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ETSU’s Strong BRAIN Institute outlines Better Workplaces Tennessee recognition program
Summary
Dr. Wally Dixon described Better Workplaces Tennessee—a trauma‑ and resilience‑informed workplace recognition program funded by the Tennessee Department of Health—and Appalachian Promise Alliance shared an 8‑month silver recognition case study.
Dr. Wally Dixon, founding director of the Strong BRAIN Institute at East Tennessee State University, told meeting attendees that Better Workplaces Tennessee is a recognition program funded by the Tennessee Department of Health, Office of Injury Prevention, designed to help organizations embed trauma‑informed practices.
“Everyone's on a journey to become trauma informed,” Dixon said, adding that “nobody's trauma informed” yet and that the program treats trauma‑informed work as an ongoing process rather than a single training. He said the program adapts the University at Buffalo School of Social Work’s organizational change…
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