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--Getting Comfortable with Conflict

--Building an Inclusive Work and Service Environment

--Cross-Cultural Communication

--Implicit Bias Awareness Skill Building

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EmpowerMT's youth and schools programming focuses on healing centered youth led change rooted in belonging, meaning, well-being and purpose. This pathway of leadership development offers opportunities to explore identity, understand the impact of systemic oppression, and develop skills and confidence to create meaningful positive change.

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EmpowerMT's youth and schools programming focuses on healing centered youth led change rooted in belonging, meaning, well-being and purpose. This pathway of leadership development offers opportunities to explore identity, understand the impact of systemic oppression, and develop skills and confidence to create meaningful positive change.

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--Secondary Trauma Resiliency Skills Training

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Andrew works with both an experiential and a content-driven training process to build resiliency in professionals at risk of experiencing secondary trauma. The training integrates trauma theory, attachment theory, neurobiology, and embodiment work as it applies to the secondary trauma we are exposed to through work in traumatic work environments. Andrew creates safety in any experiential process and encourages participants to track the impact of these training strategies on their whole system.
Training packages will be available online soon. To inquire in the interim, email: What is Secondary Trauma? activateresiliency@gmail.com.
Secondary trauma is not merely an emotional disorder, although emotional distress is one aspect of its presentation. Rather, secondary trauma emerges from the way humans use brain and body functions to connect with other humans in effective collaborative relationships. Mirror neurons in the human brain allow the professional to deeply understand the experiences of those they serve. This means that we feel WITH our clients, not FOR our clients.
Definition of resiliency.
This feeling WITH the client means that the content of the client's experience is recorded in all parts of the tri-partite brain of the professional worker. Their thinking patterns are impacted, emotions are hijacked, and their body selves are activated by the traumatic content of the cases they work in. If the worker is not trained in the recognition of secondary trauma process and its antidotes, they begin an unsustainable erosion of their own personal and professional capacity.

Resiliency does not just limit the toxicity of trauma, but it creates the potential to transform toxic distress into strength. The goal of resiliency practice is to create post-traumatic growth, meaning that the life and body of the worker is enhanced and strengthened not merely salvaged from the toxicity of trauma.

Resiliency is the natural tendency of the human being to protect themselves in the face of traumatic exposure. It includes the use of body, emotion, communication, and relationship-based activities that strengthen the core self of the workers so they can meet trauma with a strengthening response. It is the replacement of toxic trauma with powerful skills and practices.

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Andrew works with both an experiential and a content-driven training process to build resiliency in professionals at risk of experiencing secondary trauma. The training integrates trauma theory, attachment theory, neurobiology, and embodiment work as it applies to the secondary trauma we are exposed to through work in traumatic work environments.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) & Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE)

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Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Montana

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Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Montana

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Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Montana

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--Trainings customizable to each group

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The Family Tree Nurturing Center and The Parenting Place in Missoula collaboratively form Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Motana. Since being chartered in 2014, we have continued to work toward our mission: To prevent the abuse and neglect of Montana's children, in all its forms.

We recognize our power to help create the kind of state we want to live in. We also recognize that when all children do not have equal opportunity for healthy growth and development, we put our future as a society at risk.

Because of the work being accomplished via the National Exchange Club Centers for the prevention of child abuse network, we know that there are many effective child development efforts being implemented around the country. Their services focus on in-home mentoring, shaken baby syndrome prevention, sexual safety and child sexual abuse prevention, peer abuse and bullying prevention, and many more. It is our intention to continue to support and expand these services across our state.

We will continue to focus on innovative and needed services that lay the foundation for children's growth and development. We stress this because it is a necessity when we consider the need to reduce the possibility of more serious problems occurring later for these children.

Our vision is a state in which no child is ever abused or neglected. We believe that with the help from the public, policy-makers, and corporate partners, that this idea can be made a reality.

Click here to learn more about National Exchange Club Centers for the prevention of child abuse network.
Together, we can prevent child abuse... Because childhood lasts a lifetime.

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About Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Montana

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The Family Tree Nurturing Center and The Parenting Place in Missoula collaboratively form Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Motana. Since being chartered in 2014, we have continued to work toward our mission: To prevent the abuse and neglect of Montana's children, in all its forms. We recognize our power to help create the kind of state we want to live in.

