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).  PLEASE READ ALL INFORMATION CAREFULLY BEFORE REGISTERING AND PRINT THIS PAGE FOR REFERENCE. 

TRCC TESTIMONIALS VIDEO - Listen to what June 2017 Graduates of the Program Said About It

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:

12/6-12/7/17, 8:30am-4:15pm – Modules 1-2: 2-day Foundational Training (Lunch 12-1pm on your own)

1/4/18, 9:00am-3:15pm – Module 3: "Where it all Begins: Trauma Informed Assessment"  (9am-12:15pm) followed by 2 hours consultation (1:15-3:15pm) 

2/8/18, 9:00am-3:15pm – Module 4: "The Top Five Resilience Factors and You:  Building Resiliency in Those We Serve and Ourselves"  (9am-12:15pm) followed by 2 hours consultation (1:15-3:15pm) 

3/8/18, 9:00am-3:15pm – Module 5: "Lying, Manipulating and Stealing, Oh My! Looking for Dopamine in all the Wrong Places:Interventions for Biologically Based Fear Responses"  (9am-12:15pm) followed by 2 hours consultation (1:15-3:15pm)

4/12/18, 9:00am-3:15pm – Module 6: "Bringing Hope Home:The Three R’s of Successful Trauma Resolution" (9am-12:15pm) followed by 2 hours consultation (1:15-3:15pm)

5/10/18, 9:00am -3:15pm – Module 7:"Trauma Informed Supervision and Administration: Promoting Client Care and Self Care in a Trauma Informed Workplace"  (9am-12:15pm) followed by 2 hours consultation (1:15-3:15pm)

6/7/18, 9:00am-4:00pm – Module 8: "Putting it All Together:Relational and Sensory Based Interventions for Trauma Responsive Care" (9am-12:15pm) followed by 2 hours consultation and test.

Upon completion of training and consultation hours, providers will complete a competency test and submit an application.  Initial 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.  Membership is completed separately. Link to membership can be found on our Members page: www.tristatetraumanetwork.org/members.          

Fees: $800 for Full Certification Series, Modules 1-8, AND Cetification Test and Application. If not taking test and applying for certification, cost is $700 for the Series. No TTN Member discounts are allowed for this Series due to membership being a requirement to participate. 

*Note: Test and Application fee of $100 can be paid separately after completion of Series.  There is also a Payment Plan available to make the $800 payment in 4 installments. Please email to set this up. 

*CEUs are being provided for the training components only.  IN Category 1 and OH Counselor, Social Work, and MFT CEUs have been obtained for the sessions already.  Other CEUs will be applied for as necessary depending on the CEUs requested by the partiicpants in this cohort. (See Registration Form)

Feel free to email with any questions.  

The 2017-2018 Trauma-Responsive Care Certification series is limited to 60 clinicians.  Registration will close when capacity is reached or on November 30th, 2017, whichever occurs sooner.  Register Now!