NASW Virginia Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience Informed Care
Training Program
" I enjoyed it so much that it motivated me to change jobs and spend more time working with trauma clients."
"I liked the format of a mixed live sessions with asynchronous work."
"Allison Jackson is a marvel."--Fall 2020 course attendee
“I’m really struck by how good Allison is as a teacher and how complete this class is. Thanks for offering it through NASW.”--Mary Ann Hanson (June 2021)
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Seventy percent of U.S. adults have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives—often before age 18. The results can be disrupted brain development, adoption of at-risk health behaviors, and increased risk for disease, disability, social problems, and physical and mental illness.
In response, social workers and behavioral health providers must understand the many aspects of trauma as evidenced through the latest research. This program is designed for mental health professionals or advanced graduate students who are actively providing therapeutic services to clients.
In the NASWVA Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience Informed Care training program, you will receive 37.5 hours of in-depth training covering foundational therapeutic skills critical to all client work, especially those clients with histories of violated safety and security. The program will help you learn and integrate evidence-informed trauma and resilience treatment skills into your everyday practices.
Instructor: Dr. Allison Jackson is CEO of Integration Solutions, Inc., a company that provides consultation services, educational programs, and technical assistance to human service organizations and integrated healthcare systems. Specializing in trauma-informed care and training people that resilience is possible when proper information and support is given, her company helps institutions further their practices as they guide people toward healing and recovery. Raised in Richmond, Va., Dr. Jackson has provided leadership development services via behavioral health, education, child welfare, and criminal justice systems for more than 20 years. See her full biography here and watch her TED talk at https://youtu.be/-HG8H4n2j9I.
You will learn:
Transdiagnostic skills (e.g., managing therapeutic alliance and rupture, building motivation, clarifying expectations of treatment, and engaging in collaborative planning)
Knowledge skills [e.g., childhood trauma (ACEs and other types of trauma), impacts on individual attachment style, building next-generation health via community resilience and system change work]
Brain science (e.g., trauma outcomes on the brain)
Identification and assessment skills
Gold-standard treatment (e.g., phase-oriented care)
Impacts of trauma and resilience work on you as a professional (vicarious trauma)
The program is designed to instruct in two ways: live online learning and individualized time focusing on didactic work in each area of content. You will select a time for on-demand learning during an identified week to access or watch video instruction, visual presentations, actual application skills that others have used to enhance achievement of their clients’ goals, practical resources, and more.
After each on-demand training, you will engage in a live virtual class with the instructor, where you can build on learned skills, ask questions, engage in small-group consultation with others, and gain feedback from Dr. Jackson.
The certificate program involves lecture, in-class exercises and discussion, group consultation, and demonstration. While the focus of the course is on applying these knowledge, skills and abilities to clinical practice, some past participants have reported that the course also required them to face and reflect on personal issues that advanced their own healing process.
Breakdown of Certificate Program Contact Hours:
Foundational Course and Collaborative TX Planning (3.5 hours–2 on-demand, 1.5 live)
Trauma Perspective Series (34 hours–20.5 on-demand, 13.5 live)
Key Components of a Trauma-Informed Model for Collaborative Therapeutic Care
Phase-Oriented Treatment Approaches
During the last 20 years research, leading institutions recognize that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common across all populations and provide the basis for many common public health challenges and social problems that adults, children, and families face (Anda & Felitti, 2011). For some individuals, ACEs can result in traumatic memories and responses that become barriers to overall health and well-being.
Trauma-informed models of care are critical in addressing biological alterations, arousal functioning, and relational challenges that can arise as a result of singular or chronic forms of trauma. As Dr. Ricky Greenwald (Greenwald, 2012) explains, trauma can create sore spots around certain experiences. Normally, when this experience happens, a person would have a small response, but with a sore spot, clients respond disproportionally to everyday experiences. These inflated responses often harm clients by preventing them from accessing goals related to health, relationships, and overall quality of life.
Research suggests that phase modeled programs are the standard of care for clients who have experienced trauma (Foa, Keane, & Friedman, 2009). Trauma-informed, phase-oriented models of care focus on clients’ treatment motivation and their progression through the phases based on clients’ readiness for each stage of change. These models usually incorporate three phases of treatment focused on Safety and Stabilization, Reprocessing of Traumatic Memories, and Reintegration (Herman 1992, Janet, 1889).
Using evidence-informed interventions throughout each phase of treatment, clients are encouraged to understand the impact that traumatic events (including, but not limited to, ACEs) have had on their ability to reach their goals, develop skills in achieving safety, become educated on techniques to reduce the physiological impact of past trauma, process their trauma, and feel empowered to harness their strengths to move beyond the barriers their past trauma has created.
Additional Evidence-based Therapeutic Treatment Factors
During the last few decades, clinical research has identified important therapeutic treatment factors that enhance clinical outcomes across client groups. These key factors are the foundation of the Trauma Therapy Certificate: The Resilience Effect™ training program and are integrated into all treatment goals and life planning goals.