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National Native Children's Trauma Center

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National Native Children's Trauma Center

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Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities

Historical Trauma and Its Current Impacts:

Building Your Bounce: Promoting Adult Resilience:

Fostering Resilience in the Face of Loss

Cultural Humility

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TTA overview

We offer training and technical assistance (TTA) to tribal, federal, state, and private agencies on the impacts, prevention, and mitigation of childhood traumatic stress, along with other forms of TTA that align with trauma-informed principles. While we seek to tailor our TTA to the requesting tribe or organization and are eager to support the development of customized implementation plans, our offerings fall roughly into four broad, mutually reinforcing categories:

1. Foundational trauma education, prevention, and healing trainings relevant to all people and program types

2. Trainings on youth and family engagement

3. Trainings designed for specific child-serving systems

4. Tailored TTA programs developed in response to local needs, strengths, and readiness levels

Foundational trauma, prevention, and healing trainings

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. Length: 4 hours.

Historical Trauma and Its Current Impacts: An overview of the history, theory, and research related to the collective traumas experienced by AI/AN populations and the ongoing effects of these traumas, coupled with a focus on local resilience and strategies for promoting collective healing. Length: 3 hours.

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Self-Care: An introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and related workplace disorders experienced by those in the helping professions, coupled with best practices for mitigating these disorders at the individual and the organizational levels. Length: 3 hours.

Building Your Bounce: Promoting Adult Resilience: Developed by theDevereaux Center for Resilient Children, this training supports caregivers in recognizing the importance of their own resilience and how it relates to their ability to provide quality care to youth. Areas of focus include understanding characteristics of resilience, protective factors, and risk factors; utilizing the Devereaux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS), a self-assessment; and exploring everyday strategies for strengthening resilience. Length: 8 hours (4 two-hour modules).

Fostering Resilience in the Face of Loss: Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the wide-ranging losses experienced by youth, this training is intended to be delivered directly to young people for the purpose of helping them contextualize those losses and build resilience. Length: 1.5 hours.

Cultural Humility: A training for agency staff and service providers who have limited knowledge of tribal cultures and histories, intended to encourage culturally appropriate approaches to supporting Native children and families. Length: 3 hours.

youth and family engagement Trainings

Using Medicine Wheel teachings as a foundational framework, our Walking the Four Directions (WFD) training series addresses the integration of family voice into tribal youth programming. The four WFD trainings can be delivered as a package or individually in schools and youth-serving agencies, as well as to groups of parents, foster parents, or other support providers.

Walking the Four Directions: A Traditional View of Discipline: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings for developing positive, strengths-based, culturally responsive discipline strategies. Length: 2-3 days depending on choice of format.

Walking the Four Directions: Implementing Culturally-Based Wraparound Services: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings to provide individualized community-based support and services for children and families. Length: 2 days for informational portions only or 4-5 days for full training resulting in readiness for implementation.

system-specific trauma-informed trainings

schools

Trauma-Informed Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (TI-PBIS): Training in a three-tiered, trauma-informed PBIS framework for supporting students socially and emotionally. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available for full implementation and data/evaluation support.

CBITS / CBITS for American Indian Youth (CBITS-AI): Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS; Jaycox, Langley, & Hoover, 2018) is a clinical group intervention based on components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and intended for middle and high school students exposed to trauma. CBITS-AI is the NNCTC's cultural adaptation of CBITS, approved by the developers and written by a committee of cultural experts. CBITS-AI offers revisions responsive to American Indian students. Both CBITS and CBITS-AI can be further adapted to be locally responsive. Length: 8 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available as implementation proceeds.

Bounce Back: A clinical group intervention for elementary school students exposed to trauma, adapted from CBITS by Audra Langley and Lisa Jaycox (2015). Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Students, Trauma, and Resiliency (STAR): A classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting middle and high school students. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Bounce Back for Classrooms (BBC): Adapted from Bounce Back by NNCTC staff, BBC is a classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting students in grades 2-5. Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) for Schools: Adapted from ARC, a trauma treatment model developed by Margaret Blaustein and Kristine Kinniburgh (2010), ARC for Schools is an organizational framework that can be applied at the whole-school level as well as in in-school clinical settings. Length: 3 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA and additional training available depending on individual schools' needs.

