Transforming Trauma - Level 1 COURSE: Understanding Stress, Traumatic Stress and the 5 Key Practices

Transforming Trauma - Level 1 COURSE: Understanding Stress, Traumatic Stress and the 5 Key Practices

PD: Gen Ed | This program is completed

- Online, VT - United States

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Graduate

7/9/2021-8/25/2021

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$1,695.00

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



As schools reckon with the reality that trauma is a public health crisis, we begin to examine the ways that our school communities are impacted by stress, adversity, and suffering. We begin to transform trauma when: we understand the impact of stress and traumatic stress and recognize how it affects our performance across multiple domains; we see resilience and well-being as relational skills and not individual enterprises; and we purpose our knowledge of equity, neurobiology, attachment, and recovery for action and social justice.

Trauma work is relational work which requires intensity, intimacy and the capacity to embrace complexity thinking. Trauma-informed school communities are at the epicenter of innovation and best practice. They strive to meet the needs of their students, families, staff, and leadership by embracing equitable, just, and trauma-informed practices.

Participants will examine the core beliefs and mindsets necessary to become trauma-informed, as well as the practices used to begin to transform ourselves and the students and families with whom we serve.


The course will focus on the art and science of trauma-informed practices. Participants in this course will:
· Increase knowledge about the impact of traumatic stress on children and adolescents.
· Understand the events, experiences and effects of Developmental Trauma, and what it means to be trauma-informed.
· Study and apply the 5 Key Practices in order to help with trauma transformation and improve student outcomes.
· Learn to identify the ways in which adults and youth respond to heightened levels of stress.
· Increase understanding of the neurobiology of stress, use dependence, and vicarious impact.
· Examine ways to increase workforce and student resilience.
· Develop a training module for their school/program/department.

  • This course is fully online. Click View Schedule (above) for days and times.
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.