Transforming Trauma: Helping Schools Become Healing Communities in the Context of COVID-19 COURSE

Transforming Trauma: Helping Schools Become Healing Communities in the Context of COVID-19 COURSE

PD: Gen Ed | This program is completed

- Online, VT - United States

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Graduate

10/20/2020-4/1/2021

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$1,590.00

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Target Audience: All PK-12 educators, SU/school leaders, mental health professionals and support faculty.



Many students today arrive at school with unprecedented adversity due to high rates of traumatic stress, the current pandemic, social isolation, and inequities. Oftentimes, our traditional methods of relationship building, discipline, and instruction are falling short for these students, leaving educators strained, frustrated, and self-doubting. In this course, we will study the harmful effects of trauma on students and on the workforce, the premises for trauma-informed practices, and the core capacities necessary to successfully address posttraumatic stress. Finally, we study the central components for building resilience, first for the workforce and then for students.

Through a mix of lecture, dialogic learning, video and role plays, and case consultations, participants will:
· study the central role of mindset and its impact on our choice of intervention, strategy, and technique.
· examine our own beliefs and biases as the driving force of our actions with students.
· analyze how stress can be both a generative and positive influence on our lives and a destructive and harmful one.
· learn the core capacities necessary to be more successful with students.

In addition, participants will:
· increase knowledge of the impact of traumatic stress on a child and understand the unique and innovative strategies to address it.
· learn and apply the “Seven Domains of Impairment” to their work setting.
· increase understanding of the neurobiology of stress, use dependence, and vicarious trauma.
· study and implement various models of buffering the effects of ongoing stress to help improve a student’s resilience and accountability.
· learn basic tenets of organizational change and effective treatment models in the field of trauma transformation.
· develop their own training module for their school/program/department.

  • This course begins with two full live virtual workshop days, plus 5 additional synchronous online meetings. Click View Schedule (above) for days and times.

  • If you would like to register for only the two workshops days, please CLICK HERE.

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.