Bullying Prevention: Training in best practices for preventing and responding to bullying utilizing team-based methods, policy and procedure modifications, the creation of student behavioral expectations related to bullying, and coaching and problem solving. Length: 4 hours.

child welfare & juvenile justice

Trauma-Informed Tribal Court Self-Assessment: An NNCTC adaptation of a National Child Traumatic Stress Network product, this tool allows tribal courts and other juvenile justice stakeholders to assess organizational readiness for trauma-informed change projects and helps identify operational priorities for implementation planning. The NNCTC often facilitates the assessment process and assists with implementation planning. Length: 6 hours for assessment. NNCTC staff typically produce a report with recommendations within 2-3 weeks.

Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Justice-Involved Youth: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training juvenile justice agency staff to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of the young people in their systems. The NNCTC has developed adaptations for tribal systems, including interactive case studies set in tribal communities. Length: 2 days. Can be adapted for your setting and time constraints.

Resource Parent Curriculum: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training guardians and caregivers to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of children in out-of-home placements. The NNCTC has adapted the curriculum to make it relevant for a broader array of caregivers and to provide tribal case scenarios. Length: 8 hours. An abbreviated version of the curriculum can be delivered in 4 hours.

Family Group Conferencing: Training in the development of family group conferencing within any tribal program for at-risk youth. Family groups empower the family to develop strategies for supporting youth safety and resilience. Length: 8 hours. Ongoing TA available as implementation proceeds.

Trauma-Informed Tribal Child Advocacy: A training designed to increase the cultural responsiveness and trauma knowledge of child advocacy centers serving tribal children. Length: 3 hours.

Trauma-Informed Family Court Orientation: A training designed to orient social workers in preparation for tribal child protection court proceedings, including a mock trial component. Length: 2 hours.

tailored trauma-informed TTa packages

Trauma-Resilient Schools: NNCTC school-based staff collaborate with tribal schools on the development of culturally focused, multi-tiered, trauma-informed systems change programming. These projects can take many different forms depending on the needs and goals of the school system and community. Projects typically include onsite leadership with community/cultural representation, a range of assessment options, policy and procedure change recommendations, customized training plans, ongoing TA as implementation proceeds, and evaluation support. Project length: 1 year for initial implementation, 3 years for sustainable system change.

Other Youth-Serving Agencies: We are available for collaboration with any tribal youth-serving agency. These include child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, primary care, and child advocacy agencies, among others. Activities may include system readiness assessments, trauma-informed organizational assessments, policy and procedure reviews, training and system change recommendations, instructional coaching, booster trainings, data and evaluation support, trauma-focused review of physical spaces, inclusion of local cultural experts into programming, selection and adaptation of screening and other practice tools, implementation consultation, and facilitation of onsite leadership teams.

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TTA Offerings - National Native Children's Trauma Center

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TTA overview

We offer training and technical assistance (TTA) to tribal, federal, state, and private agencies on the impacts, prevention, and mitigation of childhood traumatic stress, along with other forms of TTA that align with trauma-informed principles. While we seek to tailor our TTA to the requesting tribe or organization and are eager to support the development of customized implementation plans, our offerings fall roughly into four broad, mutually reinforcing categories:

1. Foundational trauma education, prevention, and healing trainings relevant to all people and program types

2. Trainings on youth and family engagement

3. Trainings designed for specific child-serving systems

4. Tailored TTA programs developed in response to local needs, strengths, and readiness levels

Foundational trauma, prevention, and healing trainings

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. Length: 4 hours.

Historical Trauma and Its Current Impacts: An overview of the history, theory, and research related to the collective traumas experienced by AI/AN populations and the ongoing effects of these traumas, coupled with a focus on local resilience and strategies for promoting collective healing. Length: 3 hours.

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Self-Care: An introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and related workplace disorders experienced by those in the helping professions, coupled with best practices for mitigating these disorders at the individual and the organizational levels. Length: 3 hours.

Building Your Bounce: Promoting Adult Resilience: Developed by theDevereaux Center for Resilient Children, this training supports caregivers in recognizing the importance of their own resilience and how it relates to their ability to provide quality care to youth. Areas of focus include understanding characteristics of resilience, protective factors, and risk factors; utilizing the Devereaux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS), a self-assessment; and exploring everyday strategies for strengthening resilience. Length: 8 hours (4 two-hour modules).

