Education

Changing how children and families struggle with complex traumatic stress starts with changing how practitioners understand and treat trauma.

Educating clinicians on the research, science, and narratives around trauma is essential to developing the best treatment plans for families who have experienced chronic trauma. When clinicians feel prepared to face the symptoms and effects of trauma in their clients' lives, it bolsters client-practitioner collaboration and effectiveness of treatment. Professional development and teaching clinical students is an integral aspect in how FAM-TREAT and other organizations address the demand for trauma-informed care.

The Trauma Education Connection Initiative, through Trauma Adapted Family Connections (TA-FC), provides an opportunity for Advanced Year Clinical Concentration students to gain additional expertise in trauma-informed practice. 

The TECI program is intended to enrich the student’s program of study with integrated content and skills in evidence based trauma treatment practice. This area of treatment practice training may well enhance the employability of MSW graduates and provide them with an advantage in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

TECI integrates classroom and field experiences by linking the following components:

1. Clinical elective trauma treatment course which introduces the Core Concepts of Child Trauma Treatment
2. Child trauma treatment training that includes attending a 2 day intensive skills based training in an evidence based trauma treatment method
3. An advanced year field placement where actual experience using the method and supervision with a field supervisor trained in this modality

For information about TECI contact Dr. Collins, trauma@ssw.umaryland.edu.

The University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW) offers continuing professional education for licensed social workers, licensed counselors and psychologists in the state of Maryland. Topics range from Substance Use Disorder to Financial Social Work to Leadership and Management. The Office of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) at UMSSW is the largest Social Work Continuing Education Program in the nation. Clinicians from other states should check with their licensing board to see if UMSSW's CE program is applicable to them. 

Active courses: https://umbsswcpe.ce21.com/

UMSSW's CPE program: https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/cpe/about-us/

UMSSW's certificate program: https://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/cpe/certificate-programs/

Clinicians can also view the NCTSN Learning Center for continuing education below.

Child-Parent Psychotherapy Training

https://childparentpsychotherapy.com/providers/training/lc/request-training/ 

18-month training for large systems (government departments, health care insurance organizations, etc.) and agencies to help children aged 0-5 who have been through scary or stressful events. 

 

National Initiative for Trauma Education and Workforce Development (NITEWD)

https://nitewd.unc.edu/

NITEWD was created at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to close the knowledge gap in the provision of effective services to clients who are affected by trauma, particularly for Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities. Click here to go directly to the online course.

 

NCTSN Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT)

https://www.nctsn.org/resources/child-welfare-trauma-training-toolkit 

A free resource from NCTSN for anyone at any level/role wishing to add trauma-informed knowledge and skills into child welfare organizational cultures. Does not offer any certificates or CEs.