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 […]
Helper’s Trauma Professional Learning Community: Session 1
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 […]
Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
Fri, February 22, 2019 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania 1250 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15230 The compassion many of us feel for those we help can affect us in both positive and negative ways. Overcoming Compassion Fatigue is designed to encourage caregivers and helping professionals to invest the time […]
Raising the Bar on Staff Supports: Building Staff SEL Skills
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST A program culture that supports adult SEL skill growth is essential for creating youth SEL growth because cultivating SEL skills requires a higher level of emotional and intellectual engagement of staff. In order for youth to have high quality SEL experiences in youth programs, staff have […]
Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
Fri, November 16, 2018, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1250 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15230 The compassion many of us feel for those we help can affect us in both positive and negative ways. Overcoming Compassion Fatigue is designed to encourage caregivers and helping professionals to invest the time […]
Don’t Be a Trigger: Trauma-Informed Care Approach to Working with Children
November 14th, 10AM-12PM Our past experiences – personal, familial, societal – influence our brain development and shape how we interpret and respond to the world. Sometimes adults do not recognize how these experiences manifest as behaviors and they unintentionally harm children. This introductory session is designed to change your approach to the behaviors children exhibit […]
Everybody Integrative Massage: Healing the Body from Trauma Workshop
Learn about the physiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and why the often confusing symptoms of trauma come to be. Together we will learn about and practice a range of body-based self care strategies for managing the symptoms of trauma and chronic stress including meditation, self-massage and acupressure, and aromatherapy. February 12th, 7-9PM KST’s Alloy […]