Fostering Resilience in the Face of Loss: Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the wide-ranging losses experienced by youth, this training is intended to be delivered directly to young people for the purpose of helping them contextualize those losses and build resilience. Length: 1.5 hours.

Cultural Humility: A training for agency staff and service providers who have limited knowledge of tribal cultures and histories, intended to encourage culturally appropriate approaches to supporting Native children and families. Length: 3 hours.

youth and family engagement Trainings

Using Medicine Wheel teachings as a foundational framework, our Walking the Four Directions (WFD) training series addresses the integration of family voice into tribal youth programming. The four WFD trainings can be delivered as a package or individually in schools and youth-serving agencies, as well as to groups of parents, foster parents, or other support providers.

Walking the Four Directions: A Traditional View of Discipline: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings for developing positive, strengths-based, culturally responsive discipline strategies. Length: 2-3 days depending on choice of format.

Walking the Four Directions: Implementing Culturally-Based Wraparound Services: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings to provide individualized community-based support and services for children and families. Length: 2 days for informational portions only or 4-5 days for full training resulting in readiness for implementation.

system-specific trauma-informed trainings

schools

Trauma-Informed Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (TI-PBIS): Training in a three-tiered, trauma-informed PBIS framework for supporting students socially and emotionally. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available for full implementation and data/evaluation support.

CBITS / CBITS for American Indian Youth (CBITS-AI): Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS; Jaycox, Langley, & Hoover, 2018) is a clinical group intervention based on components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and intended for middle and high school students exposed to trauma. CBITS-AI is the NNCTC's cultural adaptation of CBITS, approved by the developers and written by a committee of cultural experts. CBITS-AI offers revisions responsive to American Indian students. Both CBITS and CBITS-AI can be further adapted to be locally responsive. Length: 8 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available as implementation proceeds.

Bounce Back: A clinical group intervention for elementary school students exposed to trauma, adapted from CBITS by Audra Langley and Lisa Jaycox (2015). Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Students, Trauma, and Resiliency (STAR): A classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting middle and high school students. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Bounce Back for Classrooms (BBC): Adapted from Bounce Back by NNCTC staff, BBC is a classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting students in grades 2-5. Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) for Schools: Adapted from ARC, a trauma treatment model developed by Margaret Blaustein and Kristine Kinniburgh (2010), ARC for Schools is an organizational framework that can be applied at the whole-school level as well as in in-school clinical settings. Length: 3 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA and additional training available depending on individual schools' needs.

Bullying Prevention: Training in best practices for preventing and responding to bullying utilizing team-based methods, policy and procedure modifications, the creation of student behavioral expectations related to bullying, and coaching and problem solving. Length: 4 hours.

child welfare & juvenile justice

Trauma-Informed Tribal Court Self-Assessment: An NNCTC adaptation of a National Child Traumatic Stress Network product, this tool allows tribal courts and other juvenile justice stakeholders to assess organizational readiness for trauma-informed change projects and helps identify operational priorities for implementation planning. The NNCTC often facilitates the assessment process and assists with implementation planning. Length: 6 hours for assessment. NNCTC staff typically produce a report with recommendations within 2-3 weeks.

Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Justice-Involved Youth: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training juvenile justice agency staff to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of the young people in their systems. The NNCTC has developed adaptations for tribal systems, including interactive case studies set in tribal communities. Length: 2 days. Can be adapted for your setting and time constraints.

Resource Parent Curriculum: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training guardians and caregivers to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of children in out-of-home placements. The NNCTC has adapted the curriculum to make it relevant for a broader array of caregivers and to provide tribal case scenarios. Length: 8 hours. An abbreviated version of the curriculum can be delivered in 4 hours.

Family Group Conferencing: Training in the development of family group conferencing within any tribal program for at-risk youth. Family groups empower the family to develop strategies for supporting youth safety and resilience. Length: 8 hours. Ongoing TA available as implementation proceeds.

Trauma-Informed Tribal Child Advocacy: A training designed to increase the cultural responsiveness and trauma knowledge of child advocacy centers serving tribal children. Length: 3 hours.

