Helper’s Trauma Professional Learning Community: Session 2

This Professional Learning Community for Addressing Helper’s Trauma is a professional development community for youth workers focused on understanding, identifying, and addressing the trauma helper’s in the community education field and school setting experience.

Please fill out this brief application and take the pre-assessment for us to learn a little about you and gauge your trauma knowledge.

There will be a two-hour introduction session about trauma generally. The material covered in this session will be determined by the pre-assessment. In addition, there will be three other two-hour sessions that will focus on learning, implementing, and reflecting on the use of the helper’s trauma tool and refining the tool. This opportunity will also include reflection activities for the participants to complete between sessions. The tool consists of techniques for youth workers to help mitigate the impacts of helper’s trauma.

The two goals for this community are:
1. Aid youth workers on practicing self-care in a trauma-informed manner in order for them to be fully present with their young people.
2. Assist partners with refining Helper’s Trauma Professional Learning Community and tool.

Desired Applicants
This Helper’s Trauma Professional Learning Community is for anyone that works with young people including full-time, part-time, and volunteer staff in schools (i.e., teachers, social workers, nurses, paraprofessionals, security) and staff in community education spaces (i.e., before school, after school, summer, weekend, and mentoring programs, libraries, etc.). All trauma knowledge levels are welcome. Only 12 participants will be accepted in this cohort. Each applicant must be able to commit to all 4 sessions and reflection between sessions. Participants will receive $100 for full participation in the program.

January 30, 2020 is the last day for applications to be submitted and received for full consideration.

Program Dates
The Helper’s Trauma Professional Learning Community will take place in the Homewood community (location TBA). The tentative time is 10:30a-12:30p and the tentative dates are:

Session 1: February 13th
Session 2: February 20th
Session 3: February 27th
Follow Up Session: April 2nd

Click here to learn more and to register.

This program is sponsored by Remake Learning (and the Grable Foundation), Allegheny Partners for Out of School Time (APOST), ELIE Circle, and the Homewood Children’s Village. Learn more at remakelearning.org, afterschoolpgh.org, eliecircle.com, and hcvpgh.org.

If you have any questions about the application please contact Debralyn Woodberry-Shaw at eliecircle@gmail.com.

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