As part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma offers Free Online Education with:
- 300+ FREE CE certificates
- 50+ speakers
- 200+ online webinars
- 90,000+ members
Search results: 126
Project Fleur-de-lisTM (PFDL), an intermediate and long-term school-based mental health response to Hurricane Katrina, was designed to conduct school-based trauma-informed treatment. This case study examines the rationale, design, implementation, evaluation and impact of PFDL as a grass roots program that evolved into a model for a school-based trauma-informed system of care for nearly 100 schools in the Greater New Orleans area. Lessons learned from PFDL can assist other cities and their schools that experience disasters by informing school policy in disaster preparedness and in the immediate and long-term school-based mental health responses for students.
Discuss research findings and real-life experiences to better understand how gang involvement affects young people’s emotional and psychological well-being. This webinar explores parallels between gang-involved youth and other vulnerable populations, such as youth who have experienced trafficking, and highlights promising trauma-informed approaches that can help. It also offers recommendations for intervention, research, and systemic changes to better support at-risk youth and their communities.
In this webinar, trauma experts will debate and explore the pros and cons of adopting a formal Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) diagnosis. Polyvictimized youth develop a broad spectrum of psychopathologies, with a number of complex comorbidities which can present unique diagnostic and treatment challenges. The importance and relevance of including both DTD and PTSD diagnoses into existing diagnostic systems, along with key considerations, will be discussed.
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Eleven-year-old Clara is in her third treatment session, sharing about the first sexual abuse she experienced. Clara’s growing discomfort is evident as she describes her mother’s former live-in boyfriend, Michael, and how the abuse progressed. Clara becomes overtly distressed and leaps onto the therapist, embracing him. The therapist gently reestablishes physical boundaries and facilitates her diaphragmatic breathing. The scenario illustrates the complexity of the therapeutic relationship and the balance therapists must achieve for effectively supporting traumatized patients while also maintaining healthy boundaries.
Highlights how COVID-19 has contributed to increased Secondary Traumatic Stress among the child and family-serving workforce and offers strategies and tips individuals and organizations can use to support wellness.
Provides training and materials for mental health clinicians and substance abuse treatment providers on the complex intersections between psychological trauma and co-occurring substance abuse and dependency. The course includes interactive online modules on understanding the links between traumatic stress and substance use among adolescents, a webinar and lecture presentation featuring expert faculty from the NCTSN, and a four-part Train-the-Trainer video series entitled “Trauma and Co-Occurring Disorders: Understanding and Working with Youth and Their Caregivers.”
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
Provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of the needs and challenges transgender and gender-expansive youth face. This new webinar covers basic definitions surrounding gender, gender identity, and gender expression, while creating a learning environment for participants to examine their own perceptions of gender and reflect on the capacity of their role as a professional. Participants learn about developmental considerations, components of a social transition, and aspects of a medical transition. Presenters examine the impact of trauma transgender and gender-expansive youth may experience and how providers can build an affirming practice and environment for the youth and families that they serve.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
This webinar provides an overview of Child Traumatic Grief, exploring how it differs from typical bereavement and the risk factors that contribute to its development. Participants will learn how grief manifests across developmental stages, from regression behaviors in young children to physical and social symptoms in school-age children. The session also covers foundational elements of trauma-focused clinical work, including psychoeducation, addressing trauma-related beliefs, integrating caregivers into treatment, and recognizing when a child's distress calls for professional intervention.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
Childhood Traumatic Separation is a trauma in which children experience familial separation under sudden, chaotic, frightening circumstances and develop traumatic stress reactions. Unprecedented numbers of families are being separated at our southern
border, and many children experience traumatic separation from close family members due to other circumstances. This webinar describes developmental, cultural, and clinical aspects of Childhood Traumatic Separation; similarities and differences between
Childhood Traumatic Separation and Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG); and how evidence-based trauma treatments for CTG can be applied for children with Childhood Traumatic Separation.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased parental stress and rates of intimate partner violence, and contributed to heightened risk for vulnerable children to experience child maltreatment or to develop problematic sexual behaviors (PSB). Without effective treatment, these traumas can contribute to long lasting negative physical and mental health outcomes, but circumstances of the pandemic have created challenges to identifying these children. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially critical for clinicians to assess the full range of interpersonal trauma exposures and responses that youth may experience, and to provide impacted youth with trauma-focused evidence-based treatment. This webinar will describe assessment strategies and evidence-based interventions for interpersonal violence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic across development, with a focus on 1) how to ask children about their trauma experiences and responses; 2) the use of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for young children and their parents/caregivers who experience interpersonal trauma in the wake of COVID-19; 3) features of problematic sexual behaviors (PSB) in children 12 years and younger, the critical role of parents in addressing these, and two evidence-based treatments for this population; and 4) the use of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for youth who experience interpersonal trauma including PSB and their non-offending parents/caregivers.
