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Cultivating Trauma-Informed Spaces in Education Promising Practices Manual is an outcome of a Sheridan Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activities Growth Grant. The project goal was to develop proactive measures to enhance student support, and safer learning experiences, and reduce trauma, re-traumatization, and vicarious trauma. The Manual is intended to support increased awareness of trauma and the importance of Trauma-Informed Education in post-secondary education. It includes a framework, including macro, mezzo, and micro level organizational recommendations and pedagogical practices. It is a tool to support educators and educational institutions, through a preventative and harm-reducing approach, to support more compassionate, supportive, equitable and flexible learning spaces and workplaces.

In this webinar, we will be joined by Sarah Crawford of the Umbrella Project at Algonquin College, who will talk to us about harm reduction, substance use, and the incredible work the Umbrella Project has done to create a safer space on campus to discuss the impact of alcohol and other drugs.

In this webinar we are joined by James Tregonning, Indigenous Transition Coordinator and Instructor at Cambrian College, to talk about an indigenous model of self-care, how it differs from the current popular understanding, and how he has integrated it into his work supporting Indigenous students.

In this webinar, we welcome APSIP – the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Information Program – for an informative session about accessibility and other student support services available at colleges, universities, and polytechnics across Ontario and Quebec.