TiD Academy
Welcome to the
Trauma-informed Design (TiD) Academy!
We work hard to cultivate rewarding professional development and credentialing opportunities for TiD practitioners. All our offerings are based on these principles and the evolving science that informs this area of practice.
Professional Development Offerings
We offer various levels of professional development to architects, designers, and service providers in Trauma-informed Design and trauma-informed care. These trainings are customized to your needs and include information to help you bring a trauma-informed lens to all your design needs. Whether your are a firm seeking to provide TiD services, a small organization looking for a new approach to planned renovations, a community developer, or a national organization we've got you covered! Based on your needs, these services vary in length and content.
Coming Fall 2025:
TiD Credentialing
TiD Credentialing provides you the skills to:
Create spaces that that promote safety, resilience, and healing
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Protect against unintentional harm in your practice
And connects you with others doing this work!
We will be offering the only TiD credentialing path!
Trauma-informed Design is a practice. As with all practices, TiD requires practitioners to understand the concepts and theories relating to it, and to apply them to projects with fidelity.
The practice of TiD is also hard. Practitioners enter this line of work because they want to make a positive difference in the lives of others. In doing so, they open themselves up to the stories of people who have experienced all sorts of hurt, violence, and harm. It is necessary to do this work well—but it also takes a toll. Credentialling offers the opportunity to build a community of support with other practitioners who understand.
Now Developing:
Courses in Every Practice Area of TiD
We will offer a wide variety of courses in TiD, ensuring content for practitioners of every skill level and area of practice. Whether you want to specialize in a particular type of design or human condition or are looking to develop a more generalized expertise, we are sure to have something that suits your needs. Topic areas include:
TiD Credentialing
TiD Research
Healthcare and Behavioral Health Design
Educational Design
Designing for Specific Human Conditions
Spheres of TiD
Quotes from Previous Participants
I've been waiting for this for a while! I truly loved this course and feel it has helped me to grow tremendously.
I really enjoy the discussions within our class, hearing other perspectives and some of their experiences with these different tools and resources. This class is filled with information about TiD, some that makes more sense now that I am learning it more formally, and a lot that is new and very eye-opening to me.
The most valuable things I have learned are the practical applications of trauma-informed design, how to go through a researched design process, and how bodily trauma responses can be mitigated by the built environment.