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Core Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Training Modules (Foundations)

Content: Participants learn foundational content and strategies for understanding trauma and resilience.

Pre-requisite: None

Length: Each core training includes 6-8 hours of content which can be delivered in a sequence of shorter segments.

Languages: Request modules in English, Spanish and Chinese. 

  • 100: Overview: Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Practices for Educators

  • 100: Overview: Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Practices for Parents and Families

  • 100: Overview: Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Practices for Leaders and Supervisors

  • 100: Overview: Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Practices for Clinicians, Therapists and Social Service Providers

  • 100: Overview of Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Practices for Young Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

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Going Deeper Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Training Modules

Content: Participants are guided through a range of interactive activities to practice how to implement the content and practices learned in one or more CORE training modules.

Prerequisite: Must have attended a Core Module.

Length: Hours can be adapted based on program need but may be up to 6-8 hours in length. Content can be delivered in a sequence of shorter segments.

Languages: Request modules in English, Spanish and Chinese. We have authorized trainers in many of the modules.

  • 200:   Practicing Trauma-Responsive and Resilience-Building Strategies Learned in Module 100

  • 201:   Looking at Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building through the Lens of an Individual Child and Developing Trauma-Responsive and Individualized Support Plans for Children

  • 300:   Self-Awareness and Self-Care Strategies for Adults to Promote Self-Care

  • 301:   Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices

  • 400:   Trauma-Responsive Family Engagement in Early Childhood: Practices for Equity and Resilience

  • 500:   Trauma-Responsive Reflective Leadership and Supervision

  • 600:   Trauma-Responsive Practices: Creating and Sustaining Healing Engaged Organizations

  • 700:   Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience and Heal from Trauma through Play: A Practical Guide for Early Childhood Educators

* Most popular series to start are Modules 100, 200, 300 

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Spotlight Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Training Modules

Content: Participants learn about one key concept or strategy included in one of the CORE trainings. The following are several examples of possible Spotlight Topics. We can also create a Spotlight based on your program’s specific interests and needs.

Pre-Requisite: None

Length: 1-2 hours​

Languages: Request modules in English, Spanish and Chinese. 

  • 3 R’s of Reflective Supervision

  • 4 Steps to Grow Human(E) Beings

  • ACES: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences

  • Adult Sensory, Emotion and Body Awareness

  • Adult Triggers and Emotional Buttons

  • Adult Self-Awareness, Self-Care and Resilience (Part 1)

  • Adult Self-Awareness, Self-Care and Resilience (Part 2)

  • Attachment and Strategies that Heal

  • Be Your Own Emergency First Responder in Times of Stress

  • Being a Brain Architect vs Behavior Manager for Children

  • Books and Activities that Address Social and Emotional Awareness, Skills and Intelligence for Teens

  • Books and Activities that Promote Social and Emotional Awareness for Elementary Age Youth

  • Books and Activities that Promote Social and Emotional Awareness for Early Childhood

  • Bridging ACES Aware to Educators (Bridging the CA Surgeon General ACES Aware Initiative to Educators)

  • Breathing for Life: Learning Breathing Techniques for Adult Well-Being

  • Building a Healthy Internal Dialogue for Adults and/or Children

  • Building a Self-Regulation Toolkit

  • Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

  • Coaching Strategies to Support Trauma Responsive Care

  • Culturally Responsive Self Care Practices

  • Cultivating the "Me and the We" on the Journey of Healing and Building Resilience

  • Create Safe Spaces, Places and/or Bins for Children to Promote Regulation

  • Create Trauma Responsive Policies and Procedures

  • Creating Grounding and Safety for Adults and/or Children

  • Developing Curriculum to Teach Children about their Brain

  • Defining Trauma Responsive Care for your Program

  • Difference Between a Trauma Trigger and a Challenging Behavior

  • Embedding Mindfulness into Leadership and Supervision

  • Emotional Literacy

  • Environment Triggers that Affect Arousal States

  • Environments that Support Regulation

  • Examining Transitions to Promote Safety and Prevent Challenging Behavior

  • Family Engagement Strategies for Educators

  • Growing Human(E) Beings: A Job of Superheroes!

