Training + Events
You’re Invited
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.
October 2019
Recharge for Resilience
Being Present with Your Practice
Recharge for Resilience is a two-day event that focuses on how to be present in your practice. The conference is for professionals that work with children and families in their home, such as: home visitors, parent Coaches, visiting nurses or home healthcare workers, Early Development Network Service Coordinators, early childhood or classroom teachers, Migrant Education Coordinators, Head Start or Early Head Start teachers, family support workers, and early childhood mental health providers.
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November 2019
Recovering Your Sacredness
Together, we can build a resilient Omaha.
Join us for an afternoon of inspiration, motivation, and insight about building personal resilience by breaking cycles of painful generational trauma. Be uplifted as Jerry Tello provides guidance on how to heal, restore, and build personal strength through recovering your sacredness.
Our keynote speaker, Jerry Tello, is the co-founder of the National Compadres Network. He is an internationally recognized authority in family strengthening, therapeutic healing, cross-cultural issues, and motivational speaking.
Register today!
Thanks for your interest in our event!
PARA Educator Conference
Paraeducators: The Link to Meaningful Connections
NDE is excited to announce the 30th Nebraska Paraeducator Conference. The theme is “Paraeducators, The Link to Meaningful Connections.” Paraeducators are invaluable in building positive relationships with students at every level. They can help teachers with prevention, responses, and effective strategies in building positive interactions throughout the day. In response to student’s challenging social and emotional needs, the conference will focus on information and strategies for paras to utilize to help create success for students.
Additional Information
Lunch will be provided. There is a $60.00 registration fee. Please see the Fee & Payment page for more information.
Included in the conference registration fee is a unisex t-shirt displaying the conference logo. Each conference participant who registers on or before NOVEMBER 1 will receive a t-shirt.
Learn more & register »February 2020
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
Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care
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
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 »Youth Mental Health First Aid
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
(for adults who interact with young people):
A FREE training about common mental health challenges, misconceptions, and how you can lend a helping hand to a person in need of support!
Mental Health First Aid USA is an 8-hour training to teach participants how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The evidence behind the program demonstrates that it helps trainees identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders.
Learn more & register »March 2020
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
Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care
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
Gang and Youth Violence
This training, delivered by Omaha’s newest youth violence prevention program – YouTurn – provides unique insight into gangs, violence, and Omaha’s highest risk youth. Through presentation, videos, case studies and panels/Q&A with credible messengers, learn about this important topic and the work YouTurn is doing.
Learn more & register »Add Your Event to Our Calendar
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