Contract Work

TRI works with governmental agencies, corporations, nonprofits, and other private and public entities to create specialty trainings, tools, and interventions to help address the specific needs of employees or served populations. These projects help fund our overall mission and operations, including staffing, research studies, equipment, and other expenses.

  • We develop client managed-tools, programs and processes.
    • We work with behavioral health providers and mental health professionals, contracted through local or regional healthcare providers.
    • In corporate and institutional settings, programs are geared for management, HR, and non-mental health professionals to implement.
  • We host project development sessions and trainings.
  • We provide reactive and proactive consulting, e.g. trauma-informed care and services.

Customized work can address:

  • Providers and Staff Working with Vulnerable Populations
    • Military Veterans
    • Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
    • People in Addiction Recovery
    • At-risk Youth
  • High-risk Skilled Occupations
    • Resilience building for those exposed to chronic stress in their work

Contract Clients include:

  • Corporations
    • Microsoft, Pemco
  • Healthcare Systems
    • University of Washington, Kaiser Permanente
  • Social Service Agencies
    • Washington State Department of Corrections, Department of Health and Human Services, Jewish Family Services
  • Foundations
    • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Psychotherapies and Brief Psychological Interventions

TRI works with health care, counseling, and behavioral health care organizations. These trainings help mental health and behavioral specialists learn new skills and better equip the organization to improve patient outcomes.

Contract Lead

  • Health Care, Counseling, Behavioral Health Care Organizations

Training Participants

  • Mental Health and Behavioral Specialists

Training Options

  • Synchronous Online Training
    • Live Video + Digital Content
  • In-Person Trainings

Content Tailoring

  • Turnkey curriculum can be customized as needed
  • TRI can develop implementation strategies for contract partners to own and manage (e.g., consultation)

Trauma-Related Curriculum

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
  • Psychological First Aid
  • Skills for Psychological Recovery
  • Exposure Therapies

Organization Benefit

  • Trainees learn new skills
  • Organization is better-equipped to improve patient outcomes

Patient Benefit

  • Improved mental health and physical health outcomes – direct (for patient) and indirect (patient loved ones)
  • Adaptive coping skills, better quality of life

Arrange a free consultation to discuss your options: triheal@uw.edu

Trauma-Informed Care Trainings

TRI works with organizations to support implementation of trauma-informed care, including health care organizations, community groups and nonprofits, social service organizations, and departments of corrections. Our training and content help health care providers, community members, and staff/employees, including those who do not have specialty training in mental health learn to support the needs of individuals with trauma-exposed compassionately and effectively.

Contract Lead

  • Organizations that implement Trauma-Informed Care, including:
    • Health Care Organizations
    • Community Groups and Nonprofits
    • Social Service Organizations
    • Departments of Corrections (Federal, State and County)

Training Participants

  • Health Care Providers, Community Members, Staff/Employees
    • Including individuals who do not have specialty training in mental health

Training Options

  • Synchronous Online Training
    • Live Video + Digital Content
  • In-Person Trainings

Content Tailoring

  • Turnkey curriculum can be customized as needed
  • TRI can develop implementation strategies for contract partners to own and manage (e.g., consultation)

Deliverables

  • Online and/or in-person presentations
  • Infographics of key skills
  • Copies of key materials that can be distributed and posted internally
  • Consultation on implementation tailored to specific organizational needs
  • Interactive content to practice skills

Organization Benefit

  • Trainees learn models of trauma informed care and strategies to implement practices
    • Includes self-care component to protect mental health and physical safety of the trainee and other care providers
  • Organizations increase safety and reduce stress for trainees; increase safety and reduce stress for those for whom trainees provide care

Care Recipient Benefit

  • Improved mental health and physical health outcomes – direct (for patient) and indirect (patient loved ones)
  • Adaptive coping skills, better quality of life

Arrange a free consultation to discuss your options: triheal@uw.edu

Employee and Community Resilience Trainings

TRI works with organizations or community groups that want to support and develop trainee well-being and resilience, including for-profit and nonprofit corporations, community organizations, health care organizations, and universities. Trainings help employees, volunteers, students, and community members learn and use effective skills to improve coping and well-being.

Contract Lead

  • Organizations or community groups that want to support and develop trainee skills, including:
    • For-profit and nonprofit corporations (all sizes)
    • Community organizations
    • Health care organizations
    • Universities

Trainees

  • Employees
  • Volunteers
  • Students
  • Community Members

Training Options

  • Synchronous Online Training
    • Live Video + Digital Content
  • In-Person Trainings

Content Tailoring

  • Turnkey curriculum can be customized as needed
  • Trauma and recovery education
  • Best practices to facilitate individual resilience and well-being
  • Best practices for supervisors and managers to support employee resilience and well-being

Deliverables

  • Online and/or in-person presentations
  • Infographics of key skills
  • Copies of key materials that can be distributed and posted internally

Organization Benefit

  • Reduce burnout among trainees and improve their mental health
  • Increase the mental health and wellbeing throughout the organization, campus or community

Trainee Benefit

  • Improved mental health and physical health outcomes
  • Adaptive coping skills, better quality of life
  • Learn skills to manage stress, improve mood, increase social connection, self-critical thinking

Arrange a free consultation to discuss your options: triheal@uw.edu

Front Line Mental Health Virtual Learning Collaboratives

TRI works with healthcare, counseling, and behavioral health care organizations to support professional development and community building for those who provide direct mental health services to individuals who are trauma-exposed . Trainings and curriculum help mental health and behavioral specialists, and counselors/therapists develop expertise in evidence-based, culturally-mindful interventions.

Contract Lead

  • Health Care, Counseling, Behavioral Health Care Organizations

Participants

  • Mental Health and Behavioral Specialists
  • Counselors/Therapists

Training Options

  • Synchronous Online Training
    • Live Video + Digital Content

Content Tailoring

  • Interventions to address common-trauma related problems
  • May include training in specific evidence-based therapies
    • Cognitive processing therapy
    • Skills for psychological recovery
    • General therapy skills (e.g., cognitive restructuring, exposure, acceptance-based strategies)
    • Trauma-informed care principles
    • On-going education and consultation via 2-monthly (or similar) meetings to support learning and implementation (e.g., ECHO model)

Deliverables

  • Online learning communities hosted via video conference
  • Can contract for additional training and/or possible program evaluation

Organization Benefit

  • Provide trainees with new/better skills and ideally increase sense of professional community
  • Decrease burnout and increase job satisfaction
  • Provide care recipients with better outcomes

Trainee Benefit

  • Feel part of a collaborative professional community and network; reduce professional isolation

Arrange a free consultation to discuss your options: triheal@uw.edu

Trauma Informed Care and Services Curriculum Development

TRI works with organizations or communities in need of training materials on behavioral interventions to roll-out to trainees as needed. Curriculum helps healthcare, counseling providers, and behavioral health care organizations.

Contract Lead
  • Organizations or communities in need of training materials on behavioral interventions to roll-out to trainees as needed
    • Healthcare
    • Counseling providers
    • Behavioral health care organizations
Content Tailoring
  • TRI will deliver guidance, analysis and details of proven interventions and strategies; raw copy that organizations can customize with layouts, graphics, video, etc. to best suit their training and distribution needs.
Deliverables
  • Trauma-specific content that groups can present as standalone curriculum or integrated into a larger training/curriculum
Organization Benefit
  • Better trained staff
  • Solutions customized to the specific needs of trainees and the people they serve
Arrange a free consultation to discuss your options: triheal@uw.edu
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