Mefodeva et al., 2022) found training enhanced reflective practice and staff awareness of secondary trauma, highlighting the importance of self-regulation tools and supervision to sustain workforce wellbeing.
Across studies, the consistent pattern is improved staff knowledge, more reflective responses to behaviour, and greater confidence managing complex presentations.
The training also addresses staff regulation and emotional resilience, supporting reduced burnout and more consistent responses under pressure.
Available in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, across Scotland and UK-wide.