APPENDIX L

Behavioral Health Training And Education Network Trauma Trainings

Trauma Training Initiative

Trauma Theory 101: What Everyone Needs to Know about the Impact of Trauma, Adversity and Toxic Stress

Three one-day sessions per year

Upcoming Sessions:

6/26/23

10/23/23

2/26/24

CEUs Cost Available Modalities

SW, APA, PCB, CPRP, IACET

$30 Live virtual webinar

The purpose of this training is to provide foundational information about what neuropsychological trauma is and its impact on individuals across the life span. The prevalence of these issues is discussed. The course reviews the developmental, physiological, cognitive, and emotional results of experiencing trauma, particularly early childhood trauma. Up-to-date Information is provided on how individuals who have experienced trauma can remain affected, and how they present in behavioral health settings.

Community Resilience Model TBD by DBHIDS SW, APA, PCB, CPRP, IACET

TBD TBD

The Community Resiliency Model© (CRM©) is designed to support the creation of trauma responsive and resiliency- focused communities (adults and children) by offering a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system. This easy to learn, user-friendly, skills-based model focuses on how individuals can restore or increase resilience even during challenges in order to be able to bring their nervous systems back into balance. Once individuals learn the model they can teach it to other staff, peers, family members, neighbors. This training focuses on defining the Resilience or “OK” Zone and participants being able to Identify their own Resilience Zone and how to use CRM© skills to widen that zone. This introductory session focuses on teaching participants three of the five basic CRM skills and offering them the opportunity to practice them.

Trauma Informed Recovery, Resilience Tools and Supports Quarterly Upcoming Session: 5/3/23

APA, PCB, CPRP, IACET

$30 Live virtual webinar

This training provides information and practice strategies as well as specific tools for behavioral health and other human services staff working to support persons needing to recover from trauma, with a focus on how to interact with persons receiving services using trauma-informed approaches. The prevalence and neurophysiological impact of traumatic and toxic stress, particularly in early childhood is discussed. This training provides opportunities to practice and use at least 2 trauma-informed activities/tools.

Understanding Trauma: The Impact and the Intervention Quarterly TBD None

Trauma Training Initiative

CEUs Cost Available Modalities

Trauma is a significant public health concern and the need to address it is viewed as an important component of effective behavioral health service delivery (SAMHSA, 2014). This training will explore the foundational principles of trauma by defining, illustrating different types of trauma and explain the neurological process of trauma. The training will also offer solutions for a trauma informed approach which will include the 6 Guiding principles to a trauma informed approach and how to support trauma informed workplace.

Responding to Vicarious Trauma Quarterly TBD

None $0 Live virtual webinar

This training is designed to define vicarious trauma and understand its impact on the helper professional. It will explore signs and symptoms while identifying preventative strategies to intervene and decrease its impact

Supervision to Support Staff Wellbeing: Addressing Trauma Exposure Response

Quarterly Upcoming Session: 5/10/23

APA, PCB, CPRP, IACET $0 Live virtual webinar

Trauma Exposure Response can reduce direct service and clinical staff’s capacity to be effective, caring, engaging, hopeful and enthusiastic in the delivery of services. It is essential for staff, with support and information from their supervisors to understand and attend to the possible impact of serving individuals and families with histories of childhood abuse and adversity. This training will present strategies and tools that supervisors can use in their program settings to help prevent and address the impact of vicarious traumatization and secondary trauma. Trauma Exposure Response, Vicarious Traumatization, and Secondary Trauma will be defined and discussed.

Trauma Informed Supervision: Addressing the Realities Annually Upcoming Session: 9/27/23

SW, APA. PCB, CPRP, IACET

TBD Live virtual webinar

Discussion and activities in this course build on BHTEN’s training Supervision to Support Staff Wellbeing: Addressing Trauma Exposure Response. This session will delve into the role of organizational culture, and other institutional issues that affect service efficacy such as staff’s ability to do meaningful traumainformed work. Focus will include presenting and discussing strategies for supervisors to address any existing barriers. Opportunities will be provided to examine best practice concepts and collective experience from the perspective of supervision in order to envision what an effective trauma- informed organizational culture at participants’ agencies/programs can look like.

DIY Storiez: Trauma Narratives and Urban Youth Annually Upcoming Session: 4/19/23

SW, APA. PCB, CPRP, IACET

$30 Live virtual webinar

This training begins with an introduction to trauma (defining trauma, exploring trauma exposure and urban youth, and considering the consequences of trauma exposure). It then explores trauma treatment for youth (best practices, treatment modalities, common factors, and trauma narratives). Finally, the DIY Storiez intervention is presented using didactic material, video content, and participatory activities. Storiez is a 9-step framework to assist urban youth as they create, voice, and honor their life narratives. The DIY Storiez intervention is an adapted version of the full trauma narrative process. It supports trauma survivors in creating abbreviated trauma narratives with the support of teachers, program leaders, coaches, and other community support.

Trauma Training Initiative CEUs Cost Available Modalities

Storiez-Trauma Narratives for Urban Youth-Clinician Training Annually Upcoming Session: 6/14-15/23

SW, APA. PCB, CPRP, IACET

$60 Live virtual webinar

This training guides clinicians through the process of helping trauma survivors create, voice, and honor their narratives. It begins with an introduction to trauma (defining trauma, exploring trauma exposure and urban youth, and considering the consequences of trauma exposure). It explores trauma treatment for youth (best practices, treatment modalities, common factors, and trauma narratives). Finally, the Storiez intervention is presented using didactic material, video content, and participatory activities. Storiez is a 9-step framework to assist urban youth as they create, voice, and honor their life narratives using a variety of artistic formats and mediums.

Trauma Basics Annually Upcoming Session6/6/23

SW, APA. PCB, CPRP, IACET $30 In-Person Workshop

Whether or not it is fully recognized, human services workers are working with survivors of trauma. Given the prevalence and impact of violence amongst this population, the need for integrated services that are informed of trauma theory and include interventions designed to address the impact of trauma is evident. This introductory training aims to increase awareness and understanding on the part of services providers at all levels of the prevalence of trauma in consumers, the impact of that trauma on consumers, their behaviors and beliefs, and finally, how a more trauma-informed approach will enhance work with survivors of all ages.

Men’s Trauma Empowerment Model

TREM Versions

Women’s, LGBTQIA+, Adolescent

2-Day Training

Upcoming Session –

6/7-8/23

TBD

SW, APA. PCB, CPRP, IACET

$75 In-Person Workshop

This is a 2-day course. The TREM model is an evidenced-based 24-session, manualized group intervention that addresses the impact of interpersonal violence and trauma on persons with serious, persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorders. Documentation of three to five hours of prerequisite training in basic trauma theory is required for TREM training participants to receive certificates of completion for this two-day workshop. At the end of the workshop participants should be able to co-facilitate this group model. Participants in this training have completed the required application process and review.

Psycho-education: Helping

Adults Heal and Grow after Trauma

Annually

Upcoming Session:

4/27/23

SW, APA. PCB, CPRP, IACET $30 Live virtual webinar

Psycho-educational interventions for people who have experienced trauma, complex trauma, vicarious traumatization and/or traumatic loss are increasingly used to promote resilience, recovery, and posttraumatic growth. This webinar will help participants learn content and methods for enhancing psychoeducation and family education interventions, as well as what to avoid, based on available research. Participants will have an opportunity to select an adult target population within their area of interest and expertise, then begin developing a psycho-educational intervention for that population.