Category: Child Sexual Abuse
This 1 hour 30 minutesonline training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
The Attachment Vitamins online course is an interactive, self-paced e-learning course for those adults who often find themselves in the company of children aged zero to five and their families, including professionals such as early childhood educators and child care providers, public health workers, nurses and other medical providers, and case managers; and also for the caregivers of young children themselves. Co-created by Dr. Alicia Lieberman, author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler, and world-renown expert in the areas of parent-child attachment, child development, and trauma, Attachment Vitamins provides a clear and elegant overview of early social-emotional development with insights and suggestions to support healthy and mutually-satisfying child-caregiver relationships. During the course's nine modules, participants will learn about early childhood social-emotional development; the impact of stress and trauma; reflect on the possible meanings of children’s behaviors; explore the influence of culture on families' socialization goals; and become familiar with a number of strategies aimed to promote secure attachment and safe socialization practices.
This 4 hour training offers certificate of completion but does not offer any CEs.
This 4 hour training offers certificate of completion but does not offer any CEs.
Category: Clinical Training
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
The Breakthrough Parent Curriculum: Navigating Trauma Across Generations, or BPC, is a 10-module in-person training based on the NCTSN's Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents. It is designed for parents involved with or at risk of involvement with the child welfare system. The BPC educates parents about the impact of trauma on themselves and their children, while providing information, skills and strategies for understanding, healing, hope and growth. The BPC is intentionally designed to be delivered by two co-facilitators: a Parent Facilitator and a Non-Parent Facilitator.
Category: Service Systems
Moments of crisis (as seen in dramatized therapy sessions) will be viewed and discussed with a focus on how therapists can handle the challenge of remaining attuned to intensely distressed clients while also recognizing and regulating their own stress reactions. When children or adult caregivers experience peaks of hyperarousal – as expressed in many varied forms including anger, terror, and dissociation – the therapist must maintain a dual focus of attunement with the client(s) and themselves. Experienced trauma therapists discuss their own stress reactions, the questions and dilemmas these reactions raise for them, and helpful strategies for remaining fully and effectively present with their clients.
Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma Advanced Cohort 3 Facilitator Training Materials
Training materials and communications for Advanced Facilitator Training in the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma.
This course is accessible to graduates of an NCTSN-sponsored Basic or Advanced Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) facilitator trainings. It provides the necessary materials to support you in planning, preparing, and facilitating a CCCT training. This site will also help you to network and collaborate with other Core Curriculum facilitators to improve your trainings and share resources.
The presenters will share current information about refugee arrivals in the US and refugee mental health needs and best practices. They will discuss how host communities/service providers need to take trauma and loss into consideration as they support refugees. Presenters will discuss refugee core stressors and highlight the importance of creating trauma-informed, culturally accessible services. Additionally, they will utilize Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R) as an example of an intervention specifically tailored to address the needs of refugees.
Category: Culture and Trauma
The Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT) is a training series designed to support the infusion of trauma-informed knowledge and skills into child welfare organizational cultures. This toolkit contains targeted training for various levels and roles, resulting in positive sustainable changes in the policies, programs, and practices which lead to better outcomes for children, youth and families. Visit the TIPs Center Website for additional resources geared towards trainers and those who have been trained on the CWTTT.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Service Systems
This webinar will detail how National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) researchers and practitioners with expertise in complex trauma and children partnered with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the New York State Department of Health to establish complex trauma in children as an eligible condition for health home coverage. This translation of research and practice into policy provides an enhanced treatment and financing benefit for children exposed to complex trauma. Learn how New York State put this concept into practice and generated a complex trauma referral workflow for this population of children.
Category: Policy
Considerations for Clinicians Working with Children and Families from Different Cultural Backgrounds
In this webinar, participants will see critical moments from three dramatized therapy sessions and hear from seasoned trauma therapists reflecting on their experiences working with clients of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Presenters will lead a thoughtful discussion exploring the intersections of developmental trauma, clinical work, and race. Webinar participants are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and will have the opportunity to ask questions to further the discussion.
