Building Resilient Organizations: Lessons in Trauma Informed Change and Organizational Resilience
If we want to create real change, we have to zoom way out to look at the issues, solutions, and goals from a systems perspective. We also...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Aug 10
- 2 min
Reflections on the 2023 NCSEA Leadership Symposium
The annual NCSEA Leadership Symposium provides a space for the child support community to share and celebrate the application of best...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Jul 11
- 3 min
Chefalo Consulting, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Partnership Press Release
We are proud to announce another successful project. Our work with ODRC has already begun to transform lives for Ohio state employees and...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Apr 25
- 5 min
Is Your Job Harming Your Mental Health?
We need to work to live, but is work negatively impacting our well-being? For most of us, work allows us to meet some of our basic needs:...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Apr 18
- 4 min
5 Powerful Trauma-Informed Questions to Fuel Self-Exploration
There are tons of trauma-informed tools out there to help you integrate trauma-informed practices into your everyday life, and today...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Universal Precautions in Practice: 11 Tips for Trauma-Informed Leaders
Universal precaution is a useful trauma-informed tool that helps us live our values and create safety at work.
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Mar 21
- 3 min
What is Universal Precaution?
Universal precaution is a trauma-informed practice that helps us live the trauma-informed value of safety. When we use universal...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Mar 7
- 6 min
Trauma-Informed Perspectives on Feminism
March is Women’s History Month, and this month we celebrate all women. For Women’s History Month, let’s take some time to reflect on and...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Jan 17
- 3 min
What is a Collective Disturbance?
Most of the time when we talk about trauma, our minds go to individual trauma: the trauma that we or someone we know has personally...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Jan 6
- 5 min
December 2022 Trauma-Informed Newsletter
Download this newsletter as a printable PDF: Monthly Reflections For many, December is a month full of festive holiday activities and...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Jan 4
- 5 min
11 Trauma-Informed Boundary Phrases to Use at Work
Trauma-informed leaders know that healthy boundaries are essential for healthy relationships—in and out of work. But setting and...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Dec 13, 2022
- 6 min
9 Reasons Why Your Work Team Shouldn’t Be a Family
We’ve all heard it: “our team is a family.” Organizations across every industry use this language. From non-profits to corporate teams,...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
November 2022 Trauma-Informed Newsletter
Download this newsletter as a printable PDF: Monthly Reflections November is over, and there is a lot to be grateful for. There were also...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Nov 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Intersection of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Trauma-Informed Care (TIC)
Trauma-informed care is like an umbrella that encompasses the social determinants of health, social-emotional learning, and actionable...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Nov 1, 2022
- 5 min
The Complete Guide to Trauma-Informed Values
In the trauma-informed care space, we often reference trauma-informed values. While we can refer to values within the TIC space broadly,...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 26, 2022
- 5 min
7 Types of Organizational Structures
Organizational restructuring is often on the table when companies decide they need transformational change. And when organizations take...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 11, 2022
- 6 min
10 Things You Didn’t Know Were Trauma Responses
Recognizing trauma responses is an important skill for trauma-informed leaders to learn—and knowing these common trauma responses is a...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Oct 4, 2022
- 6 min
9 Things That Happen When Employees Feel Safe at Work
If you asked me what the single most important aspect of trauma-informed implementation is, I’d say it’s much more complex than that. But...
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Sep 20, 2022
- 8 min
How to Apologize: Advice from a Trauma-Informed Expert
If you’re familiar with the trauma-informed space, you know that we often talk about the experience of feeling seen, heard, and valued....
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Shenandoah Chefalo
- Sep 13, 2022
- 5 min
8 Simple Ways to Create Safety at Work
Establishing safety at work is one of the most important aspects of creating a trauma-informed workplace, but creating safety is easier...
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