THRIVING

Helping Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Heal and Thrive Following Trauma

Facilitator Toolkit

The Thriving Facilitator Toolkit includes the complete materials needed to host a Thriving workshop in your organization and/or community.

The toolkit includes:

Slide Deck: the complete Powerpoint presentation with notes.
Facilitator Guide: Useful background information and tips for hosting a workshop, plus presenter notes for each slide.
Participant Manual: copies of the slides with room for notes and worksheets to accompany the activities.
Advertising Toolkit: printable and shareable images, flyers, and brochures to help you reach your audience.

Who Can Host a Thriving Workshop?

Our goal in developing the Thriving Workshop and Facilitator Toolkit is to make it freely available and accessible to train as many people as possible in trauma-informed care. There are no special requirements for hosting a Thriving Workshop beyond a dedication to improving the lives of people with IDD who have experienced trauma.

Hosts are encouraged to have some relevant experience in supporting people with IDD, trauma-informed services, and/or mental health, but need not be an "expert" in these areas. The Toolkit provides recommended scripts for each slide in the presentation. They are meant as suggestions, not required scripts, but may help to fill in some gaps in knowledge or experience. If you are interested in hosting a workshop but do not feel sufficiently knowledgeable in a topic, you may also consider working with a co-facilitator or inviting guest speakers.

Acknowledgements

THRIVING would not be possible with out the support of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). THRIVING is an adaptation of "The Road to Recovery: Supporting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Have Experienced Trauma" developed by the NCTSN. This toolkit, designed for providers of children with IDD, is available at the NCTSN Learning Center.

https://www.nctsn.org/resources/road-recovery-supporting-children-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-who-have

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the WITH Foundation.

Facilitator Guide

The Facilitator Guide includes notes pages for each slide in the slide deck, plus useful tips and strategies for hosting a Thriving Workshop.

Download the Thriving Facilitator Guide

Slide Deck

The file below contains the complete powerpoint presentation for the Thriving Workshop. You may edit these slides to customize them for your workshop and audience. For example, you may change some images, delete some slides, or make changes to the text. You may break the modules up, or drop some modules altogether depending on your audience. We ask that you indicate that materials have been modified from the original and that you retain the acknowledgement slides at the beginning and end of the slide deck to thank those who have dedicated significant time, effort, and funding of the project.

Download Thriving Full Slidedeck

Thriving Card Game

Module 4 includes a group activity to get participants thinking and talking about risk and protective factors and how they might work within their role to help a hypothetical client exhibiting the given risk or protective factor. The card game, below, is designed for in-person workshops. If you are hosting a virtual workshop, the Thriving board game can be played online at http://tiny.cc/THRIVING_boardgame. See the Facilitator Guide for details and game play instructions.

The cards for the card game can be printed on standard business card paper found at any office supply store. If your budget is limited, you may print one set for each group/table at the workshop. If funding is available, you might consider providing each participant with a set so that they may share the activity with others in their organization.

Download Thriving Card Backs and print the back of the cards on the business card template paper.

Download Thriving Card Game Scenarios. These are the risk and protective scenarios for the cards that you can print on the front of the business card template paper.

Participant Manual

The Participant Manual contains thumbnail images of the slides with room for participants to take notes, activity worksheets, and the Personalized Trauma-Informed Action Plan. The participant manual can be printed for workshop participants or emailed for virtual workshops.

Download Thriving Participant Manual

Advertising Toolkit

The advertising materials below can be downloaded and edited to add dates and locations for your workshops. Simple text can be added using most PDF readers and editors, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Alternatively, a link is provided for each item to an editable template in Canva. You can access, edit, and download each of these advertising materials using a free Canva account.