Trauma-Informed Family Court Orientation: A training designed to orient social workers in preparation for tribal child protection court proceedings, including a mock trial component. Length: 2 hours.

tailored trauma-informed TTa packages

Trauma-Resilient Schools: NNCTC school-based staff collaborate with tribal schools on the development of culturally focused, multi-tiered, trauma-informed systems change programming. These projects can take many different forms depending on the needs and goals of the school system and community. Projects typically include onsite leadership with community/cultural representation, a range of assessment options, policy and procedure change recommendations, customized training plans, ongoing TA as implementation proceeds, and evaluation support. Project length: 1 year for initial implementation, 3 years for sustainable system change.

Other Youth-Serving Agencies: We are available for collaboration with any tribal youth-serving agency. These include child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, primary care, and child advocacy agencies, among others. Activities may include system readiness assessments, trauma-informed organizational assessments, policy and procedure reviews, training and system change recommendations, instructional coaching, booster trainings, data and evaluation support, trauma-focused review of physical spaces, inclusion of local cultural experts into programming, selection and adaptation of screening and other practice tools, implementation consultation, and facilitation of onsite leadership teams.

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TTA Offerings - National Native Children's Trauma Center

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Walking the Four Directions: A Traditional View of Discipline

Walking the Four Directions: Implementing Culturally-Based Wraparound Services

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TTA overview

We offer training and technical assistance (TTA) to tribal, federal, state, and private agencies on the impacts, prevention, and mitigation of childhood traumatic stress, along with other forms of TTA that align with trauma-informed principles. While we seek to tailor our TTA to the requesting tribe or organization and are eager to support the development of customized implementation plans, our offerings fall roughly into four broad, mutually reinforcing categories:

1. Foundational trauma education, prevention, and healing trainings relevant to all people and program types

2. Trainings on youth and family engagement

3. Trainings designed for specific child-serving systems

4. Tailored TTA programs developed in response to local needs, strengths, and readiness levels

Foundational trauma, prevention, and healing trainings

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. Length: 4 hours.

Historical Trauma and Its Current Impacts: An overview of the history, theory, and research related to the collective traumas experienced by AI/AN populations and the ongoing effects of these traumas, coupled with a focus on local resilience and strategies for promoting collective healing. Length: 3 hours.

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Self-Care: An introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and related workplace disorders experienced by those in the helping professions, coupled with best practices for mitigating these disorders at the individual and the organizational levels. Length: 3 hours.

Building Your Bounce: Promoting Adult Resilience: Developed by theDevereaux Center for Resilient Children, this training supports caregivers in recognizing the importance of their own resilience and how it relates to their ability to provide quality care to youth. Areas of focus include understanding characteristics of resilience, protective factors, and risk factors; utilizing the Devereaux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS), a self-assessment; and exploring everyday strategies for strengthening resilience. Length: 8 hours (4 two-hour modules).

Fostering Resilience in the Face of Loss: Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the wide-ranging losses experienced by youth, this training is intended to be delivered directly to young people for the purpose of helping them contextualize those losses and build resilience. Length: 1.5 hours.

Cultural Humility: A training for agency staff and service providers who have limited knowledge of tribal cultures and histories, intended to encourage culturally appropriate approaches to supporting Native children and families. Length: 3 hours.

youth and family engagement Trainings

Using Medicine Wheel teachings as a foundational framework, our Walking the Four Directions (WFD) training series addresses the integration of family voice into tribal youth programming. The four WFD trainings can be delivered as a package or individually in schools and youth-serving agencies, as well as to groups of parents, foster parents, or other support providers.

Walking the Four Directions: A Traditional View of Discipline: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings for developing positive, strengths-based, culturally responsive discipline strategies. Length: 2-3 days depending on choice of format.

Walking the Four Directions: Implementing Culturally-Based Wraparound Services: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings to provide individualized community-based support and services for children and families. Length: 2 days for informational portions only or 4-5 days for full training resulting in readiness for implementation.

system-specific trauma-informed trainings

schools

Trauma-Informed Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (TI-PBIS): Training in a three-tiered, trauma-informed PBIS framework for supporting students socially and emotionally. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available for full implementation and data/evaluation support.

