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Esta presentación fue desarrollada por el Dr. Javier Rosado, PhD, la Dra. Susana Rivera PhD, y Luis E. Flores, MA. Este seminario web define la separación traumática y el duelo traumático y describe el impacto en el desarrollo en los jóvenes y niños. Además, los participantes aprenderán cómo responder a las necesidades culturales y lingüísticas de los jóvenes. Los participantes aprenderán a identificar los temores comunes de los niños y las amenazas a la seguridad que perciben los jóvenes expuestos a eventos traumáticos, así como las estrategias que responden a la cultura de los jóvenes y que el personal puede utilizar con ellos.
Esta capacitación en línea de1 hora y 30 minutos ofrece un certificado de finalización, junto con 1.5 créditos de educación continua (CE), al completarse.
In this webinar, Joy and Howard Osofsky provide a foundation for understanding children in disasters. Topics discussed include evaluation and treatment services for traumatized children, school support services, PFA in unusual situations, resilience, and vicarious trauma. The presentation focuses on data on children affected by Katrina.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Jordyn, who disclosed sexual exploitation in a previous session has continued to see her therapist to address her symptoms of distress which include depression and PTSD. During this session Jordyn is joined by her father Jimmy who has his own trauma history related to combat exposure. Despite notable progress in both Jordyn’s and Jimmy’s respective individual treatment, tensions are growing at home that are related to the upcoming court proceedings and trial for the man who exploited Jordyn. To address the mounting tensions at home, the therapist decides to focus on communication. In this family session, secrets are revealed and the therapist is challenged to repair the rift between father and daughter caused by the information disclosed.
The NCTSN has learned a lot through the development of products that increase access to and quality of care, by spreading treatments and best practices in training and system change efforts, and more recently, regular gatherings of implementation experts working at all levels of child trauma treatment and care. This series focuses on three different and critical components of effective implementation – the framework, readiness preparation, and sustainability.
Provides Certificate of Completion, does not provide any CEs.
This webinar is a virtual guide that walks through Making Think Trauma Stick: A Guide to Training and Implementation, developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). This guide helps support the process of implementation at your organization, introduces key factors and activities to engage in before, during, and after the full Think Trauma training, and includes tips and questions to utilize along the way.
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
This webinar is a virtual guide that walks through Making Think Trauma Stick: A Guide to Training and Implementation, developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). This guide helps support the process of implementation at your organization, introduces key factors and activities to engage in before, during, and after the full Think Trauma training, and includes tips and questions to utilize along the way.
Introduces Enrique Sanchez, a young immigrant father who brought his seven-year-old son, Joaquin, to a new country without the rest of their family. The therapist, Dr. Chang, explains to Enrique that she has to report to the Department of Children and Families her concerns for Joaquin's safeby because Enrique has been leaving Joaquin unsupervised at night. Recognizing how this is shocking and may seem like a betrayal to Enrique, Dr. Chang empathically helps him to approach this challenge as an opportunity to protect Joaquin and with confidence that they will work together to make this a beneficial experience for Enrique and his son.
Features Dr. Wizdom Powell, an artist, Director of the Health Disparities Institute, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Senior Consultant for the Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders at UConn Health, who has worked to reduce health gaps and promote wellness by boys and men from communities of color. During this segment, Dr. Powell will describe the impact of chronic exposure to developmental trauma on young Black men and share how intergenerational trauma has affected them, and their families and communities. She will highlight creative pathways that can be considered to promote healing.
Presenters describe what comprehensive care for children in the child welfare system looks like, and they discuss what it could and should look like through a trauma-informed lens.
Category: Trauma-Informed Integrated Healthcare
This webinar will provide a trauma-informed integrated healthcare model for conceptualizing young children exposed to violence and other traumatic stressors. The presenters will address issues pertaining to the identification, management and treatment of traumatic stress in young children exposed to trauma. A clinical case example will be discussed from the perspectives of both a pediatrician and mental health clinicians.
Category: Trauma-Informed Integrated Healthcare
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) was created by Congress in 2000 as part of the Children’s Health Act to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for children and families who experience or witness traumatic events. This unique network of child-serving professionals, caregivers and young adults, researchers, and national partners is committed to changing the course of children’s lives by improving their care and moving scientific gains quickly into practice across the U.S. The NCTSN is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and coordinated by the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS). This course is for those who are getting started in the Network or want a refresher on the NCTSN and all the activities of the Network.
