Community Resilience Initiative
This course took place live over zoom on May 6 & 7 from 8:30 am-11:00 AM PST
Build a strong, practical foundation in trauma-informed care and resilience through CRI’s KISS framework—Knowledge, Insight, Strategies, and Structure. This course bridges theory and real-world application, equipping you with evidence-based resilience strategies you can apply immediately.
You will explore the foundational NEAR Sciences—Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience—while deepening your understanding of the vital connection between knowledge and insight. Through this lens, you will learn core practices that strengthen your capacity to support others through effective self-regulation and co-regulation.
At its core, this course empowers you to confidently recognize and respond to trauma—even when an individual’s history is unknown—while fostering resilience, safety, and meaningful connection in every interaction.
*This is the pre-requisite for the Train the Trainer and must be completed prior to attending the course.
Trainers: Penny Capko and Becky Turner
- Teacher: Penny Capko
- Teacher: Rebeckah Turner
This dynamic mini-course introduces you to the science of trauma and resilience: the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience.
A dynamic self-paced, on-demand course will help to transform your organization, classroom, or family through resilience-based strategies. Using trauma-informed principles, the course teaches individuals to systematically create the positive environment that is essential for lasting success.
Attendees will learn more than 30 strategies and promising approaches utilized by some of the nation’s finest trauma-informed practitioners. This will include strategies to:
- Build a positive culture in the classroom, office, or the family
- Foster resilience through affirming communication
- Create effective regulation skills
- Deliver compassionate and empowering discipline
- Teach others about their own trauma and stress response
- Develop trauma-informed conflict resolution skills
***Attendees for Course 2 must have taken CRI’s Course 1.
This dynamic self-paced, six-part training course introduces you to Community Resilience Initiative’s framework for building resilience, KISS. Knowledge, Insight, Strategies, and Structures describe our learning from theory to practice and how to implement strategies into action. This course includes three groups of topics: the NEAR sciences, a cluster of emerging scientific findings in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience; Beneath Behavior, which uses the knowledge of brain networks to gain insight into the factors that drive behavior; and R.O.L.E.S., CRI’s signature strategy to responding to trauma. The key objective is to provide information about identifying and responding to trauma with evidence-based resilience strategies when working with an audience whose trauma history may not be known.
CEU Information
This training has been approved for 6 (six) CEUs each by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors.
Your Provider Number is #1975-253.
Cost is $20 per course, please make checks payable to Walla Walla University and mail checks to CRI at PO Box 3237, Walla Walla, WA 99362