  • Healing the Brain from the Bottom Up

  • Health and Wellness Toolkit for Adults

  • Helping Children in Times of Stress, Transition, Loss or Change

  • Leading Organizations through a Trauma Responsive Lens

  • Learning how to Keep Children in the "Window of Tolerance"

  • Learning About the Different Parts of the Brain and How it Impacts Behavior

  • Meaning Behind Challenging Behavior

  • Mindfulness for Adults

  • Mindfulness Strategies to Use with Children to Support Regulation

  • Moving Organizations from Trauma Inducing to Trauma Responsive and Resilience Building

  • Neurobiology of a Trauma Trigger

  • Neuroplasticity and the Power to Rewire the Brain

  • Neurobiology of Stress on the Brain and Behavior

  • Objects and Activities that Calm the Sensory System

  • Out of Synch Child: Sensory Integration Strategies

  • Play to Learn and Learn to Play (Ages 0-3)

  • Play and Trauma: Supporting Children Through Play to Heal

  • Play: Somatosensory Strategies to Promote Regulation in the Classroom

  • Positive Parenting Strategies: Nurturing and Responsive Relationships

  • Positive Parenting Strategies: Predictable and Safe Environments

  • Positive Parenting Strategies: Sensory and Emotional Literacy

  • Positive Parenting Strategies: Managing Big Emotions and Self-Regulation Strategies

  • Positive Parenting Strategies: Teaching Children Problem Solving Skills

  • Positive Parenting Strategies: The Meaning Behind Challenging Behavior: What is this a Case of?

  • Preventing Challenging Behavior

  • Parenting and Strategies to Support Social-Emotional Development

  • Strategies for Breathing with Children

  • Predictable Routines

  • Predicting Burnout

  • Relationship and Strength-Based Leadership

  • Resilient Strong! Curriculum for Middle and High School Students

  • Resilience and Factors that Buffer Stress

  • Sensory Literacy

  • Storybooks for Children Who have Gone Through Stressful or Traumatic Events

  • Strategies that Calm the Sensory System

  • Strategies to Support Children’s Emotional Regulation

  • Strategies for Building Resilience: Engaging Executive Functioning Skills and Problem-Solving Steps

  • Strategies for Building Resilience: Children with Sensory Processing Challenges

  • Strategies for Building Resilience: Strengthening Self-Regulation and Managing Big Emotions

  • Strategies for Building Resilience: Teaching Sensory and Emotional Literacy

  • Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Toxic or Traumatic Stress

  • Strategies for Teaching Children about their Brain and Cultivating Self-Awareness 

  • The Impact of Toxic and Traumatic Stress on the Brain, Body and Behavior

  • The Power of Mirror Neurons

  • The Science of Building a New Habit

  • TIPS for Supporting Children in Times of Uncertainty and Stress

  • Top 5 Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Educators

  • Top 5 Trauma-Responsive Strategies for Supervisors/Leaders

  • Adult Temperament: Cultivating Self-Awareness

  • Child Temperament: Cultivating Self-Awareness

  • Trauma-Responsive Supervision

  • Trauma Responsive and Healing Engaged Leaders, Systems and Organizations

  • Using Storybooks to Support Children who Have Gone through Stressful or Traumatic Experiences

  • Using Present Moment Attunement and Co-Regulation to Support Children

  • Using the Trigger Stop APP to Promote Sensory and Emotional Literacy

  • Visual Schedules that Promote Regulation

  • What does a Trauma Responsive School Look Like?

  • What Does It Mean to Give Every Child a Voice?

  • What Strategies to use When a Child is in their Reptile, Mammal and/or CEO Brain

  • Zones of Self-Awareness and Being Your Own Emergency First Responder

 

Social-Emotional and Resilience Building Training Modules

Early Childhood

Elementary School

Middle and High School

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