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ATTACHMENT | BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS | GRIEF AND LOSS | ANXIETY AND TRAUMA
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A training that empowers teachers to be confident in helping students through trauma in the classroom. This comprehensive training shows you exactly how to support children through trauma from start to finish and work with children each step of the way to support them and empower them.
Trauma for Teachers
For teachers
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This self-guided course will give you access to a fully-developed, comprehensive training that shows you how to support children from the very start and how to work with the families that support and love them.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
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Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health in Practice (IMH-101)
Presented by: Erin Troup, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E (IV-C)®
A training that empowers teachers to be confident in helping students through trauma in the classroom. This comprehensive training shows you exactly how to support children through trauma from start to finish and work with children each step of the way to support them and empower them.
*Also available online to learn on your time
Building Attachment and Attunement Techniques to Support Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Work. (IMH-2)
Presented by: Erin Troup, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E (IV-C)®
This presentation will look closely at ports of entry where home visitors can support building attachment and attunement with parents and their children. “Tools for the toolbox” will be demonstrated and discussed to allow participants to think more deeply about how everyday interactions they already have can be used in different ways to support the parent-child dyad. New strategies and deep dives into difficult interactions will be discussed and supported.
What’s Next? Supporting an Individual with Postpartum Depression.
Presented by: Stephanie Wier, LPC
This Presentation helps providers identify potential barriers when facilitating conversations regarding postpartum depression symptoms and treatment. Discussion around ways to “normalize” common presentations of postpartum depression to increase likelihood of connection to a treatment modality will occur to build capacity for identifying local and accessible postpartum resources available to client’s and their families.
The Complex Emotional Needs of Children Exposed to Parental Substance Misuse
Presented by: Erin Troup, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E (IV-C)®
Substance misuse, particularly the opioid crisis has brought the need for supports to an all-time high in Pennsylvania. This presentation focuses on the children who have been affected by multiple losses and changes as a result of parent or primary caregiver substance misuse. Children of all ages, including infants and toddlers feel the losses and stressors and the communication of this stress presents as behavior. As a clinician who focuses on the social emotional supports and behaviors exhibited by children, I will discuss how these multiple traumas and losses are manifesting as well as what has been observed in terms of behavior following prenatal exposure. A request for those working with families and children to “hold the baby and the parent in mind” while supporting substance misuse is at the heart of this presentation.
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Many behaviors that children display originate from a “Trauma Brain”. These behaviors do not respond to traditional corrective action or behavioral based interventions. In this presentation, participants will learn about the origins of trauma on a developing brain and the lifelong challenges that may accompany those changes.
*Also available online to learn on your time
Presented By: Erin Troup, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E (IV-C)®
Trauma for Teachers: Supporting Trauma and Trauma Related Behaviors in the Classroom
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Participants will learn how to recognize “Trauma Behaviors” from “Traditional Behaviors” and be able to intervene in a variety of positive ways. Participants will have some “tools for their toolbox” that they can implement with minimal to no cost or disruption to learning. The important piece to note is that working with children who have experienced trauma is a hard job; and being mindful of how these behaviors can be triggering to us as individuals in a helping profession is a large part of the work as well. Being mindful and having some self-care and trigger reminders while working with trauma will be addressed to best support everyone who works so hard to support the children in their care.
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Participants in the training will be able to:
- Name the parts of the brain responsible for the “Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fib” response. In order to recognize trauma behaviors from other behaviors.
- Recognize and explain how the brain is “efficient, not smart” in order to see how these behaviors are not deliberate.
- Name common and not so common traum’s that students may have been involved with in order to identify “at risk” students.
- Categorize different types of trauma into levels of severity in order to effectively plan for interventions and notice where to spend time and attention.
- Demonstrate practices to calm the nervous system and reach trauma in an effort to de-escalate a child.
- Utilize various techniques in the classroom to reduce the amount of disruptive behaviors present as a result of Trauma.
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Attachment: A Deep Dive into the Parent-Child Relationship
PRESENTED BY: ERIN TROUP, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E (IV-C)®
- Participants will understand the origins of attachment and the biological processes behind it.
- Participants will be able to label developmental stages and critical periods of attachment
- Behavioral identification of positive and difficult attachments will be discussed
- Interventions to support attachment or to heal a difficult attachment will be presented.
Holding Difficult Conversations
Erin Troup, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E and Stephanie Wier LPC, NCC
- Exploring our buttons and where they show up in the conversations
- Categorizing the concerns- buckets of health and safety, resources, diagnosis and treatment
- Expectations vs. Expectancy
- Holding good boundaries
- Examples of phrasing that helps us be clear, direct and effective.
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"Sprout has not only helped my classroom grow, it has also helped me grow both personally and professionally. Having a Sprout consultant has been a great experience and very appreciated."
- Brooke Klaus
Teacher, AIU Head Start
"Working with Sprout has been an amazing journey. Not only have they helped the children in the classroom, Sprout has also helped me to become a stronger and better teacher."
- Amanda Baker
Teacher, Blueprints Head Start
Applying Trauma Informed Care approaches within Evidenced Based Treatments across Early Intervention
Presented By: Stephanie D Wier LPC, NCC AND Traci Ziemkiewicz OTR/L
Families and children experience many different stressors when identified as needing early intervention because of a variety of developmental needs. This course will help therapists identify these stressors and incorporate a trauma informed care perspective to improve therapy outcomes. We will further explore definitions of trauma and toxic stress within the family system, identify signs or symptoms, and how to integrate trauma informed care within evidenced based practices across all domains within early intervention services.
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Objectives:
- Discuss the definitions of trauma and toxic stress within the family system and early intervention services.
- Identify signs/symptoms of trauma and toxic stress within the child, family, and/or relationship.
- Review key components of trauma informed care practice within the early intervention system.
- Practice the incorporation of trauma informed care practice within evidenced based practices to improve treatment outcomes.
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Boundaries and Ethics for Home visiting
PRESENTED BY: Erin Troup, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E
DECODING DIFFICULT BEHAVIORS AND APPLYING STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT RESILIENCY
PRESENTED BY: ERIN TROUP, LPC, NCC, CT, IMH-E AND PATTY MAXWELL M.ED., M.S., BSL
Sprout Center for Emotional Growth & Development is happy to work within your agency’s budget and timeline to support a quality program for any size group.
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