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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.