Certified Trauma and Resilience Specialist in Education

Description

In this foundation-setting course/certification, participants will be walked, step-by-step, through the 10 steps to create a trauma-informed, resilience-focused school.

Presented by Dr. Caelan Soma, the 10 Steps to a Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Focused School course content focuses on resilience and an emphasis on understanding how trauma impacts children and their school experience. It provides proactive strategies such as fostering connections, prioritizing social and emotional skills, establishing safety, and promoting play. Detailed information and concrete actions are also covered, and in a way that doesn’t just answer the “why” but also the “how” to create the best classroom and school supports for traumatized students and the school professionals who serve them. Later in the course, a strong focus on understanding the link between a student’s private logic and their academic achievement and behavior deficits in the Circle of Courage’s universal needs is addressed, as well as how to assess students and create behavior support plans for each. Strategies to collaborate with families and communities and to support staff will be presented also, as well as examples of how to collect and utilize outcome data.

Included with Purchase: 

• Online Content:
  • 10 Steps to a Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Focused School self-paced, online course (takes approximately 12 hours to complete)
  • Course Certificate of Completion (upon successful completion of course exam)
  • Certified Trauma and Resilience Specialist in Education (CTRS-E) Certification, Badge, and Certificate of Completion
  • 10 Steps Activities Course Packet
  • Access to the course page for 1 year
  • Closed Captioning on all video content (English & Spanish subtitles available)
• Physical (printed) copies of:
  • 10 Steps to Create a Trauma-Informed Resilient School Book
  • Trauma Education Booklet Bundle
    • A Trauma is Like No Other Experience
    • What Parents Need to Know
    • You Are Not Alone
• StarrPASS CTRS-E Membership for one year, providing unlimited video streaming access to additional resources, plus downloadable PDFs of:
  • 10 Steps to Create a Trauma-Informed Resilient School Activities Packet
  • Circle of Courage Staff Self-Assessment
  • One-Minute Resilience Building Interventions for Traumatized Children and Adolescents Workbook
  • Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Focused Behavior Support Plan for Children and Adolescents
  • Violence in Schools: What Matters Most
  • Podcasts, Webinars, and new video content

Course Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Identify at least three questions to ask to promote a trauma-informed and resilience-focused mindset when working with students in the school setting.
• Name the four main protective factors of resilient youth.
• Describe how trauma impacts the deep and outer brain functions specifically in the school setting.
• Recall at least five proactive strategies for every classroom.
• Express the concept of private logic and provide at least two examples of how private logic impacts behavior in the school setting.
• Recognize at least three ways your school can collaborate with caregivers, family and community.
• Recount the importance of self-care for educators and other school professionals.
• Report at least three evaluation strategies to use to determine your school’s level of trauma-informed and resilience-focused practices.

Continuing Education Credits

This certification is available in person or online.  Continuing education credits are available for an additional cost of $60. 12 Social Work and/or 12 Educator continuing education credits are offered in partnership with Grand Valley State University, authorized by Administrative Rule 338.2963 to award Michigan social work continuing education contact hours, and authorized by the Michigan Department of Education to award State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs).

Starr Commonwealth has been authorized by two additional professional continuing education governing bodies: (1) National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and (2) Texas Education Agency (TEA) for educators residing in Texas. For NBCC, Starr Commonwealth is an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5768, to offer 12 continuing education credits to Certified Counselors. For TEA, Starr Commonwealth is an approved Continuing Education Provider (CPE) No. 902637, to offer 12 continuing education credits to Texas educators. Starr Commonwealth is solely responsible for administering NBCC and TEA credit.