Description
The STAIR model is a skills-focused approach designed to develop and strengthen emotion regulation, interpersonal skills while promoting resiliency. Participants will address how “loss” shows up in trauma survivors, and it will enhance skill building resources to provide “safety” for clients. With a Critical Race Theory lens, participants will further examine how prejudice and complex injustice further perpetuates trauma in the media, law, and access to resources of care and healing. This will be an opportunity to gain psychoeducational building blocks using the STAIR model infused with principles of ‘Sankofa’, an Afro-centered philosophy that means ‘reclaiming past knowledge’.
This training will be interactive and discussion-based with the use of videos and hands-on activities as learning tools that participants can use to support their professional development of trauma-informed practices when working with racialized individuals and families.
Learning Outcomes
- Utilize self-reflection to identify and challenge personal biases to better support the needs of clients and families.
- Examine how to support clients in developing safety and rebuilding ‘loss resources’ due to traumatic experiences.
- Identify ‘loss resources’ for clients and how to use clients’ strengths to build this resource.
- Explore different forms of safety that can support an individual or family who have experienced trauma.
- Employ self-care when supporting and addressing the vicarious effects of trauma narratives.
- Apply Critical Race Theory to understand how varying systems further perpetuate trauma and harm.
Who Should Attend
This course is recommended for anyone who works with racialized communities, specifically Black youth and families, who have experienced trauma and/or are impacted by systemic and institutional racism. Service providers that work with racialized youth within the criminal justice and mental health sectors may find this training highly relevant.
Course Dates & Format
November 17 & 18, 2025
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
This is a 6-hour training. This course consists of two 3-hour interactive virtual sessions using Zoom.
Instructor: Chioma Janelle Efejedia, BA, SSW, MSW, RSW
Ms. Chioma Janelle Efejedia is a registered social worker and psychotherapist who is a collective member of Sankofa Psychotherapy & Consultancy Group (SPCG), while operating her private practice in Kitchener, Ontario. Mrs. Efejedia holds a micro-credential in IRCA assessment through ANSJI in collaboration with Dalhousie University. Mrs. Efejedia has worked across many different sectors in the social service field, particularly with youth, young adults and Violence Against Women in the shelter system. She has over 10 years of experience in the social service sector. Mrs. Efejedia currently provides individual clinical counselling from a culturally responsive lens and offers training around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for community organizations.
Training Fee
Member Fee: $195.00 + $25.35 (HST) = $220.35
Non-Member Fee: $235.00 + $30.55 (HST) = $265.55
Group Registration: Save 20% off regular individual fees with a group registration of 4 or more participants. Download the group registration form HERE.
Continuing Education Information
Licensing boards and professional organizations will grant Continuing Education credits for attendance at their discretion when participants submit the course outline and certificate.
In-Service
This is available as an in-person or virtual in-service training and customized to suit your needs.
