This 2.5 hour virtual workshop provides an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study, the Impact of ACEs, Brain Development, Results of ACEs , and Resilience.
Workshop Participants Will Learn:
Outcomes and findings of the ACEs study
The impact of ACEs on lifelong health
Definition of toxic stress and its impact on the developing brain
The potential results of ACEs
The importance of resilience and how it is built
Cost: $35 (add $10 to receive 2.5 CEUs)
Student Discount Available: Please send an email to dominika@centerforchildcounseling.org with your name, school, and a request for a 25% student discount code.
There is a saying: “You can’t pour from an empty cup…” If you consider yourself a healer or helper and you constantly GIVE – now it is your time to TAKE! Refill your cup now.
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This 4-hour training is designed to address the stress and various challenges faced by helpers and healers in the medical, mental, and behavioral health professions. The training teaches self-care and resilience building strategies, particularly important as helpers and healers during the COVID-19 crisis showed alarming rates of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and even suicide. Unfortunately, the impact is expected to worsen once the crisis is over as an aftermath of collective trauma.
Burnout is defined as a long-term reaction to occupational stress which involves, particularly, the helping professions. The burnout epidemic is detrimental to client care and may exacerbate the mental health professionals shortage we are experiencing. Burnout can be caused by secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, stress or moral injury. According to several studies, it appears that up to 67% of mental health workers may be experiencing high levels of burnout, with the significant impact of COVID yet to be determined.
The pandemic has impacted mental health on a broad scale. Leading mental health researchers and professionals anticipated an ‘echo pandemic’ after the physical pandemic passed, and we are seeing increased incidences of depression, anxiety, and suicide, escalating the demand for healers and helpers who are supported and mentally healthy themselves to serve our communities .
Exploring ACEs & Their Relationship to Stress and Well-Being
Impacts of Stress
Burnout
Vicarious Trauma
Compassion Fatigue
Challenges Faced by Specific Groups of Helpers/Healers
COVID-19 and the Impact on Helpers/Healers
Self-Care & Resilience Building
Center for Child Counseling is approved through the Florida Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Providers #50-11511.
Suicide is an emotional, overwhelming, and most times scary topic to discuss with anyone, let alone a child.
You, as a parent or caregiver, may be worried about what to do, what to say and whether your efforts are improving the situation or not. It may also seem overwhelming as to how to address the situation, helpful responses and where to look for support and resources. Suicidal ideation or suicide attempts are serious and should never be taken lightly – especially considering there may be a life at risk.
Join us for this free, 45-minute training as we review information that can assist you in early detection, prevention, and intervention as well as ways to be involved and buffer the risk factors against suicide.
Workshop Objectives:
Know and understand the risk factors and warning signs of suicidal ideation and/or a suicide crisis
Learn easy to implement action steps and techniques to respond to a child expressing suicidal ideation
Review a script for responding to a child experiencing a suicidal crisis
Learn how to utilize a suicide safety plan (downloadable/printable plan sheet)
Receive information regarding local and nationwide crisis resources and support
Trying to make sense of the horror that is a school shooting feels difficult to comprehend or put into words.
Take this 65-minute workshop to learn how to cope and address this topic with children.
Attempting to explain it to young children and provide the assurances that they need, seems overwhelming and challenging. Moreover, how can you explain such a horrific event to your children and provide them with the reassurances and support that they need, when you are having a difficult time understanding and making sense of the event yourself?
Workshop Objectives:
Reasons for and how to initiate conversations with children about school shootings.
Helping children process the information and cope.
Managing our own worries and fears as parents/caregivers.
Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and manage what’s going on in our heads and hearts. More specifically, it means being aware of our energy level, thoughts, and feelings that are the result of either external experiences or internal ideas. This awareness can help us decide on appropriate approaches to better manage ourselves, so we can find and execute safe, well thought-out, adaptable behaviors to meet our needs.