This interactive online training offers certificate of completion. Does not offer any CEs.
This interactive online training offers certificate of completion. Does not offer any CEs.
Category: Continuing Education
Community violence—especially in urban areas—is an escalating crisis for far too many children and families across the United States. Given the urgency of this public health issue, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is hosting a national forum to address community violence in the lives of youth and offer examples of solutions through partnership and collaboration from various sections of the country. Presenters will include individuals currently involved in addressing community violence: youth, mentors, therapists, police officers, and federal agency administrators.
The NCTSN Trauma-Informed Organizational Assessment (TIOA) is a validated assessment developed by the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) to help child- and family-serving organizations measure and strengthen their trauma-informed practices. Grounded in expertise from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the assessment consists of 87 items across nine domains, providing a comprehensive evaluation of organizational trauma-informed practices. Designed within an implementation framework, the TIOA supports meaningful systems change by identifying strengths, highlighting areas for growth, and integrating trauma-informed principles. By implementing the NCTSN TIOA, organizations can establish a shared language around trauma-informed care, create a roadmap for change, identify ways to support staff, and enhance services for children and families impacted by trauma.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Service Systems
The Not Lost in Translation: The Clinician-Interpreter Dyad in the Mental Health Setting course is intended as a companion piece to the Not Lost in Translation face-to-face or virtual training. This course is based on the resource, A Socio-Culturally, Linguistically-Responsive, and Trauma-Informed approach to Mental Health Interpretation, and is designed to increase the capacity and partnership of professional interpreters and mental health clinicians working together in order to improve quality and access of services for children, adolescents and families with no or limited English proficiency (LEP) and who have experienced trauma and are seeking mental health services.
This training offers certificates of completion with 1.5 CEs for Clinicians and 2.5 CEs for Interpreters.
This training offers certificates of completion with 1.5 CEs for Clinicians and 2.5 CEs for Interpreters.
Category: Clinical Training
Presents brief vignettes from three dramatized therapy sessions with commentary from seasoned trauma therapists who reflect on their own experiences in working with clients of similar and different backgrounds to their own. Webinar participants are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences in working across similar cultural backgrounds and have the opportunity to share their questions to further this important discussion.
In this webinar Cassandra Kisiel and Tracy Fehrenbach overview the purpose and utility of the CANS-Trauma Comprehensive as an innovative, trauma-informed assessment strategy. Applications of CANS-Traumaare also described, at both the direct service and systems levels, and across a range of service settings. Resources designed to support the implementation and use of the CANS in practice are discussed. Information on training and certification on the CANS-Trauma and use of the CANS in trauma-informed treatment and service planning and caregiver/family engagement is presented.
This 1 hour 30 minutesonline training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
To date the COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 800,000 deaths in the United States, with more than 140,000 children losing a parent or primary caregiver to COVID-19-related deaths. Due to the nature of these deaths, many children may develop traumatic stress reactions that contribute to problematic grief responses. This webinar will describe aspects of COVID-19-related deaths that can contribute to children’s traumatic stress reactions, with an emphasis on developmental considerations and behavioral health disparities.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
To date, more than 800,000 individuals in the US have died from COVID-19 and more than 140,000 children and teens have lost parents or primary caregivers to COVID-19-related deaths. Many of these youth are at heightened risk for developing traumatic stress reactions to these deaths. This webinar describes trauma-focused evidence-based treatments (EBT) for children and teens who develop traumatic stress reactions, with specific applications to familial deaths during COVID-19 for 1) young children; 2) American Indian and Alaskan Native families; 3) Black and Latinx adolescents with adjunct peer support components; and 4) diverse youth provided via telehealth.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
In this webinar experts will explore policy challenges and lessons learned in promoting and supporting trauma-informed schools. Speakers will share key NCTSN resources related to the development and implementation of trauma-informed schools; discuss the relationship between practice and policy in the sustainability of trauma-informed school models; and share examples and insights gained from the creation and implementation of a trauma-informed school in Los Angeles, California.
Category: Policy
This webinar will provide examples of state and federal policy issues related to child sex trafficking. Further, NCTSN resources related to the topic will be shared.
