Professional Development at Growing Forward Together

Advanced education for people who work with trauma survivors

These days, it’s easy to find “Trauma 101” offerings. It’s more challenging to find professional development that will truly take a team up several levels to be more sophisticated, confident in new skills, and ready to change practice. Professional Development at Growing Forward Together (PD@GFT) content is produced by academic and clinical experts on complex PTSD.

Not all people with trauma experienced childhood maltreatment (CMT). But CMT is a risk factor for more trauma across the lifespan and for PTSD, depression, and substance use and other coping strategies that take a toll. CMT also affects client relationships with professionals. PD@GFT offerings take this into account in education for healthcare, education and human services professionals.

PD@GFT also uses best practices in healthcare simulation. This means that most of our offerings build in a chance to practice applying new information in a simulated interaction with a client, student, colleague, or administrator.

Offerings will become available in Canvas in January 2025.

Are you interested in a customized professional development offering from the Growing Forward Together team? Please reach out to julia.seng@survivormoms.org to discuss your training program needs.