From Hurting to Healing: Creating Trauma-Sensitive and Healing-Centered Family Child Care Programs

Details

Course Length

10 hours

Delivery Method

Asynchronous eLearning

Category

On-Demand eLearning

Course Summary

Creating trauma-sensitive and healing-centered environments requires leaders to be trauma-informed and well-supported. This five-module course provides family child care educators with the concrete knowledge to recognize trauma and respond to it in sensitive and culturally responsive ways. Each module explains how trauma affects staff, children, and families and how to reduce trauma’s negative impact through healing-centered practices.

Module 1. Developing the Trauma-Sensitive Educator

Learners will discover the signs and symptoms of experiencing trauma, explore how educators can create safe spaces for trauma-impacted adults and children, and gain skills in considering the impact of trauma on interpersonal relationships and behaviors. Explore applying trauma-sensitive practices and policies in the community and in larger systems.

Module 2. The Impact of Trauma on Behavior

Learners will be given methods and opportunities to practice discussing concerns with families about evidence of trauma in children’s play and make appropriate referrals for child and family support, including collaborations with other service providers when indicated to assure children’s safety in a non-stigmatizing way.

Module 3. Culturally Responsive Teaching and Trauma-Sensitive Care

Learners will explore how to create supportive environments and engage in culturally responsive and trauma-sensitive practices by examining their cultural beliefs, identifying historical and generational collective trauma, and defining culturally responsive practices.

Module 4: Creating Trauma-Informed Policies & Environments

Learners will explore how to apply strategies to help reduce the impact of trauma on children’s development. Strategies will include incorporating trauma-sensitive strategies into emergency preparedness plans.

Module 5: Buffering the Impact of Secondary Trauma

Learners will be better prepared to recognize secondary trauma/stress symptoms, signs of professional burnout, and compassion fatigue. Learners will identify their triggers and build healthy coping skills. Learners will gain tools and strategies for self-care and consider how that differs from self-compassion.

No prerequisites are required. Click here to learn about TSI Training Policies

CEUs are earned when the learner completes all activities and knowledge checks.

CEU Credits

1.0 CEUs

CDA Competency Area

Content Area II: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development
Content Area III: Positive ways to support children’s social and emotional development
Content Area IV: Strategies to establish productive relationships with families

MN KCF Content Area

II.A: Creating Positive Learning Experiences
II.C: Promoting Social and Emotional Development
III: Relationships with Families
III.D: Cultural Responsibility and Practice
IX: Trauma Informed Care

Level

3 (Advanced)

State Approval

Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

Explain parents’ and educator’s use of trauma-informed perspectives on individual children’s development.
Reframe concerns with families about evidence of trauma in children’s play and make appropriate referrals for child and family support, including collaborations with other service providers when indicated to assure children’s safety in a non-stigmatizing way.
Produce policies and culturally sensitive practices that buffer the impact of racial trauma on children, families and caregivers.
Build opportunities for children to experience power, privilege, and predictability that provide a sense of safety from harm.
Promote policies and culturally sensitive practices that buffer the impact of racial trauma on children, families and caregivers.

Criteria to earn CEUs:

To receive a certificate and CEUs, you must complete all components of this course, including scoring 80% or higher on the review quiz. You can retake the final review quiz and all interactive components as many times as needed.
No prerequisites are required. Click here to learn about TSI Training Policies

Required Technology and Logistics

Users are highly encouraged to take their online course on Google Chrome on either a laptop or desktop computer.
A stable internet connection is required for the completion of this course.