Course 2: Living Trauma Aware for Perinatal Practitioners
LA County Medi-Cal Doula Hub E-Learning 3-Course Pack
This 75-minute course, presented by Dr. Sayida Peprah-Wilson, will focus on increasing the competence, sensitivity and humility of perinatal care providers, in an effort to promote the establishment of trauma-free and supportive perinatal care environments for all birthing people. Additionally, the course will focus on increasing provider’s ability to detect and assess for significant trauma coping deficits and/or strengths among diverse birthing communities, which impact perinatal wellbeing and emotional safety.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Utilize techniques to engage in a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive and humble ways with pregnant, birthing and postpartum individuals.
Define Simple, Complex and Historical Trauma.
Identify key situations to use trauma-informed communications at the bedside.