Offers insights into the experiences of children and families facing forced displacement in the U.S., including the trauma associated with such circumstances; strategies for coping with unconfirmed death and loss within diverse forcibly displaced communities; and provides ways to use the NCTSN resource, Coping with Unconfirmed Death for Forcibly Displaced Children and Families: Tips for Caregivers.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
En este seminario web desarrollado por Lisa Fortuna, MD, Alisa B. Miller, PhD and Saida M. Abdi, MSW, se ofrece información relacionada a la intersección entre la cultura, la experiencia migratoria, el trauma y la evaluación. Además, se comparten recomendaciones para proporcionar una evaluación culturalmente receptiva y apropiada para los niños, asi mismo las mejores prácticas para trabajar con intérpretes de personas que tienen contacto directo con niños no acompañados (por ejemplo, proveedores de atención) o trabajar con personas que tienen contacto directo con niños no acompañados (por ejemplo, supervisores).
Esta capacitación en línea de una hora ofrece un certificado de finalización, y 1 crédito de educación continua (CE), al completarse.
In this webinar, experts from diverse service sectors will explore trauma-informed, culturally-responsive strategies for serving separated children who have migrated to the US from countries in Latin America. They will discuss policies and practices relevant to the protection and best interests of unaccompanied and separated immigrant children. Presenters will also give viewers an overview of a project providing mental health care and family navigation services for Latino immigrant families along the US southern border and community-based interventions in rural northern New Mexico. In addition, they will identify clinical challenges and strategies for serving migrant children and families in a primary health care setting.
Category: Policy
Developed by Javier Rosado, PhD, Susana Rivera PhD, and Luis Flores, MA, this webinar defines traumatic separation and grief and outlines the developmental impacts on youth. Additionally, participants will learn how to be responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of youth. Participants will learn children’s common fears and perceived threats to safety experienced by youth exposed to traumatic events as well as culturally responsive strategies for staff to use when working with youth.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Offers foundational information related to the intersection of culture, the migration journey, trauma, and assessment. In addition, recommendations for providing culturally responsive, child-friendly assessment and best practices are shared for working with interpreters for individuals who have direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., care provider staff) or work with people with direct contact with unaccompanied children (e.g., supervisors).
This 1 hour online training offers certificate of completion with 1 CE upon completion.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) proposes to include a new grief disorder—Prolonged Grief Disorder—in its forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5-Text Revised (DSM-5-TR), which is scheduled for release in 2021. Members of the National
Child Traumatic Stress Network have developed recommendations to make these diagnostic criteria more developmentally informed and helpful for providers who serve children and adolescents. This webinar will review the draft criteria, proposed developmental
recommendations, and implications, risks, and opportunities that a new grief disorder can bring. The NCTSN encourages providers and members of the public to educate themselves about the newly-proposed grief disorder and to participate as informed consumers
during a public comment period, which is scheduled for early April to mid-May 2020. This public comment period presents a critical opportunity to advocate for diagnostic criteria that are developmentally informed. For more information on the DSM-5-TR
Prolonged Grief Disorder visit: https://www.nctsn.org/treatments-and-practices/dsm-5-tr-prolonged-grief-disorder-informed-consumer-and-advocate
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion upon completion. No CEs are offered for this webinar/course
Category: Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5
In this webinar, using a new “Digital Diaries” format, we will meet Samantha, a high school student, and her trauma therapist, Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King. Samantha is a composite of several young women, not an actual client, and is portrayed by an actress in order to protect privacy. During the webinar, we will learn about Samantha’s challenges and struggles, but also her triumphs as she navigates through her traumatic experiences. In a unique approach, Dr. Briggs-King encourages Samantha to complete diary entries, not in the traditional paper and pencil way, but electronically. This affords us the opportunity to be with Samantha as she processes these experiences and discovers incredible strengths she is able to tap into.
As the landscape continues to shift increasingly towards integrated care as a mechanism for focusing on whole health, many child serving organizations must grapple with complex issues that arise in implementing integrated care and addressing child trauma in non-traditional settings. This webinar will feature leading child and adolescent experts who will speak about their recommendations for effectively addressing policy challenges in implementing integrated care.
Category: Policy
Explore how trauma and disproportionality are connected and how these experiences impact young people, their families, and their communities. This webinar examines both historical and present-day causes of disproportionality, as well as how exposure to trauma can influence behaviors and interactions within the justice system. The discussion highlights ways to create more supportive, community-centered systems that focus on empowerment and positive change. Presenters share insights on how families and communities can be active partners in shaping fair and effective support services for youth.
