We are pleased to offer a selection of free webinars to support your ongoing learning. These expert-led sessions are designed to enhance trauma-informed practice through accessible online training.
Coping with Climate Change: Mental Health Strategies
Learn to recognize climate distress, provide compassionate support, and promote resilience using evidence-based strategies. The global climate crisis threatens our health and well-being as well as those we support. People are dealing with the direct and indirect impact of fires, major storms, heat waves and an increase in pollution, and it is having a huge impact on mental health. You’ll leave equipped to support yourself and others through the psychological toll of environmental crises.
Regulation, Relationships, and Resilience: How to Support Students Affected by Trauma
Students need to feel physically and emotionally safe to do their best learning. How do we create this environment in our classrooms and schools, particularly for children who have experienced relational trauma and whose behaviour may be challenging? This free webinar, Regulation, Relationships, and Resilience: How to Support Students Affected by Trauma, will bring together how neurobiology, physical and emotional regulation, healthy relationships, and restorative practices can create an environment that allows for resilience and growth.
Affirmation Under Attack: How Can We Support Queer and Trans Youth
Schools are increasingly on the front lines of conflict over queer, two-spirit, and transgender rights. What happens when the adults around a child or youth do not accept marginalized genders and sexualities? This free webinar, “Affirmation Under Attack: How Can We Support Queen and Trans Youth” proposes five strategies to support the emotional and physical health, safety, and well-being of queer and trans youth.
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Working with Children and Youth Survivors of War and Torture
In 2019, Canada supported the resettlement of 30,082 refugees and continues to welcome thousands of refugee families each year to help them build a new life (UNHCR). Displaced and forced to flee their homes, these families have experienced hardship and trauma due to violence, war, poverty, and persecution. In this webinar, participants will have the opportunity to examine the different factors that impact the mental health of children and youth survivors and how to support their post-migration settlement using an anti-oppressive approach.
Trauma Update: Addressing Critical Elements When Working with Traumatized Children and Youth
Recognized trauma-expert, Geraldine Crisci will address current issues related to assessing and treating trauma in children and youth that many clinicians and other staff are facing. Geraldine has 35 years’ experience as a private practitioner specializing in trauma assessment and treatment and has developed protocols, clinical programs and trainings utilized by many sectors. She will speak to issues that are sure to resonate with professionals working with children and youth.
