Community Resilience Initiative
This course takes place live in person at Aramark STAR Complex in rooms 126/128 Street Address: 1816 N 15th St, Philadelphia, PA 19121 on Friday, April 18, 2025 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST.
Empower your teaching journey by embracing the transformative power of Trauma-Informed Educator Micro-Credential Training. This unique program emerges from a pioneering collaboration between Community Resilience Initiative and the University of the Incarnate Word Occupational Therapy Doctorate Program. It offers an unparalleled opportunity for educators to delve into the critical intersection of trauma, learning, and psychological resilience.
Understanding the profound impact that trauma can have on a student's learning journey is crucial in today's educational landscape. This training equips educators with expert knowledge, practical skills, and a certification that underscores their commitment to fostering nurturing, supportive, and resilient learning environments.
Participants will gain insights into the neuroscience and psychology that inform trauma-informed practices, learning to apply strategies that promote emotional regulation, safety, and healing relationships within the classroom. This program is not just professional development—it's a commitment to transforming educational spaces into sanctuaries where every student can thrive.
Ideal for educators, counselors, and administrators, this training marks a step towards a future where education not only imparts knowledge but also heals, empowers, and fosters resilience. Join this vital mission and become a catalyst for change in your educational community. Your journey to making a meaningful difference in the lives of students starts with the Trauma Informed Educator Micro-Credential Training.
You will gain access to the course materials 2 days prior to the course start date at midnight. If you have never logged into LMS Checkout before you will first need to create a password here. Then log in here and launch the course. If you have any technical questions please contact Tom Dawson at tom@knowledgedash.com.
- Teacher: Rick Griffin
This is a Pre-Conference Offering on October 16, 2025
This course will take place in person at,1810 N Greene Street, Spokane, Washington, 99217 from 8:30pm to 3:30pm PST.
(1/2 hour lunch provided)
Build a strong foundation in trauma-informed practices and resilience with CRI's KISS framework (Knowledge, Insight, Strategies, and Structure). This course guides you through our approach to translating theory into practical application of evidence-based resilience strategies. You will explore the foundational NEAR sciences (Neuroscience, Epigenetics, ACE Studies, and Resilience), understand the vital link between Knowledge and Insight ("Beneath Behavior"), and learn core strategies to enhance your ability to support others. The central goal is to provide you with the knowledge and evidence-based resilience strategies to effectively identify and respond to trauma, even when an individual’s history is unknown.
- Teacher: Penny Capko
This is a Pre-Conference Offering on October 16, 2025
This course will take place in person at,1810 N Greene Street, Spokane, Washington, 99217 from 8:30am to 3:30pm PST.
(1/2 hour lunch provided)
Self-Regulation for Early Learners is a curriculum for the supportive adults in children’s lives and for the children themselves. It uses trauma informed strategies and practices to teach people of all ages how to use their smart bodies to experience:
- Relaxation
- Regulation
- Stress relief
- Optimal learning
- Playful connections with others
- Positive mental and physical development (for children).
- Teacher: Teresa Posakony
This is a Pre-Conference Offering on October 16, 2025
This course will take place in person at,1810 N Greene Street, Spokane, Washington, 99217 from 8:30pm to 3:30pm PST.
(1/2 hour lunch provided)
This hands-on workshop will help participants frame their own resilience initiatives by examining their communities from the perspective of social determinants of health.
This 6-hour, hands-on workshop will help participants frame their own community initiatives, whereby the community may be anything from a small group to a large organization. The workshop is not meant to create a fully fleshed work plan, as each community is different. Instead, participants will elevate questions and concepts of individual resilience to a community-wide level. They will examine their communities from the perspective of social determinants of health. Who in the community is present at the table to identify the risk factors present? Who makes the decisions, and who is at the receiving end? Are participants’ ideas of what needs to change in a community based on a limited personal scope of vision, or are they aligned with the views of those affected by the outcomes?
Communities are living systems, which is why linear approaches to addressing adversities often do not bring the desired results. This workshop uses the salmon cycle as a living systems model. As an indicator species, salmon teaches us a lot about survival, about safety and connection. This workshop’s goal is to provide a foundation and nourishing framework for enriching our communities now and in the future.
- Teacher: Rebeckah Turner