Resource List - Webinars

Description: This webinar focuses on how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in childhood affect student learning, student behavior and schools; how trauma-sensitive strategies can be used to improve school climate; and how trauma-sensitive schools are effectively addressing students’ social and emotional needs while decreasing disciplinary referrals, violent incidents, and chronic absences. Dr. Joyce Dorado, HEARTS, and Jane Stevens, ACEs Connection Network.

Policy Issues in Implementing Trauma-Informed Schools, 2016
Description: In this webinar experts will explore policy challenges and lessons learned in promoting and supporting trauma-informed schools. Speakers will share key NCTSN resources related to the development and implementation of trauma-informed schools; discuss the relationship between practice and policy in the sustainability of trauma-informed school models; and share examples and insights gained from the creation and implementation of a trauma-informed school in Los Angeles, California.

You will have to register to view the webinar and download the slides.

Presenters: Christopher Blodgett, PhD, Washington State University; Pamela Vona,MA, Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Resiliency, Hope, and Wellness in Schools; Erica Ramirez, MEd, Community Health Advocates School at Augustus F. Hawkins High School, LAUSD; and Diane Elmore,PhD, MPH, Director, Policy Program, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Duke University/ UCLA
Sponsor: NCTSN

Student Engagement through Trauma-Informed Practice
[PDF of slides from webinar]
Description: How the Compassionate Schools project works and was implemented at Fern Hill Elementary in Tacoma, WA. Dropout Prevention Webinar Workshop, March 18, 2015; Dr. Ron Hertel, program supervisor, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction; and Dr. Mary A. Wilson, principal, Fern Hill Elementary School.   

The Trauma, Health & Learning Connection in Schools, March 2018

Description: "Schools play a crucial role in responding to the impacts of violence, poverty and other types of trauma that students frequently encounter by providing appropriate supports and services. Awareness around the powerful effects of trauma on health and learning is creating opportunities for greater access to behavioral health care and other services in school-based settings.

This webinar will introduce the trauma, health and learning connection. Speakers will discuss examples of successful practices on the state-level within California and explain why trauma-informed schools matter for health equity, learning and achievement. This webinar will also provide an overview of the role that Medicaid plays in school-based services reimbursement, and we will end the session with a robust Q&A discussion."

PDF slides of webinar can be found here.

Trauma-Informed Instruction: What Every Teacher and Administrator Needs to Know, 2016
Description: Trauma-informed instruction provides all teachers and leaders a playbook for creating that environment, focused on developing the resiliency necessary to increase school success and improve academic outcomes. This webinar will discuss the foundation of what a trauma-informed instructional model means, what competencies are most critical for all teachers to know, and how school leaders can best support their staff in leveraging this powerful model to improve outcome for all kids.

You will have to register to view the webinar and download the slides.

Presenters:  Leora Wolf-Prusan, Ed.D., School Climate & Student Support Specialist at WestEd and Lara Kain, Senior Director of Transform Schools at Los Angeles Education Partnership
Sponsor: BloomBoard