Description

Create a more supportive and resilient workplace with practical, trauma-informed strategies that empower your team and strengthen your business. Join us for an insightful session with tangible ideas you can implement right away.

Key Workshop Outcomes

• Understanding of trauma and how it affects self-regulation capacity in people
• Understanding how to create trauma-informed internal structures of support (communications, Human Resources, team collaboration)
• Understanding how to create external trauma-informed customer service policies and procedures (Marketing & Communications, Public Relations)

Speaker: Tom Littlewood (M.A. Psych) - Program Director, Dan's Legacy

Tom Littlewood, M.A. Psych, is a therapist who has been working with at-risk youth for over 45 years. Tom graduated from Simon Fraser University with B.A. in Psychology in 1985. Over the next six years he completed his Masters in Psychology as well as two years of specialized counselling programs in various universities in Canada and the USA. He developed one of the first diversion programs for at-risk youth while working as a police counsellor and established the original affinity card campaign while being the founding Executive Director for the Selkirk College Foundation. Tom was the founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary Foundation that for fifteen years provided work and life skills programs, counselling and the first jobs for thousands of at-risk youth in Metro Vancouver. During his last five years with the Sanctuary Foundation he worked with the Cuban Ministry of Education setting up an apprenticeship program in bike mechanics for at-risk Cuban youth. Tom has also worked as a community counsellor for a local First Nation community and as a family support worker and counsellor for a local alternative high school. For the last fifteen years he has managed and volunteered at a local surplus food cooperative.

About Dan’s Legacy Foundation

Dan’s Legacy provides trauma-informed and culturally sensitive counselling, outreach and job-skills training programs to youth at risk in Metro Vancouver. Dan’s Legacy goes to the youth wherever they are, aims to maintain a minimal wait list (one month) and offers all its programs at no cost. In 2025 Dan’s Legacy worked with over 800 youth, helping them to plan a future for themselves, and begin working towards their educational, employment and recovery goals.