Bethany House, a Local Homeless Shelter, Partners with the Cincinnati LEND Program to Improve Trauma-Informed Care for Shelter Staff and Resident Families

February 25, 2020

LEND trainees have partnered with researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital as part of an ongoing project to provide trauma-informed care training to homeless shelter staff. The team has partnered with Bethany House, a local homeless shelter, to implement the training curriculum for staff members to connect better with the families they serve.

The team at Cincinnati Children's is currently adapting a trauma-informed curriculum to provide shelter staff. In the upcoming months, the LEND team will meet with the shelter staff to conduct training sessions. Within the training sessions, we will address the staff's understanding of the effects on trauma and ask what the needs of the shelter are. Training sessions with include education on concepts like understanding triggers of trauma and how that would look as external behaviors. The team hopes to implement this curriculum with other homeless shelters in the area.