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Trauma-Informed Care and the Secondary Impacts of COVID-19
November 8, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Alumni, students, faculty and members of the public are invited to the next lecture in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Alumni Association’s 2021-2022 Alumni Series.
Our keynote lecture, presented by Assistant Professor Jane Middelton-Moz, is titled “Trauma-Informed Care and the Secondary Impacts of COVID-19“.
Date: Monday, November 8th, 2021
Time: 6:30pm—8:00pm
Keynote Speaker:
Jane Middelton-Moz, M.S.
Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
About the Talk:
In trauma-informed care, symptoms are viewed as healthy survival responses to an unhealthy and painful life or experience. Healing is impossible without an attuned, kind, safe, and respectful network of support. A therapeutic, healing relationship is one built on attunement, understanding, safety, empowerment, respect and choice.
In this webinar, Jane Middelton-Moz will discuss the triggers leading to a marked increase in domestic violence, suicide attempts, alcohol and drug abuse, anxiety, depression, fear and sleep difficulties since the beginning of COVID-19. The importance of social workers and care providers increasing their understanding of triggers and re-enactments accelerated by the pandemic, worker wellness, working from an attachment, strength based and trauma-informed lens in individual, family, and community healing, and the necessity for trauma-informed schools will be presented.
About Jane Middelton-Moz:
Jane Middelton-Moz is the Director of the Middelton-Moz Institute located in Vermont. Ms. Middelton-Moz has been on the advisory board of the National Association for Native American Children of Alcoholics, the board of the National Association Children of Alcoholics and an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. She has a master’s degree in clinical psychology and over fifty years of experience in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse problems.
Over the last several years, Ms. Middelton-Moz has become well known nationally and internationally for her work in the areas of healing multi-generational grief and trauma in individuals, families and communities, lateral violence, healing the effects cultural oppression, resiliency, trauma-informed schools and caregiving systems, community intervention, work with multiple four-generation families healing from the residential school experience, and multi-generational sexual and physical abuse in families.
She is the author of seven books and the co-author of five. Ms. Middelton-Moz has appeared on national television including Oprah, Montel Williams, Discovery and has her own PBS Special. She is on the faculty of the University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash School of Social Work MSW in the Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency Field of Study.