Jordan Baker

Use this trauma-informed care cheat sheet to build a safer, more effective, and trauma-informed organization.

Social isolation and is all too common occurrence for those living with a disability. Learn how you as a healthcare provider can help.

The 4 Rs of trauma-informed care can be a great guide to creating TIC-friendly environments and systems of care. Read one to learn more!

Learning how to practice disability inclusion in the workplace will help your organization make a greater impact. Here’s how!

Learn how to use the VA’s guidelines for improving DEI as it pertains to Veterans and improve the services you offer to this population.

Learn how to use person-centered planning (PCP) address the unique preferences, choices, and needs of your clients.

To better understand Veterans’ health challenges and how to help, let’s delve into the factors that contribute to Veteran health disparities.

Knowing how to elicit change talk in motivational interviewing can help your clients achieve great results. Learn how it works!

Learn how to use the elicit-provide-elicit framework of motivational interviewing to help your clients achieve meaningful change.

Active-duty service members and Veterans can come home with a variety of military injuries, so knowing how to treat them is key.

Learn how trauma-informed leadership can help you create a better, more psychologically safe work environment.

A high quality of life is very possible for adults living with autism. Here’s how your organization can help.

To provide proper care for Veterans and active-duty service members, let’s review substance use treatment programs for these populations.

Learn how to create a customized employment program to help your clients find meaningful and stable job opportunities.

Learn how to administer PTSD screening and assessment for veterans can save lives. Here’s where to get started.

Collective trauma occurs when a group of people lives through an event that shatters their sense of safety. Here’s how your organization can help.

For those that work with military members, establishing a veterans suicide prevention program can improve the lives of those they serve.

OARS skills are a key part of successful Motivational Interviewing. Learn more about these skills and how to apply them.

Let’s explore how you and your organization can apply the Stages of Change model to your addiction treatment programs.

Learn how to incorporate the Stages of Change model into your organization’s motivational interviewing process.

Let’s explore the intersection of rehabilitation and mental health and keys to providing trauma-informed care for juvenile offenders.

To help you provide better services to veterans, we’ll review some of the most prevalent mental health challenges veterans face.

By understanding why a learning culture is important to your organization, you can help boost your staff and organization to new heights.  

Learn what community inclusion is, the most common barriers to it, and how your organization can better help clients with IDD.

The Stages of Change Model is a framework designed to explain and guide individuals through the process of change. Here’s how it works.

To help you better serve your clients on their journey to independence, here’s a list of best practices on being an ally for self-advocacy.

For individuals with autism, comorbidity is more prevalent than you may think. Learn how to treat these conditions to provide better care.

Care coordination can help improve care and lower costs as more healthcare organizations move towards value-based payment models. Here’s how.

To overcome the U.S. mental health crisis and decrease the yearly rates of suicide, we must address suicide stigma.

Building organizational resilience is a must for modern healthcare organizations. Here’s how you and your staff can get started.

Employee assessments are a great tool for decreasing turnover, as they can help you hire better employees and retain your best employees.

Showing appreciation for your DSPs can go a long way in boosting employee morale and retention. Here are are few ideas to show gratitude.

Health care professionals burn out – physicians, clinicians and direct care staff alike. Read up on some tips for managing burnout.

Learn the steps your organization can take to improve the working life of its staff and combat the IDD workforce crisis.

National DSP Recognition Week is around the corner. Know what it means. Show recognition where it’s due, and start planning your events now.

FTCA coverage and protection is important for health centers by allowing them to focus time and money on the patient population they serve.

Did you know the signs of dehydration can mirror the symptoms of major mental and physical health illnesses? Learn how to help your community stay hydrated.

Your top questions on trauma-informed care best practices answered by our answered by our panel of experts at National Council.

Inequality in mental health care access is not going away soon. To help, World Mental Health Day focuses on increasing access to care.

To provider proper care to clients with IDD, proper communication techniques are essential. Let’s review some tips for proper communication.

By continuing to observe successful models of integrating care management, organizations can provide community-specific integrate care.

Learn how to use assessments for hiring to improve your organization’s onboarding process and increase provider retention.

Turnover among direct support professionals that provide services to individuals with IDD can be a big problem. Here are five tips to help you retain key members of staff.

CBT is one method that can help kids and teens in your community in need of mental health care get the attention they deserve.

Burnout and turnover rates in social work, including children’s service providers, are a constant worry. Learn how to take action.

Human services professionals need to understand current research on autism and sexuality in order to fully support their clients.

Learn what your human services organization can do to help improve the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth in your community.

Creating effective engagement programs for employees can have positive effects on human services organizations’ retention, culture, and more.

The job of a direct support professional (DSP) can be emotionally draining. Try these effective workplace mental health strategies to help.

Learn how your organization can better care for those experiencing birth trauma through the use of the trauma-informed model of care.

For individuals with autism, securing and maintaining employment can be difficult. Learn how your ABA agency can help.

