Building Asset-Focused Partnerships to Improve Equity (in person reg.)

Module 400: Trauma-Responsive Family Engagement Practices for Educators: Building Asset-Focused Partnerships to Improve Equity

Designed for all professionals working with parents and families of children, this training offers comprehensive resources for building trauma-responsive family engagement in your school or program.

Goals:

• What is family engagement?
• Family engagement versus family involvement
• Understanding state dependent functioning: the importance of maintaining regulation in trauma-responsive environments
• Foundations of high-quality trauma-responsive resilience building foundational principles of family engagement
• Core principals of family engagement

1. Trusting relationships that lead to power sharing partnerships
2. Understanding stress and trauma
3. Establish safety and predictability
4. Provide agency, choice, voice and control

• Introduce some concrete practical strategies to support trauma-responsive family engagement that buffer stress and build resilience
• Father engagement
• Case studies

Objectives:

• Identify 2-4 key strategies to support healing and build resilience with families
• Name which part of the brain shuts down 90% of the time when stress is increased for families
• Identify 1-2 differences between family engagement and family involvement

Presented by the Center for Optimal Brain Integration®

With over 30 years of collective experience, we care about providing services that help humans reach their highest potential. Every training or consultive support, maximizes an opportunity to develop integrated and optimal health. The Center for Optimal Brain Integration® trains, coaches and consults internationally on trauma-responsive practices and social-emotional strategies that build resilience.

This training is led by Julie Kurtz, MS, LMFT, the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Optimal Brain Integration® (COBI). Julie trains and speaks on trauma, resilience and social-emotional resilience building across the country.

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Time: 9:00 - 11:00 am

Location: First 5 Shasta, 393 Park Marina Circle, Redding

Who should attend? Shasta County providers of service to children ages 0-5, parents/primary caregivers of children ages 0-5, mental health clinicians, and pregnant women

Includes

• Presentation materials

This free training is open to Shasta County parents/caregivers, pregnant women, and providers serving children ages 0-5 and their families. This training is brought to you by First 5 Shasta whose aim is to provide the highest quality opportunities for young children, pregnant women and providers of service to children 0-5.

Course meets the qualification for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs and associates as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Lunch and breaks are not included.

Cancelation Policy

To cancel registration, please email mjohnson@first5shasta.org 48 hours in advance of the scheduled training start time.

Grievance Policy

Please email mjohnson@first5shasta.org with a statement of grievance regarding any of these trainings.

Continuing Education

Certificates: In exchange for a completed evaluation form, you will receive your CE certification via email within 4 business days from HealYourHeartTherapy@gmail.com You must be present for all of the training to receive the credit.

Heal Your Heart Therapy (Provider #1032324) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education LMFTs, LCSWs and LPCCs.