Peaceful Households provides online and on-site education and training in 
Childhood Trauma and Adversity to meet a wide range of audiences nationwide and across borders.

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Research indicates that childhood trauma can impact an individual throughout their lifetime. This includes how it affects parenting skills which, can perpetuate the cycle of trauma within families. Join Erika as she helps family service providers learn strategies that can help parents address their unresolved trauma and enhance parenting skills using an arts education framework.

Attendees can expect to:

1. Learn about the correlation between the ACE study and parenting skills.

2. Analyze video vignettes to understand the consequences of unresolved trauma

3. Examine arts-based approaches to mitigate unresolved trauma and enhance parenting skills

Research on the effects of childhood trauma (including the recent COVID pandemic) illustrates the importance of resilience as a life skill for overcoming adversity and facing new obstacles. Resilience (also known as psychological flexibility) can be developed throughout life using a process called Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT). Using ACT and a visual process called The ACT Matrix, individuals can develop key skills in self-awareness, self-regulation, perspective-taking, empathy, problem-solving, and relationship building – the core ingredients for resilience.

This training is designed to help equip educators, parents, and leaders with a simple, sustainable, and scalable process to promote psychological flexibility and resilience. Please join us and explore how you can use this tool for building resilience with children, yourself, or within your organization.

We have experienced a stranglehold of sorts during this pandemic, and we have all had to adapt to the swift change of circumstances experiencing traumas together on an individual level. Forced to slow down, stay at home, and isolate, affecting unparalleled mental wellness concerns. Our teachers, students, and families have experienced record high micro-traumas triggering dysregulation and fear.

To be whole is to be healthy as we are bouncing back, this session is an opportunity for teachers, paras, counselors, and family service professionals from all disciplines to identify practical strategies that help with easily triggered dysregulation. We all want to be in a high-trust environment. Participants will leave with strategies that help dysregulation, build trust, and grow connections.

This is an interactive experience, energizing and informative.  Come prepared to participate in a conversation and an experience worth remembering. Interactive experiences have more impact because people learn by doing. Come refill your bucket!

The concept of Trauma-Informed Care seems simple enough, but finding practical ways to use it can be a challenge. Through open discussion and real-world examples, attendees will learn practical ways to implement Trauma-Informed Care in their environment. Participants will learn different ways to relay messages to those around them while keeping the effects of trauma in mind. Join Katelyn as she shares her unique insights and methods for Trauma-Informed Care in a very interactive and thought-provoking session.

This course from Peaceful Households prepares individuals to educate others on childhood trauma and adversity. It incorporates the science, research, resources, and teachings of numerous experts and organizations worldwide. We study and present this information in a way that empowers people to teach others about Childhood Trauma and Adversity.

The course is intended to provide attendees with the knowledge and tools to present this information in a manner that is readily understood by the community, business leaders, policymakers, and professionals from all backgrounds.

CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

• Foundational Teachings of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

  • Brain science

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

  • Resilience – why adversity does not have to be a child’s destiny

  • Trauma-informed practices

  • A common language for all teachings

  • Relationship between trauma/ACEs and the long term impact on social, economic, mental and physical health

  • Generational effects of trauma

• Application of Foundational Teachings

  • Recognizing and responding to Childhood Trauma and Adversity in real world environments (home, work, family & child services, early childhood, child advocacy, education K-12, foster care, juvenile justice and more)

• Tools and Methods for Educating Others

  • PowerPoint training presentation review

  • Addressing specific and diverse audiences

DELIVERABLES

• Advanced instruction and training materials developed by Peaceful Households*

• PowerPoint training slides - complete with notes - for educating others*

• Over 75 references from leading experts and institutions assembled by Peaceful Households for trainers to cite as well as research to advance their own understanding on the topic.

• A unique platform to network and learn from a diverse group of professionals from across the nation.

• Certificate of Training Completion for those that attend all sessions.

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