Adam a 15-year-old, is referred to therapy after several weeks of unexplained sickness. Adam has always excelled in school despite having been sexually abused by his soccer coach in his past. About a year ago, Adam’s grades and sports performance started to slip when an adult female tutor became sexually abusive and threatened him if he reported her. Adam was already seeing a therapist to work on recent difficulties in school and conflicts with his parents. As he attempts to end therapy, he reveals for the first time that he is experiencing current sexual abuse.
Research has shown that LGBTQ youth who have family support have better outcomes through their youth and into adulthood. This is especially relevant for LGBTQ youth who have experienced trauma and may face ongoing safety concerns related to their identities. This webinar will outline techniques for engaging families in affirming treatment and care of their LGBTQ youth, including a review of strategies used within the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) with founder Caitlin Ryan. FAP, a research-based prevention and intervention initiative, uses a culturally grounded framework to help diverse families support their LGBTQ children with decreasing health and mental health risks and promoting well-being. Practitioners will examine ways to engage in cultural humility and understanding when engaging families and youth in trauma treatment.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
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 EST y propone estrategias específicas para fortalecer los factores protectores para poder prevenir, identificar y abordar el ETS en el ámbito laboral. A través de ejemplos, los participantes aprenderán acerca de quién
está en riesgo, factores organizacionales e individuales relacionados con el ETS y cómo abordar el tema de bienestar para el equipo de apoyo.
Esta capacitación en línea de una hora ofrece un certificado de finalización, y 1 crédito de educación continua (CE), al completarse.
Discusses ways the LGBTQ+ community, Black community, Hispanic and LatinX community, and AAPI community have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, how historical traumas and inequities persist today, and strategies for providers to be more inclusive and trauma-informed.
Explores policy challenges and solutions relevant to working with refugee youth, and highlights activities and resources related to refugee youth.
Category: Policy
Presents, through dramatized therapy sessions, traumatized youth who are profoundly emotionally shut down or dissociative and how therapists can remain attuned to clients while managing their own affect. When children shut down or dissociate they may seem unreachable or impossible to engage; yet through therapy those traumatized children can learn to understand and recover from their post-traumatic reactions. Experienced trauma therapists discuss their reactions to these critical moments of disconnection and impasse in trauma therapy, the questions and dilemmas this raises for them, and ways they have found to engage with detached or dissociated clients while handling their secondary traumatic stress reactions.
Helps providers and current caregivers understand and recognize the effects of traumatic separation in immigrant children of different ages, understand how immigrant children’s prior trauma experiences influence current functioning, and provides practical suggestions for how to support immigrant children who have been separated from parents and siblings.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
This webinar will share how the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT) has been implemented in three different states by non-profit organizations, in partnership with their child welfare jurisdictions.
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Isabella, an 18-year-old young adult with PTSD and a regular client of Dr. Gilda Rodriguez, has an intense dissociative reaction after a loudly slamming door triggers a flashback. Dr. Rodriguez helps Isabella cope with her flashback by engaging in a variety of grounding techniques and guides her to recognize the crisis as a trauma-related reaction to an unexpected reminder of witnessing the gun-related death of a close friend. This enables Isabella to process feelings of fear and grief while regaining a sense of being safe in the current moment. In the Case Conference after the session, Dr. Rodriguez talks with colleagues and the social work supervisor at a respite house where Isabella resides. Dr. Rodriguez describes her observations and responses to the intense dissociative reaction experienced by Isabela. Parallels are identified between the grounding techniques Dr. Rodriguez used and the informal but equally important ways in which the social worker interacts with Isabella on a day-to-day basis.
In this webinar, speakers will discuss an integrated approach to recognizing and responding to child and family traumatic stress when children have cancer. Speakers will explore the impact of the diagnoses and treatment on the child and family, discuss cultural considerations that may intersect with a family’s response, and describe their approach for assessing, managing and treating traumatic stress.
