Training and Program Development Services
​Customized for your Organization, Staff and Persons Under your Care

​“… in this field we so often focus on behaviors as though the behavior is driving the person and the behavior is the issue, when it’s really a symptom. And what it’s often a symptom of is post-traumatic stress disorder.”

​​✔  Topics including Trauma-Informed Care, Behavioral Interventions, Positive Strategies for Healing, Positive Identity Development for Persons with ID/DD and, of much concern today, Coping with the Special Trauma of Covid  

​✔  Delivered as Seminars, Webinars, Videos, Comprehensive Presentations, Workshops, Podcasts, Keynote Addresses

​✔  For Various Audiences including Staff on Every Level, Trainers and Clinicians
 

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Staff Training: 

​Dr. Harvey offers Trauma-Informed Care Sessions for Direct-Support Professionals (DSPs), Mid-Level Managers and Administrators.  The training for Staff is designed to facilitate an understanding of trauma and its behavioral manifestations.  It presents the key ingredients for healing for people with ID/DD on a clear and practical level.  Training can take two hours, three hours or all day.

Training the Trainers:

​Dr. Harvey trains experienced trainers and clinicians in the field of ID/DD to conduct Trauma-Informed Care instruction in their own organizations.  This training will be specifically modified to meet the needs of the people supported in these organizations.  It can include new hire training as well as annual or bi-annual refreshers.  Slides and materials will be provided, and training can span two or three days.

Training the Clinicians:

​Dr. Harvey is also available to train Clinicians to work therapeutically with people with ID/DD.  This will include instruction in trauma-informed support as well as in the Positive Identity Approach to therapy.  Materials will be provided.

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"The whole field of psychology is starting to realize the toll trauma takes on the mental health of humans.  And finally we're bringing it into the field of disabilities and realizing that people with disabilities are no different.  We can't think of them as another class of person, though we might need to apply what we've learned about trauma in a different way.  So it's an evolution."