Trauma-Informed Reporting Training with the Dart Center

Join the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for a 90-minute virtual training on best practices in trauma-informed reporting.

The training will cover effective reporting approaches to  sensitive topics; ethics concerns when reporting on violence, trauma and tragedy; interviewing techniques when working with victims, survivors and vulnerable people; and balancing compassion with the rigors of journalism.

Dr. Kate Porterfield is a consulting clinical psychologist at the Bellevue Hospital Program for Survivors of Torture in New York City.  Dr. Porterfield has provided clinical care and evaluation of adults, adolescents and children who have experienced war and refugee trauma and torture for over 25 years.  She regularly consults on issues pertaining to trauma with journalists and human rights organizations and in legal cases in the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions, US courts, and the International Criminal Court. Dr. Porterfield is a founding staff member of the Journalist Trauma Support Network, an initiative at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Dr. Porterfield teaches and works with organizations around issues of wellbeing, stress management and trauma-informed best practices.

Space for this program is limited to 30 participants and on a first-come, first-served basis. The program will be overbooked to compensate for no-shows.

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PLEASE NOTE: We are able to present this event for free due to a generous grant from the New York Consortium for Worker Education (CWE).

As part of this grant, the WGAE needs to provide the CWE with information on who attends the events they fund. This information is necessary for the CWE to continue to receive their state funding – and, in turn, for them to continue to provide support for programs like the one you are attending. Completion of the registration form is required to attend this event.