SUNY Adirondack offers free Trauma Informed Care training

QUEENSBURY, New York (Dec. 3, 2024) — SUNY Adirondack’s Healthcare Pathways and Hudson Mohawk Area Health partner to offer Trauma Informed Care from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Jan 10, 2025.

This free two-hour training will be delivered via Zoom, and is funded by SUNY Adirondack through a State University of New York Future of Work Centers grant. 

“This training will provide us with the understanding and tools to recognize the effects trauma has on individuals,” said Kim Comisky, director of Healthcare Pathways at SUNY Adirondack. “By embracing a compassionate and responsive approach, we can learn to create an environment where individuals affected by trauma feel safe and supported.”

Trauma Informed Care will provide an overview of how trauma affects learning and behaviors, the brain and body; impacts professionals; and its connection to the brain and body, and its connections to mental health, substance use and chronic disease; and creating a trauma-informed environment.

This program is geared toward those working health care, social care and education. Continuing education credits (CEC) are available for social work, licensed mental health counselors, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech language pathology.

To join Trauma Informed Care, go to https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldOiqrjoiE9J5Z_KDhPFxtfaCp9TAVwBN#/registration. Please contact Kelly Owens at kowens@hmahec.org with any questions.