Community Training Courses
The Child Welfare Training Collaborative offers community training courses to organizations. These courses provide an opportunity to bring together community partners who serve families to discuss complex trauma, its impact on the brain, and how to build resilience.
You may schedule the training for your staff, but we ask that you consider your community partners and include them in the session. This is a great way to make connections and begin collaboration.
Training Courses
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
This course provides foundational knowledge about child trauma and child traumatic stress. Three types of child trauma are defined. The course focuses on the impact of complex trauma on behavior and development and helps participants identify strategies for working with children who have experienced trauma.
Topics Covered
Definitions and types of trauma
- Overview of the impact of trauma on the brain
- How trauma affects children, including children’s responses to trauma
- Strategies to support psychological safety and enhance child well-being and resilienc
- Enhancing Child Well-Being and Resilience
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
This course provides participants with foundational knowledge about how adversity and trauma can impact brain development. The course introduces brain architecture and early brain development in children and focuses on the impact of adverse experiences and child trauma on the brain.
Topics Covered
- Adversity & Trauma and the Impact on Brain Development
- Brain Systems
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Brain Development
- Resilience and Brain Development
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
This course focuses on resilience as a primary strategy for combating the effects of trauma. Participants will examine the characteristics of resilience and learn specific strategies for building resilience in children and youth.
Topics Covered
The concept of resilience including key characteristics, myths, and facts
The relationship between resilience and brain plasticity
Trauma-informed strategies for building resilience in children and youth
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
This course is designed to educate various helping professionals on Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and its impact. Participants will learn how to assess STS symptoms in themselves and others, explore factors that help to protect professionals from the negative effects of STS, and discover strategies to use these protective factors to manage STS. Participants will also assess their own personal and professional self-care and develop STS management plans.
Topics Covered
At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
- Explain the potential negative impact of STS on their personal and professional lives, their organization, and the children and families they serve
- Distinguish between Secondary Traumatic Stress and other stress-related conditions
- Identify risk factors and symptoms of STS
- Identify strategies to manage STS
- Develop an individual plan to manage STS
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
This course lays a foundation for exploring biases and stereotypes and the importance of moving beyond them when working with clients and colleagues. Through dialogue and activity participants will analyze their own perceptions and how they can work better with others.
Topics
- Recognizing and valuing diversity
- Personal biases and their impact on perceptions
- Creating environments that value diversity
- Applying knowledge about diversity to your work
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
Participants will explore the concept of psychological safety as a pathway to building resilience in children. Participants examine their role in building a culture of psychological safety for the children and families they serve. Additional emphasis is placed on creating psychological safety in the context of traumatic experiences.
Topics
• The concept of “psychological safety” and how it impacts children’s development and well-being
• The relationship between psychological safety and resilience
• The four stages of psychological safety and factors associated with each
• Strategies for creating psychological safety in the home and organizations
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
This training focuses on the use of empathy and a trauma-informed perspective to support individuals who have a history of or are in the midst of, traumatic experiences. The course is designed to increase professionals’ ability to adjust their practices and approaches to better meet the needs of the individuals they serve. Attendees will learn strategies they can immediately put into practice.
Topics:
- Types of trauma
- Significance of cultural trauma
- Adverse childhood experiences and their potential lifelong impact
- Foundational skills of empathy, genuineness, and respect and how these skills support the delivery of trauma-informed customer service
- Focused listening, questioning, and non-verbal communication skills to support the delivery of trauma-informed customer service
Course Length: 3.5 Hours
Course Description
In this training, learners will increase their knowledge about the impact of trauma on youth and bullying by focusing on childhood adversities and trauma; the adverse effects of trauma on children and youth; how bullying can be childhood adversity or trauma; the key characteristics of bullying; basic dos and don’ts for preventing and responding to bullying; and how to respond to an instance of bullying. This training supports staff and volunteers who work with children and youth from challenging places and situations to better prevent and respond to bullying among the children they serve.
Topics:
- The characteristics of bullying
- Trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) definitions
- The relationship between trauma, the pair of ACEs, and toxic stress
- The common signs of trauma in children and youth
- Comprehend bullying behavior from multiple perspectives
- Identifying dos and don’ts for addressing bullying behavior
- Identifying bullying behaviors
- Strategies for handling bullying behaviors
- Strategies for self-regulation
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
The in-person and virtual Trauma 101, Brain 101, Trauma to Resilience: Strategies for Supporting Children’s Well-Being, Recognizing and Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress, Psychological Safety and Differences are Good trainings are approved for 3 hours of continuing education for SW (core), LPC and LMFT (related), DECAL, FVIP, POST, Babies Can’t Wait Project SCEIs in Area I | Children and Families – Birth to 8 CEUs, and nursing.
Contact a member of our staff with any questions you have about the Child Welfare Training Collaborative.
The Child Welfare Training Collaborative provides training throughout the state. Let us know if you are interested in scheduling CWTC training in your area.
The Child Welfare Training Collaborative values the work of different people, agencies, and organizations providing resources to strengthen the work with families in Georgia who may be experiencing trauma.