Training and Education

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art training to enhance the quality of clinical assessment, treatment, and services for traumatized children, adolescents, their families, and communities. To that end, the Network offers a variety of in-person and online (live and on-demand) training opportunities.

This page describes those efforts and provides links to more in-depth information on Network training activities.

Page Contents:

• In-Person Training
• Online Training
• Other Online Trainings
• Educational and Training Products
• Conferences
• Contacts

In-Person Training

Learning Collaboratives (LCs) and Learning Communities (LComs) [1] allow for in-depth training in a trauma intervention, process, or practice. Teams of learners work together and with experienced faculty over a period of months to create change within their organizations.

• More about Learning Collaboratives and Learning Communities [1]
• Current, upcoming, and past LCs and LComs [2] 

 

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Online Training

• The NCTSN Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma [3] offers free live and on-demand mulitmedia presentations, including year-long courses and one-off Webinars. Continuing education credits (CEs) are available.
• The [3]training archive [4] houses audio presentations on a number of empirically-supported treatments developed by Network centers.
• The Mediasite training catalog [5] includes training sessions on interventions, NCTSN products, and data and evaluation methodologies.

 

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Other Online Trainings

• The National Center for PTSD [6] offers free in-depth trainings covering trauma and PTSD assessment and effective treatment. 
• TF-CBT Web [7] is a free web-based training course for learning Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, an evidence-based treatment for traumatic stress. The site was developed by the following NCTSN member sites: National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center [8] of the Medical University of South Carolina, the Center for Traumatic Stress for Children and Adolescents [9] at Allegheny General Hospital, and the Child Abuse Research Education and Service (CARES) Institute [10] at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's School of Osteopathic Medicine.

 

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Educational and Training Products

We offer video and print products for professionals in a variety of child-serving systems.

Video

• Children of War: A Video for Educators [11] (2005) [12]
• Cops, Kids, and Domestic Violence [13] (2006) [12]
• The Courage to Remember: Training Video on Childhood Traumatic Grief [14] (2005) [12]
• The Promise of Trauma-Focused Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse [15] (2007) [12]

Print

• Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents [16](2010) [12]
• Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators [17] (2008) [12]
• Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit [18] (2008) [12]
• Understanding the Links between Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse: A Toolkit for Professionals [19](2008) [12] 

 

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Conferences

Check our Events Calendar [20] for public conferences, meetings, and training sessions on child traumatic stress and related issues. The listings include both NCTSN-sponsored events and sessions offered by other organizations. 

 

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Contacts

Comments? Questions? We have answers!

• In-person training: Nick Tise [21]
• Online training: help@nctsn.org [22]

 

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