Category: Policy
In this webinar, Robert Macy discusses definitions of psychosocial approaches, disasters, and disaster resiliency. He also develops the concept and understanding of traumascape and outlines the PMH psychosocial continuum of care for disaster trauma. In addition, he discusses the PMH Evaluation Models and reviews the evidence base for Classroom/Culture/Community-Based Intervention (CBI).
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Viewers meet Kate and her daughter, Dani, who are in their first therapy session with Dr. Saltzman. This session takes place one year after the sudden and traumatic loss of Jim, their husband and father. Dr. Saltzman helps both Kate and Dani to express their feelings and concerns and explore how they are dealing differently with their shared loss. As they work through the session, Dr. Saltzman helps Kate and Dani to start finding common ground and developing a plan to move forward.
Shows the modern-day manifestations of the intersection of historical, intergenerational, and migration trauma and its compounding impact with present-day traumatic stressors on the parent-child relationship of an indigenous Guatemalan parent whose young child came to the US as an unaccompanied minor when they are reunified. Viewers will also see a framework for engagement where the therapeutic relationship is used to restore safety, co-regulation, protection, and hope in the parent-child relationship. This framework is aimed not only at repairing the child-parent relationship but also at exploring, acknowledging, and including the family’s historical and socio-cultural context in developmental trauma treatment.
In this webinar, Armen Goenjian and Alan Steinberg present their findings from research data on the 1988 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia and make references to other natural disasters. They present research on the longitudinal course of PTSD, controlled treatment outcomes, neurohormonal functioning, impact of single and double trauma, impact on the elderly, moral development, orphans, and genetics of PTSD and depression.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
A centralized resource for providers and resource parents who are using or interested in using “Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents” in their communities.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Service Systems
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 their time to attend an entire workshop. Families or facilitators can also complete the modules after a face-to-face workshop to reinforce their learning. We also imagine families sharing these modules with those on their child’s service teams – such as educators, extended family, or daycare providers – to help them understand the impact of trauma and the behaviors they may be seeing. Finally, RPC Facilitators may use these modules as pre-work for RPC sessions so that more in-person time can be spent on applying these concepts.
This training offers certificates of completion but does not offer any CEs.
This training offers certificates of completion but does not offer any CEs.
Category: Service Systems
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth experience trauma at higher rates than their straight peers. Common traumas experienced by these youth include bullying, harassment, traumatic loss, intimate partner violence, and physical and sexual abuse, as well as traumatic forms of societal stigma, bias and rejection. Historically, professionals have failed to recognize and meet the needs of traumatized LGBTQ youth, leading to poor engagement, ineffective treatment and in some cases, perpetuating the youth’s traumatic experiences. To ensure that these youth receive the care they deserve, providers need resources to create safe spaces and familiarize themselves with the issues facing traumatized LGBTQ youth.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
Developed by Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC this webinar defines Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case examples, participants will learn who is at risk, organizational and individual factors related to STS, and how to approach support staff wellness.
This 1 hour online training offers certificate of completion with 1 CE upon completion.
Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) is the emotional distress that results when an individual hears about the firsthand trauma experiences of another. For child-serving professionals who are exposed to details of traumatic events in the context of their work, STS is a common occupational hazard. If we know more about STS, ways to process work-related trauma exposures, and organizational level strategies to become more STS-informed, the better prepared we are to mitigate and address STS as individuals and in our agencies. This course is for all child-serving professionals who are exposed to details of traumatic events and/or individuals suffering from post-traumatic distress in the context of their work. Through the content in this course you will learn the risks associated with working with individuals who are suffering with traumatic stress symptoms, strategies to reduce the impact of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and support wellness in staff, and finally, how addressing STS is an ethical mandate for organizations and individuals working in trauma-exposed environments.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Clinical Training
Shows Soledad, a 14-year-old girl who has recently been released from her first psychiatric hospitalization after an attempted suicide. Soledad is the oldest of five children. She lives with two of her siblings in a foster home while her other siblings were sent to a different house. Soledad’s mother was detained after physically attacking Soledad during what seemed to be a psychotic episode. Soledad worries about her mother and two younger siblings, whom she has not seen since they separated. This is Soledad’s first session scheduled by her welfare worker.
