Education and Training

As an award-winning charity specialising in the delivery of holistic, trauma-informed services and applying more than 40 years of service delivery experience, The Nelson Trust provides a range of CPD accredited training to third sector, statutory, healthcare, and commissioning professionals.

In 2025 we delivered external training sessions to over 400 professionals. We can deliver training directly to your organisation, or from our Hub Academy in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

One Day Training Workshops

● Trauma informed care, support structures (policy and procedures) and methodology.
● Learning outcomes: understand the framework of trauma informed theory and procedures, have a good understanding of how to implement trauma informed working into service delivery.

● Exploration of stress and stress management, identifying risk factors for stress, self-care and building resilience, grounding trauma and stress.
● Learning outcomes: understanding how to identify and manage trauma and stress responses for staff working with individuals with multiple and complex needs.

● Understanding the potential motivating factors of active substance misusers, short term interventions and facilitating change, development of recovery capital.
● Learning outcomes: an understanding of what creates the landscape for substance misuse, what facilitates change and toolkit for engagement.

● The Whole System: An overview of legislation and addressing the stigma of women who sell sex.
● The Whole Situation: Presenting issues and how to provide dynamic support .
● The Whole Self: Exploring the deconstruction of sex worker identity, impact of trauma and stigma, and the skill of engagement.
● Learning outcomes: How to create a whole system approach to supporting women to exit from street based prostitution.

● A bespoke Trauma Informed training package created in conjunction with your organisation with your organisation’s training needs, trauma informed communication, trauma informed interventions.
● Learning outcomes: A toolkit for embedded trauma informed interventions and methods into day to day working practice and interventions.

● Understanding the world of ACEs, understanding disclosure, barriers and facilitators of disclosure.
● Learning outcomes: Understanding interest in routine enquiry, knowing how and when to ask about ACE’s and how to support individuals through disclosure processes.

● What the trauma informed approach is and why it is needed, understanding your own influences as a manager, senior staff member or CEO in your workforce, influence on leadership and company culture, impact of a traumatised workforce, implementing a trauma informed approach.

  • The different types of residential support
  • The who, what and why of rehab
  • How funding works
  • Overview of our gold-standard approach to rehabilitation and long-term recovery

Open to all professionals, referrers, and providers from both statutory and voluntary sectors who are looking to deepen their understanding of how to support individuals in recovery.

Book a course

To find out more, book onto the next course or discuss a bespoke training package for your organisation then please contact:

Polly-Emily Taylor
Training Coordinator

T: 01453 889 736 or 07880 382 720
E: trainingenquiries@nelsontrust.com

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