CBITS / CBITS for American Indian Youth (CBITS-AI): Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS; Jaycox, Langley, & Hoover, 2018) is a clinical group intervention based on components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and intended for middle and high school students exposed to trauma. CBITS-AI is the NNCTC's cultural adaptation of CBITS, approved by the developers and written by a committee of cultural experts. CBITS-AI offers revisions responsive to American Indian students. Both CBITS and CBITS-AI can be further adapted to be locally responsive. Length: 8 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available as implementation proceeds.

Bounce Back: A clinical group intervention for elementary school students exposed to trauma, adapted from CBITS by Audra Langley and Lisa Jaycox (2015). Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Students, Trauma, and Resiliency (STAR): A classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting middle and high school students. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Bounce Back for Classrooms (BBC): Adapted from Bounce Back by NNCTC staff, BBC is a classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting students in grades 2-5. Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) for Schools: Adapted from ARC, a trauma treatment model developed by Margaret Blaustein and Kristine Kinniburgh (2010), ARC for Schools is an organizational framework that can be applied at the whole-school level as well as in in-school clinical settings. Length: 3 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA and additional training available depending on individual schools' needs.

Bullying Prevention: Training in best practices for preventing and responding to bullying utilizing team-based methods, policy and procedure modifications, the creation of student behavioral expectations related to bullying, and coaching and problem solving. Length: 4 hours.

child welfare & juvenile justice

Trauma-Informed Tribal Court Self-Assessment: An NNCTC adaptation of a National Child Traumatic Stress Network product, this tool allows tribal courts and other juvenile justice stakeholders to assess organizational readiness for trauma-informed change projects and helps identify operational priorities for implementation planning. The NNCTC often facilitates the assessment process and assists with implementation planning. Length: 6 hours for assessment. NNCTC staff typically produce a report with recommendations within 2-3 weeks.

Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Justice-Involved Youth: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training juvenile justice agency staff to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of the young people in their systems. The NNCTC has developed adaptations for tribal systems, including interactive case studies set in tribal communities. Length: 2 days. Can be adapted for your setting and time constraints.

Resource Parent Curriculum: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training guardians and caregivers to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of children in out-of-home placements. The NNCTC has adapted the curriculum to make it relevant for a broader array of caregivers and to provide tribal case scenarios. Length: 8 hours. An abbreviated version of the curriculum can be delivered in 4 hours.

Family Group Conferencing: Training in the development of family group conferencing within any tribal program for at-risk youth. Family groups empower the family to develop strategies for supporting youth safety and resilience. Length: 8 hours. Ongoing TA available as implementation proceeds.

Trauma-Informed Tribal Child Advocacy: A training designed to increase the cultural responsiveness and trauma knowledge of child advocacy centers serving tribal children. Length: 3 hours.

Trauma-Informed Family Court Orientation: A training designed to orient social workers in preparation for tribal child protection court proceedings, including a mock trial component. Length: 2 hours.

tailored trauma-informed TTa packages

Trauma-Resilient Schools: NNCTC school-based staff collaborate with tribal schools on the development of culturally focused, multi-tiered, trauma-informed systems change programming. These projects can take many different forms depending on the needs and goals of the school system and community. Projects typically include onsite leadership with community/cultural representation, a range of assessment options, policy and procedure change recommendations, customized training plans, ongoing TA as implementation proceeds, and evaluation support. Project length: 1 year for initial implementation, 3 years for sustainable system change.

Other Youth-Serving Agencies: We are available for collaboration with any tribal youth-serving agency. These include child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, primary care, and child advocacy agencies, among others. Activities may include system readiness assessments, trauma-informed organizational assessments, policy and procedure reviews, training and system change recommendations, instructional coaching, booster trainings, data and evaluation support, trauma-focused review of physical spaces, inclusion of local cultural experts into programming, selection and adaptation of screening and other practice tools, implementation consultation, and facilitation of onsite leadership teams.

