Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented, and Equitable (TIROE) Care: Developing a TIROE Workforce Meeting Package

Adopting trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and equitable (TIROE) care principles and practices improves client and staff engagement and retention, outcomes, and experience with care. A TIROE workforce has organization-wide support and active staff involvement in recruitment, hiring, and retention.

This meeting package is designed to help sexual and reproductive health organizations: identify strategies to develop and sustain a TIROE workforce; and build compassion resilience among staff.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this meeting package, participants will be able to:

• Explain how hiring practices can aid in building and sustaining a trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and equitable (TIROE) workforce
• Define compassion resilience and describe how to foster compassion resilience among staff

How to Use this Resource:

This meeting package is designed as a follow-on to the TIROE Care: Helping Staff & Clients Feel Safe Meeting Package. Use this meeting package to facilitate group discussion. Staff of varied roles are encouraged to complete the meeting package together as a team.

To Prepare for the Meeting: 

• Identify ample time and appropriate space for uninterrupted discussion. This meeting package is designed to facilitate a one-hour staff meeting (or two shorter ones), including time to watch the videos.
• Invite staff to participate in the meeting. 
• Make sure all team members have copies of the activities and worksheets.

To view this meeting package and play the videos, you will need:

• A computer/audio-visual set-up 
• If facilitating a virtual meeting, a virtual meeting platform that enables screen sharing"

Other Meeting Packages in this Series

Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented, & Equitable (TIROE) Care: Helping Staff & Clients Feel Safe Meeting Package