Trauma-Informed Restorative Supports & Interventions
Date:
May 7, 2026 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Location:
Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow VT
Price:
Instructor(s):
Camille Koosmann
Event Type:
In-Person
Professional Learning Hours:
12
Intended Audience:
Anyone working in PK-12 schools, including those who are relatively new to the topic of resilience and trauma-informed schools, as well as those with more advanced expertise.
VT-HEC is working together with the Vermont Learning Collaborative (VTLC) to bring you this offering. VTLC is an educational service agency serving the southeast region of Vermont.
*Staff from VTLC member districts and SUs are eligible for a discounted rate of $560: Mountain Views, Windsor Southeast, Springfield, Two Rivers, Windham Northeast, Windham Southeast, Windham Central, and Windham Southwest.
Participants must attend both days:
- May 7, 2026
- May 8, 2026
Participants are eligible for an overnight discount at Okemo Mountain Resort. Call 855-945-0553 and reference the group code SOKVLC26 to make a reservation.
Descripton
With all of the challenges today’s students face, previously useful skills and tools to address complex student behavior are often insufficient. In this experiential series, participants will apply the concepts of a trauma-informed approach to every day restorative practices to prevent, mitigate, and respond to these behaviors. Implementing these approaches supports the creation of restorative communities of care, dignity, and accountability.
On day one, participants will deepen their understanding of trauma, brain-science, and restorative practices to build routines that strengthen student capacity, skill, and motivation, as well as increase a sense of efficacy and connectedness. On day two, participants will explore in-the moment strategies for responding restoratively to three types of behavior we see frequently in schools: lid-flipping, stress-relieving, and need-meeting. In addition, school teams will learn a framework for problem-solving ongoing and complex behaviors. The second session builds significantly on the content of the first.
Participants will learn to more effectively:
- Create the conditions for student engagement that are both proactive and responsive.
- Bring increased compassion and understanding to their own and others’ unexpected, unsafe, and inappropriate behaviors.
- Respond to student behaviors restoratively in-the-moment.
- Collaboratively problem-solve ongoing behavior concerns with school teams.
