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Trauma Informed Schools in 2025: Creating Thriving School Communities
Date:
January 17 @ 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
Price:
Instructor(s):
Joelle van Lent
Event Type:
Virtual
Professional Learning Hours:
12
Intended Audience:
Anyone working in PK-12 schools, including those who are relatively new to the topic of trauma-informed schools, as well as those with more advanced expertise.
Participants must attend all events:
- January 17, 2025
- February 7, 2025

Overview
Creating enriching learning environments has become increasingly daunting. Schools face complex and interwoven challenges, as well as rich opportunities to renew and strengthen understandings of trauma-informed practices, and reinforce a collective commitment to the well-being of students and staff. This workshop series will connect the impact of stress and adversity on development with practical strategies that promote resilience.
Participants will:
- Learn how caregiver, racial, and other forms of trauma impact both the formation of healthy relational patterns and the ways students respond to various experiences in school.
- Understand how healthy motivation develops, and learn practical strategies to enhance student motivation and engagement – even in situations of learned helplessness and/or chronic disengagement.
- Examine how trauma-informed discipline can both improve a sense of belonging and diminish inequities within a school community.
- Gain strategies to improve self-regulation, replace undesired behavioral responses, and increase students’ resilience to the inherent stressors of school, learning, and social endeavors.
- Increase understanding of the factors essential to building a culture of community care, including the risks for compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout.