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As part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma offers Free Online Education with:

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  • Helping a Transgender Youth Find Safety and Belonging

    In the midst of the pandemic, young people have faced increased isolation and disconnection. For Aiden, a transgender youth dealing with discrimination, ridicule, and exile from his peers, community, and family, being isolated at home for months has become almost unbearable. In this session Aiden ta...
  • Building Resilience in Families Contending With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

    This webinar will introduce the FOCUS Family Resiliency Program, a brief evidence-based intervention that is among the most widely disseminated family-based programs for military populations, and will discuss general issues in adapting it with families who have a child with intellectual and developm...
  • Community Violence and Civil Unrest: Youth Responses to Complex Harm and Collective Healing

    Features a conversation about creating awareness regarding youth responses to community violence, civil unrest, and societal history of marginalization and racial trauma. This webinar shares creative strategies and develops practices to help youth challenge these perpetual traumas through trusting r...
  • Tailoring Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Children with IDD

    In this webinar, speakers Daniel Hoover and Peter D’Amico discuss the tailoring of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for use with children and caregivers with significant limitations in cognitive, language, and other executive functions. The speakers will start by discussing the...

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  • Identifying Critical Moments and Healing Complex Trauma

    Provides clinicians, counselors, and other helpers with insights on recognizing and dealing with the most difficult crises and turning points that occur in therapy with traumatized children and families. Each webinar features a scene where the youth and caregiver are actors playing fictional charact...
  • Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) Training Modules

    The Online Training Modules were developed as a complementary resource to the RPC. These modules can be used by resource families and RPC facilitators in a variety of ways. For example, families who are considering attending a RPC group may complete a module to determine whether it would be worth th...
  • Addressing Trauma and Disproportionate Ethnic Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice through Empowerment

    Trauma and Disproportionality in the Juvenile Justice system are intimately related constructs that evolve out of powerlessness. Disproportionality has many causes, but at its core, there is a historical component that has consistently and methodically stripped Ethnic minorities of power. This remo...
  • Estrés Traumático Secundario: Cómo Entender el Impacto que Tiene el Trabajo de Trauma en los Profesionales

    Desarrollado por Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC este seminario define lo que es el Estrés Traumático Secundario (EST), describe como el contexto socio-cultural y las experiencias migratorias pueden impactar las experiencias de ...

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  • Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) Online

    Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) is a 5-hour interactive course designed for providers to help survivors gain skills to manage distress and cope with post-disaster stress and adversity. This course is for individuals who want to learn about using SPR, learning the goals and rationale of each ...
  • Working with Parents Involved in the Child Welfare System

    Unresolved trauma can negatively affect parents’ coping, parenting, and the ability to interact effectively with the child welfare system. This online course was developed for individuals who work with birth parents involved in the child welfare system, and offers tips for viewing parents through ...
  • Trauma and Race: Opportunities and Challenges for Therapists of Color Working with Families of Color

    In this webinar, viewers see critically important moments from three dramatized therapy sessions and hear from seasoned trauma therapists who reflect on their own experiences in working with clients of similar and different racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. Through thoughtful discussion, p...
  • Using the Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators

    The Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators was developed to provide school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system. The Toolkit is made up of 10 fact sheets that discuss various aspects of trauma ...

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PFA Online will be updated in the summer of 2021. If you have finished the course we ask that you download your current certificate.
The current PFA course is not for new users. We have left the current course available for users that have already viewed the lessons and need to take the post-test and download their certificate.
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