Features James, a 16-year-old African American youth who has been living with his maternal uncle, Patrick, since he and his two younger sisters were removed from their biological parents three years ago when James reported to a teacher that his father physically abused him. The teacher filed a report with Child Protective Services (CPS), quickly leading to the removal of James and his two younger sisters (ages seven and nine at that time) from the family home. CPS has been the legal guardian of all three children ever since. CPS gave Patrick physical custody of James, but James’ sisters were placed with a foster family. Patrick helps James enter psychotherapy with Dr. Julian Ford. During his first telehealth session , James is skeptical about whether Dr. Fordt can understand what it’s like to to be a young African American man. As their session proceeds, James hesitantly opens up and share some of his deep frustrations and fears, including how James hopes that Patrick can accept and support him as he navigates these complex issues.
Often, adolescents may feel heard but not listened to in their family environment. This may be especially true in families with a history of trauma and/or family violence. This webinar will demonstrate approaches therapists can take to help adolescents feel more invested in the family therapy process. During this session, presenters will highlight critical decision points as they relate to trauma and explore them from various perspectives, including that of the therapist and family members.
Introduces learners to the symptoms of Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG) and Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). It explores how cultural and religious rituals, holidays, school events, and personal anniversaries can both support and challenge grieving children. Participants will learn practical ways parents, teachers, and other adults can offer meaningful support, and will be introduced to two evidence-based treatments, TF-CBT and TGCT-A, for helping children with PTSD and grief-related difficulties. Speakers include: Judith A. Cohen, PhD; Robin F. Goodman, PhD; and Susana Rivera, PhD.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
In this webinar, you will hear from five expert trauma therapists about their experiences and reflective processes while working with children and families who have experienced developmental trauma and come from complex backgrounds in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. In addition, Dr. Rocio Chang (who also participated in the roundtable discussion) will moderate live commentary with Dr. Maureen Allwood, Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King, and Dr. Russell Jones. They will talk about the importance of open conversations related to the roundtable topics as well as the impacts of recent events that have brought racism to the forefront.
In this webinar, experts summarize key areas of implementation science, the NCTSN’s role in implementation, lessons learned, and a call to action for the Summit and beyond. During this 50-minute opening session, Byron J. Powell, PhD, LCSW presents on Opportunities to Improve Implementation in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and the NCTSN's Ginny Sprang shares opening plenary remarks, The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts. Targeted small group discussions specific to the perspectives of agency leaders, trainers, and developers that culminate in initial ideas and recommendations from each group are also highlighted during this webinar.
Provides Certificate of Completion and CE credits.
Sexual health is an essential new clinical resource for professionals treating the intersection of sexual orientation and sexual trauma. By incorporating the principles of sexual health, clinicians will uncover deficit-focused sexual attitudes and taboos that are barriers for attaining sexual health knowledge among LGBTQ youth, their families and their trauma healing communities. Mr. Braun-Presenters will provide a map for increasing trauma therapist’s comfort, willingness and knowledge to initiate and facilitate sexual health conversations that promote LGBTQ youth coming to know the positive potential for their sexual development and health. They propose six fundamentals of sexual health to frame treatment and guide client sexual health conversations within their individual, couple, and family therapy. Workshop participants will learn how to consider the full potential of LGBTQ sexual lives to thrive as an essential ally for improving sexual trauma assessment and treatment.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
In this webinar, providers and health care professionals will learn about the consequences and multifactorial etiologies of pediatric obesity and food-related behavior problems. Speakers will describe multidisciplinary preventive interventions and health promotion strategies to improve the health of families who have experienced trauma and will discuss special considerations for child welfare and immigrant populations. A guest family member will aid participants’ understanding of and strategies for improving family engagement in patient care.
Desarrollado por Marta Casas LMHC, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, este seminario web se enfoca en niños migrantes no acompañados menores de 5 años. Para los niños migrantes pequeños, la separación de los padres, puede peligrosamente agravar y exacerbar estresores traumáticos previos y tener efectos devastadores a corto y largo plazopara ellos. Por lo tanto, estos niños pueden presentar desafíos a nivel deldesarrollo, relacionales, de autorregulación y de comportamiento que pueden ser difíciles de entender y manejar. Las presentadoras discuten intervenciones informadasen el desarrollo, el trauma ysocioculturalmentesensiblese involucran a la audiencia en reflexiones sobre las mejores prácticas y la importancia de adaptaciones ycambios en lapráctica para poder servir adecuadamente a esta población.
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.
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
No matter the scope or topic of your training initiative, the ultimate goal of your training effort is to assure that agencies and care providers are able to sustainably implement the new treatment or practice into the continuum of care they provide to children and families. The goal of the TOOLCIT curriculum is to support NCTSN sites as they implement, spread, and sustain evidence-based treatments, practices, interventions, and system changes to organizations that serve children and families who have experienced trauma. The curriculum is aimed at those directing, leading, advising, or serving as faculty for any collaborative implementation initiative including Learning Collaboratives, Learning Communities, and Breakthrough Series Collaboratives.
