Students learn better in trauma-informed environments
Take a class on your own or contact us to learn about group training for your department, school or district.
Why Training?
TRAUMA makes learning hard, trained educators make it easier.
Trauma impacts children’s brains, behavior and socialization skills, making it more difficult for them to focus, follow directions or trust others.
Traditional teaching methods simply don’t work for kids who have suffered chronic trauma like abuse, neglect or abandonment, which the CDC estimates is one out of two kids!
Talk to our Group Sales Team to set up your team, school or district.
What is the right training for me/us?
INDIVIDUAL AND group training for TEAchers, coaches and schools
For teachers, the Intro course with Companion Guide for Educators is a great place to start. It dives into four of the seven principles of trauma-informed care—the impacts of trauma, maximizing felt safety, reducing overwhelming emotions, and managing overwhelming behaviors. The Companion Guide includes self-reflection and group discussion questions to help you process and put the learnings into practice.
For coaches, we recommend the Trauma-informed Leadership course with the Companion Guide for Coaches. This course focuses on applying the principles in a team environment.
Both courses are broken down into short video modules so you can learn at your own pace or use the four-week plan to discuss once per week as a group. Email our Group Sales team to get your school set up.
Training Benefits
UNDERSTAND TRAUMA
- Identify trauma
- Learn the impacts of trauma
- Attachment styles
BUILD SKILLS
- Tools to manage BIG emotions
- Behavior management tools
- Relationship building techniques
TEAM CULTURE
- Empowered, resilient staff
- Better team dynamics
- Healthy, positive workplace
How to get started
THREE EASY WAYS TO START BUILDING A TRAUMA-INFORMED SCHOOL
Try a class
Take the Intro course for Educators or Trauma-informed Leadership for Coaches on your own to start building healthier classrooms and teams.
GET YOUR TEAM ONBOARD
Download our host guide with easy ways to help your team get excited about building a more positive workplace.
CHAT WITH US
Book a free 20-minute chat with Brian, from our Sales team, and he will help you get your team set up to start learning.
BUILD A SAFER, MORE POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE
Understanding trauma helps you get to the root of serious issues like absenteeism, bullying, and violence, and get students on a positive path.
Educational partners and clients
I especially appreciated the scientific data on how trauma changes children's brains physically. They are not choosing to be difficult, they are doing their best. It is our job to do our best for them. This course gives insight into how to do that!".
The pandemic created the need for an online platform to make it easy for students to participate from their home or dorm room. TFW's high-quality learning solution is allowing OVC to better achieve its goal of providing the best possible training to our students.
Very few of us are trained to understand how events like this [trauma] have a real impact on our kids. I wanted our member schools to recognize the urgency to meet the new needs of our students. TFW's podcast series gave us the context we needed and the tools required to help.
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