Organizational trauma-informed consultation equips institutions to foster healing and resilience for everyone in a system. Dr. Swaroop engages all levels of an organization to ensure that mission, culture, and practice are aligned to eliminate deleterious effects of trauma and support resilience.
This work integrates cutting edge research with strength based participatory action models to enact capacity-building aligned with remembrance, equity, and reconnection. Dr. Swaroop is adept at developing trauma-informed policies and procedures to deliver trauma-informed curriculum and program delivery. Organizations grow from her capacity to deliver culturally relevant and population-specific services to meet the unique needs of organizational clients.
For organizations seeking trauma and resilience consulting, Dr. Swaroop offers:
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Assessment of Organizational Climate to evaluate the overall climate of the organization, including factors such as communication patterns, leadership styles, and levels of trust and psychological safety. This assessment can help identify areas where trauma may be impacting the organization and inform targeted interventions.
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Organizational Crisis Response Planning to address traumatic events or emergencies. Dr. Swaroop works with institutions to develop and finetune protocols for providing immediate support to affected employees, communicating with stakeholders, and managing the aftermath of traumatic incidents, direct or vicarious in nature.
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Trauma-Informed Training and Workshops, including longer-term programming to educate staff and leaders about trauma, its effects, and how to recognize and respond to trauma-related symptoms in the workplace. Dr. Swaroop has found this training can help create a more understanding and supportive environment for staff and community members who have experienced trauma.
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Resilience Building Programming and initiatives to help organizations and their stakeholders to develop coping skills and strategies for managing stress and trauma. Often, Dr. Swaroop draws from mindfulness training, stress management workshops, or resilience coaching.
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Trauma-Informed Leadership Development to help leaders better understand and respond to the needs of staff who have experienced trauma. Dr. Swaroop’s leadership development programming emphasizes trauma-informed leadership principles, such as empathy, active listening, and the importance of creating a safe and supportive work environment.
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Network building to establish or enhance Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) to provide confidential counseling and support services to employees who have experienced trauma. This can include access to mental health professionals, support groups, and referrals to community resources.
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Creating Supportive Spaces to create physical and psychological spaces within an organization that are supportive and conducive to healing for staff who have experienced trauma. This may involve designating quiet areas, implementing wellness programs, or providing resources for coping with stress and trauma.
Work Samples
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Anti-human Trafficking Program Management
Community Partner: Project REACH-
Facilitated trauma-informed training, professional consultation, and technical assistance to FBI/law enforcement, Offices of U.S. Attorneys/Department of Justice, court service professionals, legal providers, emergency medical staff, and social service providers.
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Conducted program evaluation with demographic and clinical data from clients served examining victims' polyvictimization exposures and posttraumatic stress reactions and advocating for further development of trauma-informed services for trafficking survivors throughout the U.S.
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Coordinated a team of consultants to meet national demands for direct and indirect service provision focused on identifying the psychological impact of human trafficking through trauma-informed evaluation, brief intervention, and local capacity building to provide ongoing care.
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2013 Boston Marathon Bombings, Community Disaster Response
Community Partner: Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts Resiliency Program-
​Supported community-level disaster response via crisis management, resiliency training, and coaching to victims of the 2012 Boston Marathon Bombing on-site during the federal trial at the Moakley U.S. Courthouse and across auxiliary treatment sites.
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Coordinated referral services connecting survivors of the 2012 Boston Marathon Bombing to a broad community treatment network in partnership with state-level resourcing.
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Trauma Initiatives for Survivors of Political Torture
Community Partner: Marjorie Kovler Center for Survivors of Torture-
​Provided direct services to asylum-seeking survivors of political torture while coordinating teams across psychiatric, medical, legal, and case management services to support gold standard care.
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2010 Pakistan Floods, Disaster Response
Community Partner: Sungi Development Foundation, Pakistan-
​Developed, implemented, and evaluated trauma-informed disaster management programming grounded in decolonizing and participatory action research for women living in internal displacement camps in northwest Pakistan following war related conflict or flooding.
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Trauma Initiatives for Families of Fallen Service Members
Community Partner: National Child Traumatic Stress Network-
​Provided needs assessment, designed and executed supportive programming, developed resource and referral networks, and conducted program evaluation to respond to developing needs of families of fallen service members.
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Post-Rwandan Genocide, Mental Health Capacity-building
Community Partner: Rwanda Counseling Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Program-
​Presented research on gender-based violence and culturally-specific models of healing for Rwandan populations to assist in developing Rwanda’s counseling infrastructure. Provided ongoing consultation to inform global training initiatives, including train-the-trainer curriculum that trains local stakeholders to recognize, assess, and effectively intervene with children and adults who experience, or are exposed to, traumatic life events.
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Refugee Services
Community Partner, Refugee One-
​Provided direct services targeting empowerment, resilience, and wellness via community-building initiatives.
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