{"id":835,"date":"2024-10-04T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2024-10-04T23:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T23:26:16","slug":"trauma_informed_workplace_reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Why this? Why now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and the challenges of today&#8217;s complex world that affect our workplaces<\/h3><p><strong>70%<\/strong>\u00a0of U.S. adults have experienced at least one traumatic event. <strong>Almost 20%<\/strong>\u00a0of us have 4 or more of the 10 adverse childhood experiences that relate to trauma and increased risk of physical and mental health challenges. <strong>5%<\/strong>\u00a0of us have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder\/Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.<\/p><p>Yet, when I asked a room of 500 human resource professionals if they had trauma-sensitive policies in place for this significant number of people, they looked at me like I had three heads. Furthermore, hours and hours of research and digging has shown that while we have begun to talk about healing our trauma, and might be talking about in regard to education or health providers there is just not much about trauma in our organizations.<\/p><p>We don\u2019t discuss it. We sweep it under the rug. We are trauma-affected &#8211; oblivious to how trauma is impacting our employees, our businesses, and our world.<\/p><p>I want to change that.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc525a049-c1b2-4ec9-99d1-d11d34ff6ea3_4000x2250.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc525a049-c1b2-4ec9-99d1-d11d34ff6ea3_4000x2250.png\" alt=\"Illustration of a girl with the word trauma over her mouth representing adverse childhood experiences and how they show up in our workplaces\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Copyright i.d.lumination 2024. All Rights Reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><\/p><p>This space will provide stories, research, ideas and more to help to break the silence on trauma response in the workplace and shine a light on the power of our humanness\u2026because I truly believe that it is in the darkest places of our humanity that our highest potentials lie.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?product=safeandsound\">Pre-Order Safe &amp; Sound: Cultivating Trauma-Informed Approaches for Employee and Employer Well-being today! <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and the challenges of today&#8217;s complex world that affect our workplaces 70%\u00a0of U.S. adults have experienced at least one traumatic event. Almost 20%\u00a0of us have 4 or more of the 10 adverse childhood experiences that relate to trauma and increased risk of physical and mental health challenges. 5%\u00a0of us have Post &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trauma_psychologoical_safety_at_work","latest_post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact our Workplaces - Safe and Sound: The Book<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Safe &amp; Sound by Anita Roach guides leaders in creating trauma-informed workplaces built on a foundation of psychological safety and human-centered practices\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact our Workplaces - Safe and Sound: The Book\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Safe &amp; Sound by Anita Roach guides leaders in creating trauma-informed workplaces built on a foundation of psychological safety and human-centered practices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Safe and Sound: The Book\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-04T22:39:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-04T23:26:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Slide-1new-01.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"4000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"triaddsn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"triaddsn\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835\",\"name\":\"How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact our Workplaces - Safe and Sound: The Book\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Slide-1new-01.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-04T22:39:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-04T23:26:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f3b9d25d5970e50f4993795711064461\"},\"description\":\"Safe & Sound by Anita Roach guides leaders in creating trauma-informed workplaces built on a foundation of psychological safety and human-centered practices\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Slide-1new-01.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Slide-1new-01.png\",\"width\":4000,\"height\":2250},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/?p=835#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/safeandsoundworkplace.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why this? 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