This lab will give participants hands-on approaches to use to help clients work through a variety of trauma issues.
About this Event

Trauma Lab

January 3rd, 2025 from 1:00 PM to 4:15 PM EST

Note

This course is offered i via Zoom. You will receive additional instructions and a Zoom link in your confirmation email and also one week before the training. We will send another reminder 24 hours before the session starts. They will be sent by [email protected] at Institute for Human Services. You may want to add it to your contact list to ensure the email comes through. Please check in the spam folder in case you don’t receive the first email. Sometimes employers’ firewalls and filtering services block communication from unrecognizable email addresses. We advise you include an alternative email address to prevent that.

About the Course

NOTE: This training is a condensed version of our previous 6-hour multi-session training.

Our world is hazardous, and kids are often caught in the crossfire. Whether the crisis is from child abuse, entry into foster care, a community shooting, a parent’s death or incarceration, this lab will provide hands-on approaches that participants can use to help clients work through traumatic issues.

Trauma Lab is designed to help you develop Learning Bridges—hands-on practical approaches that can be used in clinical and non-clinical settings to help children and youth process their trauma without using many words. For example, hand them a pencil and ask them to break it. The client may be able to relate their trauma experiences to the very real, tangible broken pencil. At that point, they may be better able to process the effects of trauma in their life. End that same session with a broken pencil by having them write or draw something and help them see that trauma does not ruin everything.

This training is appropriate for counselors, social workers, psychologists, other helping professionals, and foster caregivers working with children and youth who have experienced life-altering traumatic events. Participants will acquire helpful tools to better support the healing journey for those who have been traumatized.

Objectives

Participants will be able to

Identify practical strategies for guiding children and youth through their trauma issues.
Develop skills to work through quiet and/or resistant youth.
Explore how to move beyond dialogue by using active learning techniques with traumatized children and youth.

Continuing Education

This training is approved for 3 Social Work CE Credits. See additional information below.

Institute for Human Services, provider #1802, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.

To earn CE credits, participants must attend the session in its entirety, remain on camera, complete an evaluation, and pay the $15 CE fee at the time of registration.

The Institute for Human Services understands that circumstances arise that may prevent registrants from attending a pre-paid training. A training and continuing education credit (minus Eventbrite platform and any credit card fees) will be refunded if a registrant cancels their training attendance on the registration platform at least 7 days in advance of the training event. If the registrant does not cancel within 7 days of the continuing education session, no refund will be issued.

Questions? Email [email protected] or contact our office at 614-251-6000 Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT. If you need additional accessibility supports please contact us in advance of the training to make necessary arrangements.

Reminder: This virtual workshop will take place from 1p.m. – 4:15 p.m. (EST) and has two short breaks built in. Please make note of the time zone.

Jim Still-Pepper, MA, LSW

Jim Still-Pepper is the Director of Community Based Clinical Services at Allwell Behavioral Health Services Inc., a community mental health center where he has worked for over 3 decades striving to get clinical services out of the centers, and into the community.

Jim is the founder of Still Light Seminars LLC, a motivational training and consulting company; he has trained nationally and internationally focusing on the mental health, and care of, children and adolescents.

He is also an adjunct instructor in Ashland University’s Founders School of Continuing Education. He develops online courses around behavioral interventions and understanding the mental health of students.

Jim has also authored or co-authored 7 books and has written almost 100 articles. On a side note, he has had numerous poems published, and his artwork and photography have appeared in galleries, magazines, and on greeting cards.