Coming Fall 25: TiD Credentialing Course
This is the base-level course required for credentialing through the Trauma-informed Design Society.
Available spots
Service Description
Level: Beginner Duration: 16 weeks Instructors: Christine Cowart and Janet Roche Learners: Up to 20 This course uses a muti-media approach to learning, and provides students the opportunity to apply their learning through discussions, field observation, research, and design applications. The course culminates in a 7,500 square foot final design project, including full design and four design boards. Participants are asked to choose a site, research the population to be served, and justify their design choices using the TiD principles learned in this course. Participants will: * Explore the Trauma-informed Design Framework and how TiD is applying the principles of trauma-informed care to design. This will include seeing TiD as design for health with an equity lens, and explore how to anticipate potential triggers and implement design features and elements that mitigate stress through case-study precedents. * Learn about the wide range of applications for trauma-informed design. * Gain experience applying the TiD Framework to a theoretical design project.. * Develop an understanding of importance of a trauma-informed approach to the design process, including population research, participatory design, and the use of inclusive, affirming language. * Learn about adverse childhood experiences, adverse community experiences, and the full scope of trauma, including historical, structural, and collective trauma, and how experiencing inequities can have the same negative impact on their long-term health outcomes as other traumas. * Be able to identify the biological responses that can occur in the human body because of trauma and toxic stress levels, and the wider possible health impacts of trauma on individuals, communities, and beyond. * Become familiar with the framework for trauma-informed care, based in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) six key principles of a trauma-informed approach. This is an interactive class experience. Participants will engage with partners as well as in online forums with others throughout the course. Instructors provide consistent feedback by engaging in online discussions, holding office hours, and providing detailed feedback on all graded assignments and projects. The course includes pre-scheduled synchronous sessions, in which participants will be asked to share their work for feedback and coaching from others.
Cancellation Policy
Participants must attend the full session of synchronous meetings. Participants joining more than 15 minutes past the scheduled start time may not be admitted to the session. If a participant must miss the session, he or she should reach out to the instructor as soon as it becomes evident, to discuss whether the absence may be made up at another time. In order to be eligible for a refund, cancellations of courses must be received prior to the start of the course. A credit, which may be used for other services or purchases from Trauma-informed Design Society, may be provided for enrollments cancelled after the course begins.
Contact Details
info@tidsociety.com