Trauma-Informed Action Steps
Action Steps
Identified by UO Leaders participating in winter 2022 Trauma-Informed Workshops
Selected sample
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Incorporating trauma-informed leadership into leadership development opportunities for students.
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Build good professional relationships with colleagues that allow me to connect. This is an important precursor for discussing distressing information.
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Be overt and intentional about understanding what safe spaces look like and working diligently to create them.
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Review departmental policies and practices and remove barriers to inclusion
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Redesign meeting processes and protocols so that all members of the community feel heard.
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Address the gender dynamics of trauma in my department.
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Continue working with faculty and staff to incorporate trauma-informed practices into syllabi, recruitment and outreach practices
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Apply the SCARF model to my own leadership and to leadership frameworks in my department
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Read the Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Introduce the trauma-informed concepts that I learned to my unit leadership.
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Practice daily remembering that there is probably trauma in the room and being mindful of language, presence and empathy for others.
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Look for opportunities to repair the harm that was done when we eliminated two BIPOC colleagues’ jobs in our unit.