7th National CTIP Conference Theme

The Centre for Trauma Informed Practices is pleased to announce the theme for the 7th National CTIP Conference: The Real Risk Enhancers!

Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA) and the Traumatic Event Systems (TES) Model are systems-oriented processes that specialize in the dynamics of violence and trauma. Borrowing from Bowenian family therapy, there is an assessment and intervention process called “Content versus Process”.  Content refers to the topics people discuss or what they focus on (or believe to be the cause of the problem), while process refers to the underlying emotional patterns and ways of interacting within a human system such as: triangulation, emotional fusion, or the family projection process that may be the real issues for contributing to and sustaining risk.

Using the content identified during Stage One VTRA data-collection is essential for “immediate risk reducing interventions” while Stage Two VTRA is the expansion of data-collection with a focus on the underlying process that got the “Individual of Concern” (IOC) to the current level of sustained risk/dangerousness in the first place. VTRA is meant to identify how structural and emotional dynamics at, home, school, workplace, peer groups, online, etc., along with mental health and other clinical issues can prolong risk.

This conference will go behind the mask to identify both the consistent and evolving risk enhancers that when understood have contributed to truly “trauma-informed and risk reducing interventions”.

"The better the data the better the assessment,

and the better the assessment,

the better the intervention."

- J. Kevin Cameron

Keynote Themes:

• Conducting VTRA’s with Neurodivergent Students (IOCs).
• Introducing the CTIP Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Timeline Assessment Tool.
• Matching Actual Resources to Risk.
• Substance Misuse and Addiction as Content versus Substance Misuse and Addiction as Process.
• Indigenous Ways of Healing.
• VTRA Interviewing as an Intervention: How One Well Crafted Question Can Change the Whole Course of an Interview.
• A National Perspective on Mental Health and Advocacy and What VTRA Committees Can Do.
• VTRA and TES Through a Black Lens.
• The Research Behind Effective Community Collaboration for VTRA, TES and Suicide Prevention.
• Research to Practice from Canada’s First Multi-Agency Community VTRA Coordinator.
• High Level VTRA and TES Collaboration: More Than Just Getting Along.
• VTRA and Countering Violent Extremism.
• How Even the Most Emotionally Connected Kids Can Lose Themselves in Technology and How to Get Them Back.