Care-Full Leadership: Managing with Trauma-Informed Care

To register for this webinar please follow this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8217534009463/WN_m2UyGfbjSquO35yAcg0pZQ. Sessions are free and available only to members of the Michigan library community. Registrants will receive instructions and a link to attend the session directly from PCI after they register.

This PCI webinar will give library leaders tools to bring trauma-informed care into day-to-day management and library structures. Participants will learn how to better support staff and their communities, handle difficult situations, and build a work environment where folks feel safe, respected, and seen.

This session starts with laying the groundwork for understanding trauma and trauma-informed care, then moves into practical ways to apply these principals in library management. Through potential scenarios and guided discussions, participants will explore how trauma-informed approaches can help navigate workplace challenges and create healthier team dynamics. Participants will also be given some reflective prompts to continue to build and create trauma-informed workspaces after the session.

As a result of this program, attendees will learn how to:

• Clearly define trauma and trauma-informed care.
• Recognize the need to trauma-informed approaches in library work.
• Identify tangible ways to enact trauma-informed principles to workplace policy, leadership, and public service.
• Build library spaces that reduce harm, are trauma-informed, and support team morale.

Instructor: Leah T. Dudak is a former librarian and current Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University’s Information School. Dudak’s research looks at public libraries and the trauma that library staff encounter giving attention to supporting library workers, systemic issues contributing to trauma, trauma-informed care, and librarianship. She currently works with Urban Librarians Unite as their research assistant, helping with the 2022 trauma study along with the forthcoming peer support network. She holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois.

PCI Webinars are recorded and available to members of the Michigan library community in the Library of Michigan's Niche Staff Skills Academy about a week after they air. New webinars will be in the New category for several weeks. You do not need to register for a webinar in order to view it later in the Staff Skills Academy.

This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.