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TTA Offerings - National Native Children's Trauma Center

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--Trauma 101

--ACEs Training

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Trauma-Informed Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (TI-PBIS)

CBITS / CBITS for American Indian Youth (CBITS-AI)

Bounce Back

Students, Trauma, and Resiliency (STAR)

Bounce Back for Classrooms (BBC)

Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) for Schools

Bullying Prevention

Trauma-Informed Tribal Court Self-Assessment

Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Justice-Involved Youth

Resource Parent Curriculum

Family Group Conferencing

Trauma-Informed Tribal Child Advocacy

Trauma-Informed Family Court Orientation:

Trauma-Resilient Schools

Other Youth-Serving Agencies

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TTA overview

We offer training and technical assistance (TTA) to tribal, federal, state, and private agencies on the impacts, prevention, and mitigation of childhood traumatic stress, along with other forms of TTA that align with trauma-informed principles. While we seek to tailor our TTA to the requesting tribe or organization and are eager to support the development of customized implementation plans, our offerings fall roughly into four broad, mutually reinforcing categories:

1. Foundational trauma education, prevention, and healing trainings relevant to all people and program types

2. Trainings on youth and family engagement

3. Trainings designed for specific child-serving systems

4. Tailored TTA programs developed in response to local needs, strengths, and readiness levels

Foundational trauma, prevention, and healing trainings

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. Length: 4 hours.

Historical Trauma and Its Current Impacts: An overview of the history, theory, and research related to the collective traumas experienced by AI/AN populations and the ongoing effects of these traumas, coupled with a focus on local resilience and strategies for promoting collective healing. Length: 3 hours.

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Self-Care: An introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) and related workplace disorders experienced by those in the helping professions, coupled with best practices for mitigating these disorders at the individual and the organizational levels. Length: 3 hours.

Building Your Bounce: Promoting Adult Resilience: Developed by theDevereaux Center for Resilient Children, this training supports caregivers in recognizing the importance of their own resilience and how it relates to their ability to provide quality care to youth. Areas of focus include understanding characteristics of resilience, protective factors, and risk factors; utilizing the Devereaux Adult Resilience Survey (DARS), a self-assessment; and exploring everyday strategies for strengthening resilience. Length: 8 hours (4 two-hour modules).

Fostering Resilience in the Face of Loss: Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the wide-ranging losses experienced by youth, this training is intended to be delivered directly to young people for the purpose of helping them contextualize those losses and build resilience. Length: 1.5 hours.

Cultural Humility: A training for agency staff and service providers who have limited knowledge of tribal cultures and histories, intended to encourage culturally appropriate approaches to supporting Native children and families. Length: 3 hours.

youth and family engagement Trainings

Using Medicine Wheel teachings as a foundational framework, our Walking the Four Directions (WFD) training series addresses the integration of family voice into tribal youth programming. The four WFD trainings can be delivered as a package or individually in schools and youth-serving agencies, as well as to groups of parents, foster parents, or other support providers.

Walking the Four Directions: A Traditional View of Discipline: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings for developing positive, strengths-based, culturally responsive discipline strategies. Length: 2-3 days depending on choice of format.

Walking the Four Directions: Implementing Culturally-Based Wraparound Services: A training in using Medicine Wheel teachings to provide individualized community-based support and services for children and families. Length: 2 days for informational portions only or 4-5 days for full training resulting in readiness for implementation.

system-specific trauma-informed trainings

schools

Trauma-Informed Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (TI-PBIS): Training in a three-tiered, trauma-informed PBIS framework for supporting students socially and emotionally. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available for full implementation and data/evaluation support.

CBITS / CBITS for American Indian Youth (CBITS-AI): Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS; Jaycox, Langley, & Hoover, 2018) is a clinical group intervention based on components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and intended for middle and high school students exposed to trauma. CBITS-AI is the NNCTC's cultural adaptation of CBITS, approved by the developers and written by a committee of cultural experts. CBITS-AI offers revisions responsive to American Indian students. Both CBITS and CBITS-AI can be further adapted to be locally responsive. Length: 8 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available as implementation proceeds.

Bounce Back: A clinical group intervention for elementary school students exposed to trauma, adapted from CBITS by Audra Langley and Lisa Jaycox (2015). Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Students, Trauma, and Resiliency (STAR): A classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting middle and high school students. Length: 4 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Bounce Back for Classrooms (BBC): Adapted from Bounce Back by NNCTC staff, BBC is a classroom-based trauma-informed, social emotional learning curriculum for supporting students in grades 2-5. Length: 6 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA available.

Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) for Schools: Adapted from ARC, a trauma treatment model developed by Margaret Blaustein and Kristine Kinniburgh (2010), ARC for Schools is an organizational framework that can be applied at the whole-school level as well as in in-school clinical settings. Length: 3 hours for introductory training. Follow-along TA and additional training available depending on individual schools' needs.

Bullying Prevention: Training in best practices for preventing and responding to bullying utilizing team-based methods, policy and procedure modifications, the creation of student behavioral expectations related to bullying, and coaching and problem solving. Length: 4 hours.

child welfare & juvenile justice

Trauma-Informed Tribal Court Self-Assessment: An NNCTC adaptation of a National Child Traumatic Stress Network product, this tool allows tribal courts and other juvenile justice stakeholders to assess organizational readiness for trauma-informed change projects and helps identify operational priorities for implementation planning. The NNCTC often facilitates the assessment process and assists with implementation planning. Length: 6 hours for assessment. NNCTC staff typically produce a report with recommendations within 2-3 weeks.

Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Justice-Involved Youth: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training juvenile justice agency staff to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of the young people in their systems. The NNCTC has developed adaptations for tribal systems, including interactive case studies set in tribal communities. Length: 2 days. Can be adapted for your setting and time constraints.

Resource Parent Curriculum: A National Child Traumatic Stress Network curriculum for training guardians and caregivers to be responsive to the trauma-related needs of children in out-of-home placements. The NNCTC has adapted the curriculum to make it relevant for a broader array of caregivers and to provide tribal case scenarios. Length: 8 hours. An abbreviated version of the curriculum can be delivered in 4 hours.

Family Group Conferencing: Training in the development of family group conferencing within any tribal program for at-risk youth. Family groups empower the family to develop strategies for supporting youth safety and resilience. Length: 8 hours. Ongoing TA available as implementation proceeds.

Trauma-Informed Tribal Child Advocacy: A training designed to increase the cultural responsiveness and trauma knowledge of child advocacy centers serving tribal children. Length: 3 hours.

Trauma-Informed Family Court Orientation: A training designed to orient social workers in preparation for tribal child protection court proceedings, including a mock trial component. Length: 2 hours.

tailored trauma-informed TTa packages

Trauma-Resilient Schools: NNCTC school-based staff collaborate with tribal schools on the development of culturally focused, multi-tiered, trauma-informed systems change programming. These projects can take many different forms depending on the needs and goals of the school system and community. Projects typically include onsite leadership with community/cultural representation, a range of assessment options, policy and procedure change recommendations, customized training plans, ongoing TA as implementation proceeds, and evaluation support. Project length: 1 year for initial implementation, 3 years for sustainable system change.

Other Youth-Serving Agencies: We are available for collaboration with any tribal youth-serving agency. These include child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, primary care, and child advocacy agencies, among others. Activities may include system readiness assessments, trauma-informed organizational assessments, policy and procedure reviews, training and system change recommendations, instructional coaching, booster trainings, data and evaluation support, trauma-focused review of physical spaces, inclusion of local cultural experts into programming, selection and adaptation of screening and other practice tools, implementation consultation, and facilitation of onsite leadership teams.

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TTA Offerings - National Native Children's Trauma Center

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--Circle of Security
--Dads & Dialogue
--Family Education Workshops

​--Children in Between

--Parent Consultations
--Mediation
--Dream Bigger
--Mending Broken Hearts

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Our parenting classes serve two purposes - our parent educators can share research-based information about raising healthy, resilient children, and parents and guardians have the opportunity to network and exchange ideas and advice.
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Our core curriculum emphasizes positive parenting, communication, and self-esteem in families.

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--The Nurturing Parenting Program

--Parenting a Second Time Around (PASTA)

--Incarceration Support

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MT Trauma-Informed Early Childhood Coalition

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--Linking Systems of Care for Early Childhood

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Mental Health Support for Teachers in Montana — Brownlee Counseling

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Discover support tailored for teachers at Brownlee Counseling. Explore resources, counseling services, and strategies to enhance well-being and foster resilience in the classroom. Prioritize your mental health today!

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HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) 

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facing parenting challenges together Florence Crittenton provides classes to all parents and caregivers in our community. Classes are facilitated by Jen