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Life is hard. Sometimes things happen that overwhelm our ability to cope and fully process these experiences. These experiences are often labeled as trauma, though we often fail to recognize them in our own journey.
Many individuals struggle with the impact of these difficult experiences. The struggle often shows up in our offices and homes as difficulties with connections to others or behavioral concerns. When we understand the neuroscience of trauma, we can connect the science to the challenges facing many of our students, colleagues, and even our own family members are facing in their day-to-day lives.
As educators, we are being asked to build the workforce of the future. In order to meet that high calling, we must leverage the connection between resilience and building that productive workforce for tomorrow.
Resilience is building strategies that help us each adapt to the challenges we face and build a stronger toolkit of responses. Some call these soft skills or people skills. Whatever label you choose, these are the skills that a 21st-century workforce needs. Research has shown that building resilience can help a person overcome the difficulties from the past and move into a place of healthier relationships and growth.
Join us for these courses to explore how we each play a role in building a more compassionate world and a workforce that will help our communities and families thrive.
Course 1
Course 1
Trauma-Informed Campus and Classroom
Trauma-Informed Campus and Classroom
This trauma-informed certification course helps us learn how to deal with the impact of trauma and create strategies to create resilience. This knowledge opens another vital path to creating equity for our students and builds a workforce prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
The key objective of this Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) six-hour course is to provide information about identifying and responding to difficult situations with evidence-based resilience strategies when working with an audience whose history with traumatic experiences may not be known.
Course 2
Course 2
Creating a Trauma-Supportive
Campus and Classroom
Creating a Trauma-Supportive
Campus and Classroom
This dynamic, 6-hour course will help to transform your classroom, office, department, or family through resilience-based strategies.
Using trauma-informed principles, the course teaches individuals to create the positive environment that is essential to lasting success systematically. Dozens of strategies and promising approaches utilized by some of the nation’s finest trauma-informed practitioners will be shared.
NOTE: Attendees must first take, complete, and be certified as Trauma Informed through Course 1 before taking Course 2.
What Course Attendees are Saying...
What Course Attendees are Saying...
“Excellent facilitator! One of the most engaging speakers I've heard in a long time, particularly on a challenging platform like Zoom. Excellent material and content, as well.”
“Great facilitator, very well-organized, appealing visual materials, good andragogy & good job of making complex information accessible.”
“The presenter was FABULOUS!! The subject is VERY timely!”
“Relevant personally and professionally”
“The trainer was fantastic, she made it relevant to all attending and made me want to stay on the webinar even though it was a long meeting.”
As a result of this training….”I plan to be more compassionate, ask more questions, listen more and never assume in order to be able to better serve my clients.”
Meet Your Trainer
Meet Your Trainer
Laura J. Clark is a Master Trainer with the Community Resilience Initiative and the owner of LJC Consulting, LLC. She also currently serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Success and Professional Development and the Executive Director of Virginia’s Community Colleges Student Success Center.
A lifelong educator and learner, Laura began her career in early childhood education and working with under-resourced families. Her 20 years in higher education have focused on helping students meet their goals and equipping other higher education professionals to do the same.
She has worked with international, under-resourced, and historically marginalized student populations. She is a fearless advocate for creating welcoming places where everyone can chase their dreams. As a certified trainer with CRI, she has equipped thousands higher education professionals to be trauma-informed individuals and how to create spaces of safety and belonging.
Laura is a first-generation college student who earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science in Counseling and Human Development with a specialization in Student Affairs Administration from Radford University.
She enjoys life with her partner, her lovely 16-year-old daughter, and two rescue kittens. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, designing and building sets for stage productions, crafting, watching hockey, and baking.
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