2017 Trauma Responsive Care Certification Series 

The Tristate Trauma Network is committed to increasing the practice of trauma-responsive care in our community.  Trauma-responsive care goes beyond understanding trauma and its effects to providing interventions that seek to alleviate trauma symptoms and lead to a higher level of functioning.  TTN has chosen to partner with Finding Hope Consulting, LLC to provide its first type of Trauma Certification to practitioners:  Trauma-Responsive Care Certification (TRCC).  This will not be the only type of Trauma Certification offered by the Tristate Trauma Network.  Our goal is to develop and provide a variety of certifications over time to meet the needs of different providers.  PLEASE READ ALL INFORMATION CAREFULLY BEFORE REGISTERING. 

Finding Hope Consulting’s lead trainers, Mary Vicario and Carol Hudgins-Mitchell, have been providing training and consultation to practitioners and organizations in the local community for over 25 years.  They have demonstrated their ability to translate cutting-edge neuroscience into easy-to-use, practical interventions.   A few comments regarding their August training for the TTN:·        “This training ROCKS!  Every agency needs this training!”·          “The Presenters are Great!”·          “Attending the training has provided resources and knowledge that encourages me to attain more training and education.”·          “ I am a new clinician and this was not covered in grad school.  Everyone should have to  take this course for professional growth and harm reduction.” 

Finding Hope Consulting, LLC was founded by Mary Vicario in 2007 to address a training gap by translating the latest research on the neuroscience of trauma into everyday interventions for those working with individuals with complex trauma of all ages and ability levels. Finding Hope Consulting, LLC is an expert in trauma responsive care that trains and consults nationally and internationally.  Since 1992, Ms. Vicario and Ms. Hudgins-Mitchell have studied and participated in on-going continuing education at Harvard Medical School and with Harvard professors at Wellesley College, where they study and present.  Finding Hope consultants attend ongoing intensive training with the leading experts in trauma such as Bessel van der Kolk, Bruce Perry, Stephen Porges and Herbert Benson.  They hold certificates in Traumatic Stress Studies from The Child Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute in Brookline Massachusetts and are Certified Trauma Specialists. Finding Hope brings the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” to a whole new level with best practice grants, training and consulting with court systems, residential facilities, mental health and foster care agencies, boards of Developmental Disabilities (DD), and educational service centers to support communities in developing trauma responsive services that bridge systems of care and fosters natural supports in clinicians and those they serve.  Finding Hope believes organizations need to treat their staff the way they want their staff to treat their clients making self care a component of each training and consultation. Finding Hope is committed to remaining on the cutting edge of brain science research to provide tools to spread healing, resiliency and hope throughout communities across the globe.  

The “theory to practice” modules they will be providing as part of the Trauma-Responsive Care Certification include consultation to help practitioners apply their learning in daily interactions with those they serve.  This is not a “train and go” certification model.  It is a, learn, practice, receive feedback, and master model.  Below are the 8 modules that practitioners will participate in.  Except for the initial 2-day foundational training, all modules will be followed by 2 hours of in-person, group consultation.  A total of 30 hours of training and 12 hours of consultation will be provided for certification candidates.  See module descriptions below. 

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Schedule of Trainings and Consultation:

1/5-1/6/17, 9:00am-4:00pm – Modules 1-2: 2-day Foundational Training "Facilitating Healing, Resiliency, and Hope Parts I & II" (Lunch 12-1pm on your own) 

2/6/17, 9:00am-3:00pm – Module 3: "Where it all Begins: Trauma Informed Assessment"  (9am-noon) followed by 2 hours consultation (1-3pm) 

3/6/17, 9:00am-3:00pm – Module 4: "The Top Five Resilience Factors and You:  Building Resiliency in Those We Serve and Ourselves"  (9am-noon) followed by 2 hours consultation (1-3pm) 

4/3/17, 9:00am-3:00pm – Module 5: "Lying, Manipulating and Stealing, Oh My! Looking for Dopamine in all the Wrong Places:Interventions for Biologically Based Fear Responses"  (9am-noon) followed by 2 hours consultation (1-3pm)

5/1/17, 9:00am-3:00pm – Module 6: "Bringing Hope Home:The Three R’s of Successful Trauma Resolution" (9am-noon) followed by 2 hours consultation (1-3pm)

6/5/17, 9:00am -3:00pm – Module 7:"Trauma Informed Supervision and Administration: Promoting Client Care and Self Care in a Trauma Informed Workplace"  (9am-noon) followed by 2 hours consultation (1-3pm)

6/19/17, 9:00am-3:00pm – Module 8: "Putting it All Together:Relational and Sensory Based Interventions for Trauma Responsive Care" (9am-noon) followed by 2 hours consultation (1-3pm)

Upon completion of training hours and consultation hours, providers will complete a competency test and submit an application.  Certification will be good for 2 years.  After the first 2 years, certification can be renewed annually by submitting evidence of 6 CEU hours related to trauma-specific or trauma-informed care and renewal of membership with the Tristate Trauma Network.

Two levels of Certification are being provided:

1) Trauma-Responsive Care Certification - Level 1 - for BA level or non-clinical professionals

2) Trauma- Responsive Care Certification - Level 2 - for MA level clinicians (minumum of a Master's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related field.) Independent Licensure is not required for participation in this program.   

 *All Candidates must be part of a TTN Member Agency or be an Individual Professional Member in order to enroll.           

Fees: $800 for Full Certification Series, Modules 1-8, which includes cost of competency test. ($680 for those who have already completed the 2-day foundational training "Facilitating Healing, Resiliency, and Hope Parts I & II" held in August 2016 - choose this payment option when registering)  

 Application fee = $70 at time of application if not already a TTN Individual Professional Member. Application fee is paid separately after completion of Series.  

CEUs are being provided for the training components.  IN Category 1, KY Social Work, and OH Counselor, Social Work, and MFT CEUs have been obtained for the January sessions already.  

This is a new program.  Feel free to email with any questions.  

 

The 2017 Trauma-Responsive Care Certification series is limited to 50 clinicians.  Registration will close when capacity is reached or on December 30, 2016, whichever occurs sooner.  Register Now!