Training + Events
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You don’t have to be an emergency room nurse or a social worker to benefit from trauma-informed training. Parents, community volunteers, teachers – anyone is welcome to attend our trainings. It’s offered in a variety of settings and styles, so choose the one that is right for you.
If you’d like us to come to you and your group, please contact us about opportunities.
March 2020
Framing ACEs (webinar)
Framing ACEs
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How we talk about an issue often matters more than what we say. To build understanding and support for our efforts, we should consider the ways in which our audience processes information into organizing ideas, or frames, and how we can present new frames.
This webinar will give an overview on how you can frame messages about your issue or organization for more effective communications. We’ll walk you through:
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April 2020
ACEs and Prenatal Strategies (webinar)
How a child develops is the foundation for a prosperous community in the future. Starting even before birth, a child’s brain architecture is being constructed through an ongoing process that continues into adulthood. But many children experience stress early on that damages the early developing architecture of their brain and can undermine their ability to reach their full potential. Not only can early experiences of adversity impact individuals’ lives, they also can impact future generations. Our experiences may be woven into our children’s and even our grandchildren’s genetic code.
If we are going to reduce trauma and improve health outcomes today, and in the future, we need to start at the beginning. The VERY beginning.
Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care (webinar)
NOTE: This is webinar version of our live classroom training using Zoom Web Conferencing.
Description:
What is Compassion Fatigue? Who does it affect? Why should you care? How do you deal with it? This workshop will answer these questions and build skills in the participant to identify, consider, and manage symptoms of compassion fatigue. Participants learn in an experiential environment that provides opportunity for reflection and analysis on their own symptoms of compassion fatigue through use of self-assessments and group discussion. At the conclusion of the session, participants will be provided with a self-care activity that provides the opportunity to relax and recharge.
Participants will:
- Be able to define the 3 elements of professional quality of life
- Identify characteristics that contribute to or provide resilience from compassion fatigue
- Create a self-care plan for implementation following the training
Juvenile Justice Trauma Training (webinar)
NOTE: This is webinar version of our live classroom training using Zoom Web Conferencing.
Description:
This training is designed specifically for those that work with juveniles who are involved in the Juvenile Justice System. Participants learn what trauma is and its impact on these youth, as well as develop awareness of the unique experiences that juveniles encounter by virtue of being involved in the system and the effect(s) these experiences have on their traumatic stress reactions.
Participants will:
- Learn how to view youth behaviors through a trauma lens
- Understand the role of resilience in buffering the effects of traumatic events
- Create a draft trauma-informed safety plan and understand how to use it with youth
May 2020
Mental Health Summit, 2020: After The TRAUMA, The REAL Battle Begins!
Description
After The TRAUMA, The REAL Battle Begins
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Greater Omaha Chapter (NC100BW, GOC) presents to you Mental Health Summit, 2020 on May 4, 2020 @ Milo Bail Student Center on the University of Nebraska – Omaha campus. The purpose of Mental Health Summit, 2020 is to bridge the mental health gap between awareness and disparity by providing educational sessions that impact adolescence, adults, families, professionals and the community at large. The training sessions are strategically planned with hopes of minimizing stigmatization and increasing community consciousness associated with the African-American mental health paradigm.
One of the most important growing concerns in our country is the lack of understanding surrounding mental health. May is Mental Health Awareness month. The NC100BW, GOC is implementing our third summit in effort to continue to educate and bring awareness as it relates to community mental health concerns. MHS, 2020’s focused theme is TRAUMA. Trauma is the underlying cause of many of our mental health concerns dating back to our ancestors Trans-Atlantic voyage. It is silently pervasive yet impacting overtly. The summit will address trauma in a comprehensive way, stimulating thought and engaging the audience in processes that affect behaviors which lead to mental health struggles, with trauma being the root cause.
Mental Health Summit, 2020 will overarchingly discuss the trauma subject from an enslavement perspective, knowing that slavery was the catalyst for much of African – American trauma. Who better to broach the subject than the author of POST TRAUMATIC Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, Dr. Joy Degruy.
Ms. Joy Angela DeGruy (keynote) holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication, a Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW), a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Social Work Research. Dr. DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher and educator. For over two decades, she served as an Assistant Professor at Portland State University’s School of Social Work and now serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Joy DeGruy Publications Inc.
