Trauma-Responsive Care Foundations

Course Summary

This course covers guidelines for application of trauma-responsive care principles to behavior intervention plans and crisis prevention plans, as well as group behavior systems such as classroom management systems, residential facility programs, and school discipline policies.

Learning Objectives

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

1. Understand foundational and intermediate-level training on Adverse Childhood Experiences, brain and body adaptations to trauma, and the window of tolerance and state-dependent functioning.
2. Share a foundational understanding of historical and cultural trauma.
3. Employ strategies to promote regulation skills, build resilience, and apply the essential elements of trauma-responsive care.

Learning Audience

The learners for this training are behavioral health professionals who work with children and youth with challenging behaviors or those who create or implement individualized behavior plans or group behavior systems.

• This includes general and special education teachers, school health/mental health professionals, school administrators, education paraprofessionals, mental health providers, system of care workforce, residential providers, parents, and other caregivers.

Course Duration

• 240 minutes (4 hours)