Common Factors
It has become widely accepted that certain trans-diagnostic common factors exist in the therapeutic process. These common factors relate to the impact of client and clinician characteristics, relationship factors, motivation, clarity of expectations of treatment, and other ingredients of the therapeutic process common to any psychotherapy, regardless of treatment modality or model. Successful treatment models embrace these factors and incorporate them as part of their foundation.
Valuing the Importance of Feedback
Feedback helps everyone get a better picture of where they are and where they are going. Regular feedback ensures that clients and their support systems are truly heard throughout the therapeutic process. Feedback allows clients, their support systems, and professional(s) to evaluate changes in client progress, strengthen therapeutic alliance, provide more accurate case conceptualizations, and facilitate a deepening in treatment planning discussions (Hatfield & Ogles, 2006).
The NASWVA Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience Informed Care Training Program shares feedback approaches that clinicians can integrate into their assessment and treatment planning process both at the start and end of each treatment session, as well as during the evaluation of discharge planning. Key areas for feedback include motivation for treatment, life satisfaction, and therapeutic alliance. Additional opportunities for feedback are incorporated into the treatment process based on case-specific needs.
Training commitment and dates:
The NASWVA Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience Informed Care Training Program will be comprised of 37.5 hours of online training. This material will be provided over a course of 5 days to participants for a total of 7.5 hours of learning each day. Three days of the content will be delivered via on-demand (prerecorded) webinar and offer video, PowerPoint and resources coupled with quizzes and feedback opportunities to assure learning. Two days of the content will be offered via live webinar on a Learning Management System (Zoom). There will also be a brief introductory session prior at the beginning.
Participants are expected to attend all live webinars at the scheduled date/time. If there is a crisis or emergency that prevents that, a participant will need to work with the instructor to see if make up time and work can be accepted.
For the on-demand portion, participants will be given a set amount of time to view the video, PowerPoint and resources for that section. It is highly recommended that participants complete the on demand work as indicated in the schedule so they can maximize their practice and learning time during live sessions.
Training Dates are:
Friday, April 16 - live session 1 (9:00 am - 9:30 am) Week of April 19-23 - on-demand session 1 Week of April 26 - May 2 - on-demand session 2 Week of May 3-13 - on-demand session 3 Friday, May 14 - live session 2 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm) Friday, May 21 - live session 3 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)
Attendees will earn 37.5 Category I Contact Hours.
Registration Fees - includes CE certificate (emailed after training)
NASW Member $750 Non-Member $950
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 14, 2021
“The NASW Trauma Certification Program led by Dr. Jackson was very informative and presented with skill and candor, which I greatly appreciated. Her openness and honesty allowed me to absorb the material and understand it, and I was able to relate to it and apply it to real-world situations. In addition, the course was expertly organized and taught by someone I consider to be a great leader in the field. I highly recommend both Dr. Jackson and this certification program.”
--Jamie Pettus, PsyD, LCP, Clinical Psychologist, CVHS-Southern Albemarle
“I have attended almost every Allison Jackson training available to me, but I still learned more, made more connections, and feel that I am a better clinician after participating in [this] certificate program. I highly recommend social workers of every level of expertise take the time to earn this certification…. Our patients, organizations, and communities are better served when social workers are not only trauma-informed but trauma specialists.”
--Heather Stone, PhD, LCSW, Behavioral Health Director, CVHS-Health Services
Location
All trainings in this series will be virtual (some live sessions, some on-demand sessions.) Registrants will be sent logins and links prior to each session.
PAYMENT & REFUND POLICY:
If you choose the "Bill Me" option during checkout, please mail payment within 7 days of registering in order to hold your seat. You will receive a confirmation email with your purchase information following checkout; this will serve as your invoice, no other invoices will be provided.
Checks should be made out to NASW Virginia and mailed to:
NASW-VA 4860 Cox Road, Suite 200 Glen Allen, VA 23060
If a registrant cancels more than 10 days before the event, a refund will be issued by check or credit back to your credit card, minus a 10% administrative fee.
If cancelation occurs less than 10 days prior to the event, no refund will be issued but you may request a credit towards a future training to be used within 1 year of the cancelation date. Call the Chapter Office (804-204-1339) to cancel within 10 days of the training. A request for credit may be granted at the discretion of the Executive Director in case of a documented emergency.
DISABILITY ASSISTANCE/SPECIAL NEEDS
Individuals who require assistance under the ADA for participation in this training should contact NASW-VA at least 30 days prior to the start of the training. Please call the Chapter office at 804.204.1339 to discuss your needs or any concerns with a member of the staff.
Children under the age of 18 are not permitted into any NASWVA sponsored trainings or events, without prior written consent by the chapter. For special situations and/or circumstances, please call or email the chapter office.
