Transforming Trauma: How Schools Become Healing Communities (WORKSHOPS)

PD: Trauma | This program is completed

3835 Main St Manchester Village, VT 05254 United States

TBD

12.0 Professional Learning Hours

9/26/2019-10/29/2019

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$380.00

Target Audience: This workshop/course is appropriate for all PK-12 educators. Ideally teams of participants comprised of SU/school leaders, educators, mental health professionals and support faculty will attend together.


School professionals are increasingly being asked to work with highly complex students who have experienced chronic trauma. In these situations, conventional approaches to academics, behavior, and relationship-building can feel frustrating and sometimes counterproductive. This workshop and course will focus on the impact of chronic trauma on the developing child, including an in-depth exploration of the neurobiology of stress. Contemporary research, as well as educational and clinical practice, have helped clarify the expansive effects of chronic trauma. These effects are often referred to as the “Seven Domains of Impairment” (National Child Traumatic Stress Network). We will study these Seven Domains - with an eye towards their application in the school system - and focus on ways to transform knowledge into action. The interventions and strategies will be compatible with, and build upon, many current initiatives designed to support a positive school culture and climate.

Workshop participants will:
· Increase their knowledge of the impact of traumatic stress on a child.
· Learn and apply the “Seven Domains of Impairment” to their work setting.
· Increase their understanding of the neurobiology of stress, use dependence, and vicarious trauma.
· Increase their understanding of the unique and innovative strategies necessary to address traumatic stress.
· Study and implement various models of buffering the effects of ongoing stress to help improve a student’s resilience and accountability.

Workshop dates are 9/26 and 10/29. Participants must attend both days.

  • Discounted overnight rates are available the evening before each event. Please contact the Kimpton Taconic Central Reservation Office by calling 877.699.3331 and requesting to stay for the VT Higher Education Collaborative event.

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  • In addition to these workshops, VT-HEC and NFI offer graduate course options where participants advance and apply their learning. Contact Wendy Cohen (wendy.cohen@vthec.org) to learn more.
Melnick, David

Dave Melnick, LICSW is the Director of the Transforming Trauma Collaborative at the NFI Family Center. For the past 40 years, Dave has worked in a variety of clinical settings including outpatient, residential treatment, and in public and day treatment schools. Along with his focus on Developmental Trauma, Dave has expertise in family therapy, adolescence, attachment, Reflective Practices, and Trauma-Informed Systems. He has provided trauma-informed services to over 250 schools in Vermont, as well as those in NY and Quebec. In 2015, the ChildTrauma Academy (CTA) acknowledged that Dave had completed NMT Training Certification through the Phase II level, and between 2017-2021 he was a Fellow at the CTA. Dave teaches graduate classes for the Vermont Higher Education Collaboration, and is a presenter and consultant in Vermont, New York, California and Canada.