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.
This webinar depicts a moment when Rose initially directs her feeling of being victimized toward her therapist. Rose expresses that therapist’s contact with her mother and school has increased the stigma and vulnerability she feels, and her sense that she’s not getting the support she needs. Rose sees the therapist as responsible for greater distress for both herself and her mother. This is a critical turning point in treatment, which illustrates the complexity of developmental trauma and raises questions as to whether the therapeutic relationship can be repaired. The therapist attempts to balance concerns of trust and safety in the context of Rose’s culture and the impact of developmental trauma across generations.
The Road to Recovery: Supporting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Have Experienced Trauma Toolkit was developed by the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) and the NCTSN Trauma & IDD Expert Panel, a national selection of individuals with expertise in trauma and IDD.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Special Populations
In this webinar, Ann Masten addresses four aspects of resiliency. She defines resiliency and discusses why it is important to understand 'resilience', by highlighting research findings on resilience and showing how to adapt a resilience framework to practice.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
As a trauma informed caregiver, one of our many responsibilities is to partner with a variety of providers including pediatricians. Unless you have some medical training yourself, this is not an easy task! In this 30 minutes webinar however, Dr. Heather Forkey, MD, makes it a little easier to understand the “rhythm” of a pediatric appointment and offers suggestions for resource parents and pediatricians alike to see a variety of physical and behavioral symptoms children may exhibit through their “trauma lens”.
Category: Trauma-Informed Integrated Healthcare
In this webinar, Russel Jones focuses on the roles cultural sensitivity and race play in research on PTSD in children. The presenter discusses his research as it relates to Katrina and African Americans.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Trauma Training for Early Childhood (TTEC) Online is a 4-hour interactive course that covers key concepts on trauma and young children through 15–20-minute lesson segments. This course builds on existing early childhood curriculums while focusing on the varied experiences and needs of children and families through a relational lens. It is designed for any professional who works with young children and/or their families.
This 4-hour interactive online training offers certificates of completion with 4.0 CEs upon completion.
This 4-hour interactive online training offers certificates of completion with 4.0 CEs upon completion.
Category: Clinical Training
In this webinar, Juliet Vogel and Peter D'Amico discuss the origins and organization of the CATS Program following September 11. They share their experiences of working with evidence-based treatment in the real world and describe the experiences of clinicians who have worked with structured assessment and a manual. They also discuss engagement, psychoeducation, narrative therapy, relapse prevention and termination, as well as working with families.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Describes applications of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for trauma-impacted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender expansive, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth. These applications were developed during a year-long NCTSN learning community, and are provided in a TF-CBT LGBTQ Implementation Manual. They are currently being evaluated in an ongoing quality improvement project. Composite cases and preliminary outcome data are described.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
Crossover youth—those involved simultaneously or successively in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems—represent a population with specific risks and unique needs for trauma-informed services. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the processes leading maltreated youth to become dually involved in the juvenile justice system and will describe the characteristics of crossover youth with a particular focus on those living in urban settings, including the highly disproportionate representation of ethnic minority youth and girls. Theories and research regarding the underlying developmental processes and trajectories that link childhood maltreatment to adolescent involvement in the juvenile justice system also will be presented. A clinical framework for trauma-informed services and trauma-specific therapeutic and rehabilitative services will then be described, including models for intervening at the levels of systems and institutions, as well as evidence-based approaches for treating traumatized families and individual youths.
In this webinar, David Foy defines spirituality. He discusses the distinction between spirituality and religion as well as the consequences trauma has on spirituality. He addresses the signs and symptoms of a moral injury and, in concluding, discusses the importance of self-care for mental health providers.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Focuses on current challenges and recommendations for addressing the needs of young immigrant children, youth and families; highlighting the importance of community partnership, early childhood protections; addressing substance use and its effects, as well as faith-based supportive approaches. This webinar provides insights in to increased risk factors, including decreased access to financial, technological, social, educational and healthcare resources resulting in an increasing risk of infection, family separation and loss, trauma exposure and victimization.
Describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents. Speakers share their perspectives on being involved in the child welfare system including clinicians, former foster youth, along with a biological and foster parent. They discuss supporting foster or adoptive children and youth who are coping with traumatic separation in out-of-home care as well as the impact of traumatic separation on birth parents.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
This webinar will provide a brief overview of the definition and impact of traumatic separation. Speakers will discuss the importance of understanding traumatic separation when working with youth in the foster and kincare systems. Potential strategies to reduce the impact of traumatic separation for this population will be addressed. Participants will have an opportunity to share innovative products or processes being implemented in their communities.
This 1 hour 30 minutes online training offers certificate of completion with 1.5 CEs upon completion.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
Maya, a 9-year-old girl, was referred for therapy due to numerous instances of domestic violence by her father toward her mother (some of which she witnessed), physical abuse by her father, and possible sexual abuse with no specific disclosures. Both parents have extensive histories of substance abuse, including opioid and amphetamine use. Maya’s father is currently incarcerated for drug and violence-related crimes. Her mother was unable to consistently take care of Maya for the past few years due to substance abuse issues so Maya was removed from her care. Maya has two failed foster home placements due to significant aggressive and sexualized behavior. She is currently residing in a stable foster home and has begun to have monitored visits with her biological mother who was recently discharged from a drug rehabilitation program. Maya has attended therapy with this therapist for only a short time and recently, has begun to demonstrate more trauma-related play. This session illustrates how dysregulation and trauma processing can be exhibited in play, sometimes with significant distress for the child with developmental trauma. The critical dilemma involves to what extent the therapist helps a highly traumatized child to manage her distress versus engage in trauma processing.
Speakers will discuss the key causes, major consequences, and professional responses related to community violence and its traumatic stress-related impacts on youth, including: exploring the historic and contemporary causes of violence exposure among urban youth and their families, understanding the interrelated contexts of violence exposure that impact urban youth, and developing specific goals for implementing best practices for serving violence-exposed urban youth.
In this webinar, you will meet Penny and her adopted mother, Jan, who are in an emergency session with Dr. Ford. Penny was sent home from school for assaulting another child.
Understanding the intersection of complex trauma, development, and culture creates a foundation for effective case planning, treatment, and intervention. This therapeutic session shares strategies for identifying the developmental and cultural needs of an immigrant client, and recognizing facilitators and barriers for healing from complex trauma. Lessons from this session support culturally-responsive approaches for developing therapeutic bonds and promoting effective practices to engage family members.
Since the Defending Childhood Initiative was launched in 2010, the DoJ has awarded grants around the country to develop strategic plans for comprehensive community-based efforts that will further demonstrate the goals of this initiative. This webinar will guide participants in understanding the DCI and its policy implications for the child trauma field. Presenters will discuss the history and current status of the DCI and highlight current and future practice and policy implications for those committed to addressing the needs of children and families exposed to trauma.
Category: Policy
Applies the 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children to challenges children and families are facing during the Examining the Intersectionality of Disparities and COVID-19 pandemic and features experts along with a family partner to illustrate how children and families are responding to these stressors and how we can begin to address challenges.
In this webinar speakers focus on understanding the intersection between cyberbullying and trauma. This presentation was recorded in conjunction with National Bullying Awareness and Prevention Month.
Category: Schools and Trauma
The Using the CANS-Trauma Comprehensive course offers providers ways to use the CANS-Trauma Comprehensive, a tool designed to support individual service, treatment planning, and evaluation of service systems. This course contains demonstration videos, PowerPoints, helpful resources, as well as links for training on the use of the CANS.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Clinical Training
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 in schools and how educators and parents can respond. This course includes a series of short presentations designed to accompany the Toolkit and provide additional information related to the topics in the fact sheets. Related resources, including webinars on the Learning Center, are also highlighted.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Service Systems
In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, please join us for a very important webinar where presenters will be discussing both sexual assault that occurs within the context of ongoing relationships AND those that occur in a one-time interaction (e.g., at a party, among casual acquaintances, friends, etc. who are not in an ongoing intimate/romantic relationship). Presenters include a mother who will speak about her LGBTQ daughter’s experiences of sexual assault at school as well as their participation in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
Category: Child Sexual Abuse
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 a trauma lens, practical strategies to provide effective support to parents, and reminders about the importance of professionals’ own self-care.
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
Explores how young people respond to community violence and the lasting effects of marginalization and hate-based trauma. This webinar discusses creative strategies to help youth process these challenges and build resilience. It offers effective practices that support young people in overcoming these ongoing traumas.