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2021 Trauma and Resilience Virtual Conference - Starr Commonwealth 2021 Trauma & Resilience Virtual Conference Virtual trainings for continuing education and certification at a greatly reduced rate REGISTER TODAY! July 19-23, 2021 | $199 all-access pass Starr's all-access conference pass will provide you or your staff: 20 virtual sessions delivered in focused topic...

Starr's 2021 Trauma & Resiliency Virtual Conference starts today! We are so proud to bring you 20 incredible sessions to transform the lens through which you view and react to childhood behavior.

There's still time to register! Earn more than 30 continuing education credits and fast-track your certification.

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Domestic Violence Assessments & Screening

How do we create safety while empowering survivors and their families to make decisions that affect their day-to-day lives? In this session, we will address the impact of domestic violence in communities and provide concrete tools to empower survivors and their families to stay safe in clinical, school, and community settings.

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Coaching Through Change: Supporting the Mindset Shift

Learn to support colleagues with shifting their mindsets with regards to trauma-informed and resilience-focused practices. This step can be one of the most critical steps for making lasting changes within an organization. Mindset shift is also the most difficult step for many people.

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Su***de Prevention & Assessments: Empowering Advocates in the COVID-19 Era

This session is designed to assist helping professionals with identifying risks of su***de among children, adolescents and adults – and provide strategies to foster precaution and contribute to prevention.

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Navigating Grief and Loss: Tools and Considerations for Child Caring Professionals

In this session, Dominique Mason will present new ways to support grieving children – regardless of the professional setting. She will introduce various loss experiences that cause grief reactions in children, provide tools to successfully identify and address such grief-related reactions, and review how loss can impact a professional’s relationship with their students/clients.

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What Does it Mean to be Woke in the Midst of Racism, COVID-19, Police Brutality and Trauma?

The COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing police brutality toward Black Americans have highlighted the differing experiences of White and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) people in this country. This session will focus on the pandemic, police brutality, white privilege, white supremacy culture, and the trauma and grief that result from the current reality. The presenters will also discuss what can be done by individuals and within organizations to ensure that both employees and those they serve experience full diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Courageous Conversations: Changing the Stigma of Feedback Amongst Colleagues

In this session, we will discuss how to have courageous conversations with our co-workers. We will break down the term “Feedback” and discuss the stigma attached to it and how this stigma prevents us from empowering one another to grow professionally. We will discuss the components of and how to have a courageous conversation not only with a co-worker, but also with a supervisor or administrator.

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Zoomin' over Zoom: Adapted Strategies with Children Ages Zero to Six via Telehealth

In this session, we explore adapting strategies for engagement and treatment with young children from zero to six years old, over the telehealth platform. We discuss the unique and effective characteristics of the tandem approach to “co-treatment,” which enhances the developmentally-appropriate, play-based approaches we know help our young children heal. In this session, we include recorded demonstrations of some activities conducted over telehealth, to assist participants with understanding how the developmentally-informed strategies appear in practice.

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How to Engage with Families Effectively

In this panel discussion, a team of Starr professionals will discuss reasons families may come across as resistant to engagement and explore what dynamics may be driving this resistance – to help participants identify what may really be happening. The panel will also explore how to be curious and empathic with families, in addition to the systemic issues that cause resistance to services.

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The Military Child: Stories of Trauma & Resilience

In this session by Lachanda Garrison, DoDEA Teacher of the Year, participants will learn more about the adversities, traumas, and resiliency that military-connected children and families experience. Participants will hear first-hand stories on what it is like to be a military child, student, spouse, service member, and educator. Participants will also learn different tools, supports, and organizations that can be used to support our military children and families.

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Silver Linings, Hope, and a Return to Better

In this introductory and keynote session, Elizabeth Carey and Dr. Caelan Soma will share and celebrate how child caring practitioners and organizations like Starr Commonwealth, and the many they serve, rose to the occasion to create countless silver linings amidst the increased stress and heartache caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, racial disparities, and more.

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LGBT Youth: From Trauma to Belonging (2nd Edition) - Starr Commonwealth NOTE: When purchasing for others, check the box below. Upon completion of your order, you will receive an email with instructions on how to enroll users. OR, add the eCourse to your cart below.

Starr Commonwealth's 2021 Virtual Conference session details are now live! Click below to read details on this year's session offerings.

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How trauma-informed is your school? Starr's Trauma-Informed Schools Questionnaire (TISQ) measures your school staff members’ perceptions of the frequency to which they individually, and the school collectively, exhibit trauma-informed, resilience-focused knowledge and behaviors.

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Streaming now on StarrPASS: Resilient Educators 8 with Dr. Soma

Specials/Electives teachers, parents, & one-minute interventions

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10 Simple Ways To Build Resilience in Students in These Difficult Times Help them find hope in challenging experiences.

10 Things About Childhood Trauma Every Teacher Needs To Know For children who have experienced trauma, learning can be a big struggle.

Mendocino County Office of Education is on StarrPASS! Did you know your organization can bulk-subscribe your staff and save? Start streaming today by contacting [email protected]!

Signing yourself up for StarrPASS? Gain access to 60+ hours of trauma-informed content at watch.starr.org.

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Introducing Starr Commonwealth's Resilient Schools Project Whitepaper - Starr Commonwealth Starr Commonwealth’s flagship Resilient Schools Project is an evidence-informed and comprehensive systems approach to establishing a culture of resilience and trauma-informed practices in K-12 school buildings and districts nationwide. The goal is to equip school professionals with knowledge, trai...

CARES Act dollars support Michigan children's mental health through state's Education Equity Fund 328 Michigan public school districts and charter schools have received dollars from the new state fund to support students' mental health and bridge the digital divide.

Register today for Starr's 2021 Trauma & Resiliency Virtual Conference!

This powerful virtual conference is designed for helping professionals who work with children, adolescents, and families including, but not limited to: teachers, school administration and staff, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and hospice workers. We hope you and/or your staff will join us the week of July 19th, and that you walk away feeling even more Driven to Heal the children, families, and communities you serve!

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Streaming now: Clinician's Corner with Gabi Mueller.

Successful Telehealth Strategies and Screening for Possible Domestic Violence

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Learn more about the Crisis of Belonging facing our LGBT+ youth, and how you can empower every student—every day with Starr's eCourse.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is triggering a wide variety of emotional, physical, and economic issues. There is extreme distress and children and adults alike are reporting worry, fear, hurt, and anger along with symptoms and reactions such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, difficulty focusing, problematic behavior, and the use of at-risk coping skills such as substance abuse. Exposure to the pandemic, however, does not fit neatly within prevailing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.

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Children of trauma need to feel they’re good at something. Find opportunities to allow kids to set and achieve goals, and they’ll feel a sense of mastery. Assign jobs in the classroom or virtually that they can do well, or encourage them to be a peer helper to someone else. Set them up to succeed, and provide them with experiences that allow them to feel their worth through concrete tasks.

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Page not found - Starr Commonwealth “I love that saying, ‘There is no such thing as a bad kid.’ I believe in that. I believe that if you hug a kid, you give them love, you give them guidance...they will make it. They will make it.”

Streaming now: Resilience Coach Reflections with Katie Carpenter

Learn from Katie as she discusses success stories and courageous conversations between co-workers.

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There are three inter-related core needs or pillars of intervention as referred to by Bath & Seita (2018) for successful intervention with children affected by adversity. These pillars include: safety, connection, coping ability. Unfortunately, each of us only has limited opportunities to establish safety and connection throughout children's days or weeks. So how can we make the most of the time we do have?

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