Join us for this important training that focuses on the very heart of understanding children and ourselves.
This 40-minute training is designed for parents, caregivers, teachers, and school personnel.
Learning Objectives Include:
Understanding the difference between self-regulation and self-control,
How self-regulation impacts a child’s ability to learn,
The definition of dysregulation and how it is much more than the physical expression or “maladaptive behaviors” that are displayed,
The impact that self-regulation has on the brain, and
Practical ways to help facilitate a child learning self-regulation skills.
Transitions are simply changes — from one activity to another, from one place to another, from one level of energy to another, from daytime activities to nighttime sleep, etc.
We all make these changes constantly throughout the day, and they tend to come very naturally. For children, transitions can be challenging though. The truth is that making transitions takes a lot of brain function and skills — skills a child may not yet have developed.
Take this training to learn how to make transitions easier which, in turn, can make life easier for you as a teacher or caregiver and the children in your life.
This 45-minute training is designed for parents, caregivers, teachers, and school personnel.
In this training you will learn about:
Reasons for difficult transitions for children
Strategies to help children with transitions
Transition activities to facilitate smooth transitions
Mindfulness is simply an awareness of one’s internal states and external surroundings.
It is a conscious choice to be present and aware of moment-to-moment experiences. Human beings have practiced mindfulness in different ways for thousands of years and it is not based on any religion or belief system. There are many ways to practice mindfulness; meditation (the most widely known mindfulness activity) is just one of them.
Join us to learn the value of mindfulness and how it can be effectively used to build stronger, calmer, and happier relationships with the children in your life.
This 45-minute training is designed for parents, caregivers, teachers, and school personnel.
In this training, you will learn about:
The impact of mindfulness on the brain and its benefits for health and wellbeing
Ways to explain mindfulness to children in an age-appropriate way
How mindfulness influences school and home environments
Implementing activities into daily routines that encourage a mindful way of being
A calm down corner is a designated space in a home or classroom which is designed with the sole intention of being a safe space for a child to go to when they feel their emotions are running too high and they need to regain their emotional and physical control.
A calm down corner is equipped with comforting objects and soothing materials that can promote mindfulness, breathing, and reflection.
Join us for a fun and creative training that will help you better understand children and equip them to regulate their emotions and feel secure in their environments.
This 40-minute training is designed for parents, caregivers, teachers, and school personnel.
In this training, you will learn about:
The benefits of creating a calm down corner
How to create a calm down corner
Ways to introduce the calm down corner to children and how to implement them
Burnout is an overwhelming feeling of being exhausted by everything you have to do, while still worrying that you’re not doing enough.
It’s often accompanied by a “I have nothing more to give” sentiment. Burnout is more than stress and more than simply having a bad day (which is natural). There are effective ways to combat burnout, however.
If you’re feeling extremely stressed, this training can help you identify the symptoms of burnout and implement effective and helpful skills to take on the burnout challenge.
This 45-minute training is designed for teachers, and school personnel.
In this training, you will learn about:
The difference between burnout and stress
Signs, symptoms and causes of burnout
Burnout prevention from organization and individual perspectives
Co-regulation involves the back-and-forth exchange between two people as each participant adjusts their emotional state and responses based on the state (also called the ‘arousal level’) of the other person.
It is an interactive experience where both individuals provide moment-to-moment feedback to each other using verbal expressions and body language. This is not just a technique between an infant/child and parent/caregiver; co-regulation can occur between any two people where there is a positive relationship.
Join us for this vital training that will help you better understand your role as an adult in a child’s life and the foundation of communication and trust.
This 40-minute training is designed for parents, caregivers, teachers, and school personnel.
In this training, you will learn about:
The relationship between co-regulation and it’s later impact on self-regulation
Techniques to incorporate serve and return interactions into communication with children and the importance of doing so
Various co-regulation tips, including ages and stages of co-regulation for young children and how to implement this approach