This webinar aims to build provider awareness on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in psychiatric, child welfare, juvenile justice, and other residential settings. Speakers will examine the effects of trauma and the systemic barriers faced by LGBTQ youth in out of home care. Participants will hear perspectives from youth, their families, and residential programming staff about the challenges faced by LGBTQ youth in out of home care. In addition, they will present strategies for creating safe, inclusive, and youth-centered spaces and programming, as well as concrete skills for advocating and empowering LGBTQ youth.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
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 core skill, delivering SPR, and supporting survivors in the aftermath of a disaster or traumatic event. This 5-hour interactive online training offers certificate of completion with 5 CEs upon completion.
Note: Our certificates do not have expiration dates. The NCTSN Learning Center no longer resets certificates for learners who want to retake a continuing education course or renew certificates.
If you are trying to complete the course to renew your certificate and get a new completion date, you can create a new account, retake the course, and download the new certificate from there.
Many states are playing a leadership role in enacting and implementing policies to support trauma-informed services for children and families. This webinar will highlight two examples of such state-based child trauma policy innovations.
Category: Policy
In this webinar speakers focus on strategies and innovations that support the meaningful use of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)-Trauma and Family Assessment of Needs and Strengths (FANS)-Trauma in practice in a range of child and family settings. The presenters illustrate how the CANS/FANS-Trauma can support individual and family-informed trauma case conceptualization, and treatment planning. The also discuss interventions and strategies for using assessments in trauma-informed systems/agency planning and implementation.
This 1 hour 30 minutesonline training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Trauma exposure is common among youth and families experiencing substance use problems, and having both problems leads to greater need and impairment. Given the strong link between trauma and substance use, national policy efforts to address substance use must be trauma informed. This webinar will provide an overview of several national policy challenges and solutions in the area of trauma and substance use. Experts will highlight recently enacted and pending federal policy proposals to address substance use issues across the lifespan; discuss the substance use policy challenges facing child trauma practitioners assisting children, youth, and families; and discuss the work of the NCTSN and its Trauma and Substance Abuse Collaborative Group to address these important issues. The experiences and policy-relevant recommendations of a family caregiver familiar with substance use issues will also be highlighted.
Category: Policy
Explores ways the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted services for adolescents such as peer support programs, pediatric emergency care services, and other mental health services. Provides recommendations for supporting youth and families and providers with strategies for addressing secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout.
Samantha is a 15-year-old African American girl who lives in public housing in an urban area rife with violence and drug use. Samantha is an outstanding student and attends private school on scholarship, where her friends describe her as beautiful, popular, brilliant, and a star athlete. At age 10, Samantha saw her brother murdered when he was walking her home from school. Their mother became hysterical and chronically depressed, and their father changed from a loving dad to drinking and screaming at the family. Samantha was sexually assaulted by her boyfriend’s male friends at a party at which she, usually a non-drinker, became intoxicated and passed out. Samantha has no memory of the assault and was referred to a female therapist, Dr. Sofia Mattei, by a sexual assault counselor who met with her at the hospital. This webinar presents Samantha’s first therapy session with Dr. Mattei.
Adolescents experiencing co-occurring traumatic stress and substance use problems have greater severity of symptoms, functional impairment, and are often involved with multiple service systems, including Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare. Caring for these youth can take a toll on family members. This webinar will provide a picture of the challenges experienced by families caring for youth with trauma and substance use, address the effect of trauma and substance use in the context of the family, and provide information on promising practices, supports, and resources for families. Featured speakers have experience leading local and national advocacy and support efforts and will share their personal connection to these family struggles. Participants will be able to (1) identify ways in which trauma and substance use are linked for youth and families; (2) understand the effect of youth substance use and family trauma on family functioning; and (3) learn about promising practices, supports, and resources for families.
During both peace and conflict, children with parents in the military face unique military related stressors. Military children may develop childhood traumatic grief following the death of caregiver from combat or non-combat situations. This presentation will provide an overview of issues specific to military culture and family life, describe two models for treating military children with traumatic grief, and will highlight a military consumer voice.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 4 storm that created widespread devastation in Puerto Rico in September 2017. This webinar will highlight how the NCTSN brought in culturally-adapted trauma and grief interventions to several child-serving systems and are ensuring the sustainability of these practices to better identify and treat traumatized and bereaved children and families.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Explores how systemic cultural and institutional structures have historically contributed to divisions in the U.S., often creating tensions between communities through policies and social dynamics. The recent rise in attacks against Asian Americans highlights deeper societal challenges that call for meaningful and transformative healing efforts. Through a focus on historical context, community resilience, and actionable steps, this discussion aims to foster a more inclusive, supportive, and trauma-informed society while offering recommendations for positive change.