Dr. DeGruy’s research focuses on the intersection of racism, trauma, violence and American chattel slavery. She has over thirty years of practical experience as a professional in the field of social work. She conducts workshops and trainings in the areas of intergenerational/historical trauma, mental health, social justice, improvement strategies and evidence based model development. Dr. DeGruy has published numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters and authored her seminal book entitled “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing.”
This one day summit will provide one plenary session and nine break-out session options on topics such as Community Trauma Priorities in Working with African Americans (AA), Trauma Research/Assessment and Quality Improvement with AA or Communities of Color, Trauma Informed Care/Adverse Childhood Experiences Focusing on African-Americans, Issues in Caring/Healing for Miltary Veterans and Sexual Assault Victims, Emotional Emancipation, and several other topics too vast to name here.
The primary target audience for this summit is our local Omaha community (adolescence, adults, and families), healthcare providers, nurses, behavioral/mental health practitioners, counselors and social workers. The summit will also offer credentialed continuing education contact hours for mental health professionals, nurses, counselors, drug and alcohol professionals and social workers in the Omaha area. This summit will benefit those interested in learning more about the mental health paradigm and how those concerns impact the African-American community. The conference will also benefit those who have a desire to advocate on behalf of black women and girls.
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Greater Omaha Chapter is partnering with the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Psychology Department in hosting Mental Health Summit 2020!
Learn more & register »Trauma and Resiliency in Families
Description:
The purpose of this training is to provide child welfare professionals with foundational knowledge about trauma and its effect on children and families as well as explore strategies that are trauma-informed in working with populations with a history of trauma.
Participants will:
- Be able to define trauma and describe how it differs from everyday stress
- Learn how to view behaviors and interactions with children and families through a trauma lens
- Identify the impact trauma may have on childhood developmental tasks
- Understand the role of resilience on buffering the effects of traumatic events
- Be able to describe ways they can help children and families experiencing traumatic stress reactions
Fostering Film Screening
Drawing on unprecedented access, Oscar winners Deborah Oppenheim and Mark Jonathan Harris upend some of the most enduring myths about foster care, going beyond the sensational headlines and stereotypes. FOSTER interweaves first-hand stories of those navigating the child protection system with insights from social workers, lawyers, and other advocates to offer a realistic but hopeful perspective on a community that needs society’s support. Join us for a screening of Foster and learn more about the varied experiences and perspectives the film’s subjects had of the child welfare system. See how these perspectives align or challenge your own beliefs and participate in a facilitated discussion following the film.
Objectives
Participants will:
- Gain an understanding of the foster care system through the eyes of a foster youth, foster parent, and case manager
- Learn about the unique challenges for each person depicted in the film
- Have an opportunity to share how viewing these stories may change how they see or how they work with clients and professionals in the child welfare system
June 2020
Mental Health First Aid
About this Event
Are you interested in learning more about mental health, how to identify a person who may be in crisis, or gaining skills in starting the conversation with a person who may be experiencing a mental health challenge?
Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour course that teaches you how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. Participants will learn how to identify, understand, and respond to signs and symptoms of mental illness. This course gives tools to help friends, family members, colleagues, and others in the community.Participants who completed the course are certified in Mental Health First Aid for 3 years.
Lunch will be on your own.
Juvenile Justice Trauma Training
Description:
This training is designed specifically for those that work with juveniles who are involved in the Juvenile Justice System. Participants learn what trauma is and its impact on these youth, as well as develop awareness of the unique experiences that juveniles encounter by virtue of being involved in the system and the effect(s) these experiences have on their traumatic stress reactions.
Participants will:
- Learn how to view youth behaviors through a trauma lens
- Understand the role of resilience in buffering the effects of traumatic events
- Create a draft trauma-informed safety plan and understand how to use it with youth
Resilience Screening — The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
Description:
“The child may not remember, but the body remembers.” The original research, conducted by Drs. Felitti and Anda, was controversial, but revealed the most important public health findings of a generation. RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to prevent and treat toxic stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything from heart disease to cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior.
However, as experts and practitioners profiled in RESILIENCE are proving, what’s predictable is preventable. These physicians, educators, social workers, and communities are daring to talk about the effects of divorce, abuse, and neglect. And they’re using cutting edge science to help the next generation break the cycles of adversity and disease.
Join us for a screening of RESILIENCE to learn more about this fascinating topic and participate in a facilitated discussion following the film.
CEUs are not offered for this training, however, certificates of attendance will be provided.
Learn more & register »Add Your Event to Our Calendar
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