Trainings
Trainings include:
- Pre-test
- Post-test and feedback
- Focus groups with staff to identify training needs
- Implementation plans
- Follow-up sessions
- Resource handouts
Trauma-Informed Interviewing
Trauma-Informed Interviewing
When working with immigrant families
Trauma-informed interviewing is essential for lawyers and law students working with immigrants seeking relief in legal cases. This workshop provides an overview of trauma-informed interviewing and a chance to practice using important techniques and resources.
Training Objectives:
Audiences: lawyers, law students, professionals
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
Training Objectives:
- Define trauma, trauma responses, and secondary/vicarious trauma;
- Discuss the link between trauma and migration;
- Review trauma-informed interviewing with considerations for both in-person and virtual settings; and
- Secondary trauma & burnout prevention.
Audiences: lawyers, law students, professionals
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
Working with Mixed-Status Families
Mixed-Status Families
Providing culturally responsive & trauma-informed services
This workshop is for all social service providers, lawyers and educators who work with the undocumented community. We discuss trauma, migration, contemporary immigration policies, and available resources to help you provide comprehensive, trauma-informed and culturally responsive services to your clients.
Training Objectives:
Audiences: professionals, lawyers, and educators
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
Training Objectives:
- Provide an overview of trauma and its impact on mixed status families;
- Define various immigration statuses, legal remedies, and opportunities to access social services;
- Describe unique parenting stressors and challenges; and
- Discuss interventions and tools to support families in the face of potential separation.
Audiences: professionals, lawyers, and educators
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
How this Work Affects Us
How this Work Affects Us
Secondary trauma, grief, and healing
Training Objectives:
Audience: legal, clinical professionals, volunteers
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
- Learn the basics of trauma, secondary trauma, and burnout, including interpersonal, organizational, and systemic factors;
- Apply this knowledge to the unique settings of your work;
- Better understand the process of grief, particularly during a global pandemic; and
- Discuss avenues for healing at the individual, organizational, and community levels.
Audience: legal, clinical professionals, volunteers
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
Trauma 101
Trauma 101
Trauma training for legal staff
Learning Objectives:
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
- Define common elements of, cause of, and responses to trauma;
- Discuss trauma-informed care and what you can do;
- Review trauma-informed interviewing;
- Discuss your experiences with clients; and
- Discuss secondary trauma and self-care
Timeframe: 1-2 Hours
Mental Health Assessments for Immigration Cases
For non-profit and private practice therapists
6 CEUs will be provided.*
This live interactive training designed to equip licensed mental health professionals with the skills and tools to conduct immigration evaluations independently in private practice or in partnership with nonprofits. Led by an experienced clinician with over a decade in immigrant mental health, this training offers comprehensive guidance on writing trauma-informed evaluations that support immigration cases. You'll gain access to practical resources, including evaluation templates, tools for your practice, and ongoing consultation support.
Girasol’s training is rooted in a mission to expand access to high-quality, trauma-informed care to low-income immigrants. Completing this training will fully prepare you to offer immigration evaluations independently as part of your private practice.
Objectives:
Registration Information: Participants are encouraged to register early as space is limited.
Presenter: Monica Romo, LCSW-S
*This workshop has been approved for continuing education credit for Social Workers, LPCs and LMFTs by the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
6 CEUs will be provided.*
This live interactive training designed to equip licensed mental health professionals with the skills and tools to conduct immigration evaluations independently in private practice or in partnership with nonprofits. Led by an experienced clinician with over a decade in immigrant mental health, this training offers comprehensive guidance on writing trauma-informed evaluations that support immigration cases. You'll gain access to practical resources, including evaluation templates, tools for your practice, and ongoing consultation support.
Girasol’s training is rooted in a mission to expand access to high-quality, trauma-informed care to low-income immigrants. Completing this training will fully prepare you to offer immigration evaluations independently as part of your private practice.
Objectives:
- Define various types of immigration relief and types of evaluations;
- Discuss the ethical considerations of conducting immigration evaluations;
- Review assessment and interviewing skills; and
- Learn the process of writing evaluation reports.
Registration Information: Participants are encouraged to register early as space is limited.
Presenter: Monica Romo, LCSW-S
*This workshop has been approved for continuing education credit for Social Workers, LPCs and LMFTs by the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Customized Trainings and Topics
Customized Trainings and Topics
Based on the needs of your agency, we can develop customized trainings for legal and social service providers, volunteers, students, and other interested parties. We can adapt trainings to last 1 hour to an entire day. We are able to provide trainings online or in person.
Consultation
Processing Groups
Processing groups provide a unique opportunity to share multiple perspectives and receive support, encouragement, and feedback.
Our processing groups allow professionals working with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to process experiences of working directly with clients and of being exposed to trauma by providing a safe space to discuss experiences, receive mutual support, gain skills to navigate stressors, and prevent burnout.
Group topics can include trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, grief, challenges of facing oppression and crises in the broader world while trying to do immigration work, boundaries, and self-care.
We can facilitate in-person and virtual processing groups session for 2 to 10 individuals. Groups can be an ongoing series or a limited series of 2-8 group meetings depending on your organization’s needs.
Our processing groups allow professionals working with immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to process experiences of working directly with clients and of being exposed to trauma by providing a safe space to discuss experiences, receive mutual support, gain skills to navigate stressors, and prevent burnout.
Group topics can include trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, grief, challenges of facing oppression and crises in the broader world while trying to do immigration work, boundaries, and self-care.
We can facilitate in-person and virtual processing groups session for 2 to 10 individuals. Groups can be an ongoing series or a limited series of 2-8 group meetings depending on your organization’s needs.
Thank you to our Trainings & Consulting partners and funders!
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