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 challenges assessing this population, such as the issue of bias and “diagnostic overshadowing,” then will present a structured process for tailoring the TF-CBT components while also allowing for flexibility and fidelity of the treatment. Speakers will offer helpful planning and implementation tools such as a “matrix” of suggested IDD strategies and resources specific to each of the TF-CBT components while illustrating their application through clinical case examples.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
This course contains interactive online lessons that lead you through the 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families. The Core Concepts are conceptual lenses used to better understand childhood trauma, its causes, effects, and strength-based systems approaches to case conceptualization and intervention planning. These lessons can assist NCTSN sites and members to understand foundational principles of childhood trauma.
This training offers certificates of completion but does not offer any CEs.
This training offers certificates of completion but does not offer any CEs.
Category: Clinical Training
The NYU Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation has developed the Child Welfare Traumameter (CWT), a collection of organizational assessment tools and processes that support the implementation and evaluation of trauma-informed practices within public and private child welfare agencies (i.e., those that provide child protection, preventive and/or foster care services). The CWT can be used to support trauma-informed practices across an entire agency, or for specific programs within an agency. The goal of the CWT is to help child welfare agencies fully integrate a “trauma lens” into their day-to-day activities by operationalizing different aspects of trauma-informed care, identifying areas of practice that are currently lacking a trauma focus, developing plans for practice improvement, and measuring the change in their practice over time.
Category: Service Systems
In this webinar, you will hear from Andrew Woods, a clinician with over two decades of experience working with boys and men of color. Andrew is the executive director of Hartford Communities That Care (HCTC), a nonprofit 501(c) (3) community-based organization founded in 1998, whose mission is to create a thriving, non-violent and drug free environment for youth and families. As a leader and advocate for victims of violence and trauma in underserved communities, Andrew has developed and implemented culturally appropriate, high quality, and evidence-based crisis response, mental health and supportive programs, partnerships, and policies to improve the lives of youth and adult victims of crime and their families in the Greater Hartford Area of CT.
In this course, Dr. Vilma Reyes discusses the impact of trauma and young children including its impact of brain development; its impact on social, emotional, and cognitive development; and its impact on parent-child relationship and parenting dynamics. Dr. Reyes also describes trauma-informed interventions, common factors in most trauma treatments, and ways that providers can promote empowerment, hope, and safety.
This training offers certificate of completion but does not offer any CEs.
This training offers certificate of completion but does not offer any CEs.
Category: Special Populations
Introduces Miguel, a 17-year-old with a history of truancy, fighting, and multiple arrests since the age of 14— around the time his mother passed away from cancer. He lives with his grandmother and siblings and occasionally sees his father, who lives out of state. Recently, during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Miguel was arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest. His previous therapist of several years has transitioned out, and he is struggling to make a real connection with his new therapist.
In this webinar, you will meet Angel Cooper, Matthew Bump, Weimy Montero, and Marcell Paige, four amazing young adults who will talk about their experiences and thoughts on resiliency. They will reflect on their goals, challenges, healthy coping styles, and hopes for the future. The participants reflections will give us an inside look at resilience and how it can impact developmental trauma. Dr. Rocio Chang will moderate live commentary with Drs. Mandy Habib, Cheryl Lanktree, Monique Marrow, and Isaiah Pickens. In this live commentary, the experts will talk about the importance of having open conversations with young adults as well as how to listen to their own reflections and reactions while these conversations are taking place.
In this webinar we meet Fareed Rogers, a 17-year-old patient at a psychiatric hospital, who has a history of violent behavior. Dr. Samuels, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, with expertise in violence and trauma, has been brought in to evaluate Fareed, and determine if he should be transferred to a high risk unit for adults. Excerpts from this session will be shared in an audio format, followed by a panel discussion of experts, another audio expert, and final round table discussion that includes audience questions.
Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Juvenile Justice Involved Youth, 2nd Edition is an in-person training curriculum focused on the complex process of creating a trauma-informed juvenile justice system. This course includes all the documents and other resources necessary for juvenile justice administrators and leaders to facilitate four comprehensive, skills-based, and interactive modules aimed at audiences of direct care staff who provide services to residential youth.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Service Systems