Learn how direct support professionals like to receive recognition, what makes a good supervisor, and more in our DSP Survey Report.

Healthcare organizations have a responsibility to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion both for their employees and the patients they serve. This article offers six strategies to help.

To help your organization become trauma-informed, we’ve put together this resource that answers common questions about using TIC practices.

Learn how to promote occupational wellness for DSPs, a profession where burnout is prevalent, to retain and care for your staff.

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is an idea that pushes all members of your organization to ask questions like, how are we doing?

Learn more about what the Fatal Five is, how to know if your client is affected by these conditions, and what to do next.

Explore how value-based contracts work, how behavioral health providers can use them, and the challenges they can present to organizations.

Constipation is never fun, but if DSPs know the signs and symptoms of constipation and the other Fatal Five it doesn’t have to be deadly.

As an IDD professional, it’s important to know how to prevent the Fatal Five in your clients. In this post, we cover how to prevent sepsis.

Recognizing the risk factors and signs of dehydration, and the other Fatal Five, can help DSPs keep clients safe and healthy.

Learning the signs and symptoms of seizures, one of the Fatal Five, can help DSPs and other IDD staff keep their clients safe.

People with IDD have a higher risk of problems swallowing and aspiration (one of the Fatal Five). Find out why and what to do about it now.

Getting the most out of ABA parent training can be difficult. Follow these best practices to make it a little easier.

By using DEI and psychological safety principles, you can create an environment that allows your organization to be at its best. Learn how.

Questions on how to implement trauma-informed care at your organization are natural. Here is how you can answer them.

The Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022 could help decrease the incidence of police violence. Here’s how.

Trauma-informed care can prove helpful for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have experienced abuse.

This interview with an expert discusses why autism social skills training is so important for developing empathy.

A death by suicide can communities in a multitude of ways. Make sure your agency has effective postvention strategies in place.

Learn how to help clients create safety plans to help them deal with mental health crises, abusive relationships, or other forms of trauma.

Crisis response training is critical to your organization’s ability to provide quality care in all situations. Learn how to implement it.

Learn what disaster behavioral health is, why it’s important, and how to formulate a disaster behavioral health response plan.

Parental involvement in their child’s autism educational plan is essential for all children to experience success.

To help your staff cope with feelings of compassion fatigue and burnout, consider adoption a trauma-informed care approach to staff wellness.

Every human service worker will face challenges during their career. Let’s review some of these challenges and how to overcome them.

Gain insight into the state of crisis management training with data collected from over 8,000 industry professionals by Relias experts.

To properly train your staff, you need to understand adult learning styles and how to apply this to your training programs.

Give your direct support professionals (DSPs) the training they need to provide clients with crisis prevention and intervention services.

Learn how to build a culture of compliance by using the full suite of functionalities that your learning management platform provides.

Women in policing set the standard for police officers everywhere. This Law Enforcement Appreciation Month, celebrate their accomplishments.

With the implementation of 988, behavioral health organizations have a chance to make a wider impact on crisis in their community.

By using a learning management platform, you can improve the way your organization learns and, thus, the quality of care it provides.

The need for crisis prevention and intervention, as well as how organizations respond to crises, has dramatically changed due to COVID-19.

Improving the way your organization offers leadership development in healthcare can help you to stay competitive and retain top talent.

Times are changing, and so is training in healthcare. Follow seven simple rules to create an effective training process in your organization.

Creating a culture of learning in a human services organization can be tricky. Here’s what one expert has done to enable his staff to learn.

Upskilling and reskilling programs can help your organization create a continuous learning culture. Here’s how to get started.

Give your Direct Support Professionals the tools they need to provide the best quality of support to people with disabilities.

By creating an effective direct support professional career path, organizations can help their DSPs grow and increase retention.

As human services organizations embrace digital transformation, they create innovations in behavioral healthcare and become more resilient.

While many DSPs find their jobs rewarding, they face a variety of challenges, including high turnover, low wages, and limited access to training.

Social determinants of health play a very large role in substance use disorders and depression. These determinants feed off one another and produce a downward spiral effect that increase the risk of suicide.

Front-line correctional staff often carry the heaviest burden to identify, monitor and respond to suicidal behaviors in correctional facilities.

Evidence has shown that suicide risk screening in primary care is effective, yet there is still a serious need to improve the frequency with which they’re conducted.

Moral injury in law enforcement is an increasingly recognized problem. Learn how to help your officers cope with the stress of moral injury.

Creating checklists and sharing them with staff can lead to better supervision, better job performance and better employee morale.

It doesn’t matter what level you are at professionally or how good you are at your job. Being monitored by your supervisor is stressful.

Learn how direct support professionals like to receive recognition, what makes a good supervisor, and more in our DSP Survey Report.

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is an idea that pushes all members of your organization to ask questions like, how are we doing?

For behavioral health organization executives to work effectively with a payer-provider model, consider adopting these five tips.