ACEs, Resilience, and Secondary Traumatic Stress for Helping Professionals: SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSE

By the end of this learning event participants will:

1. Increase knowledge about:
   1. The ACE study and its main discoveries
   2. The effects of toxic stress on brain development, the body’s stress response systems, and a host of health outcomes later in life
   3. Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs), protective factors and systems that trumps ACEs and promote resilience
   4. The 7 Cs Model of Resilience
   5. Introduction to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), Compassion Fatigue and Burnout and its prevalence among prevention specialists
   6. Identifying risk factors, vulnerabilities, and triggers for Secondary Traumatic Stress
   7. Recognizing signs and symptoms of Secondary Traumatic Stress in oneself and others and what to do
2. Learn and practice skills development for stress management, self-regulation, co-regulation, grounding, and self-care for prevention professionals
3. Lay the groundwork for a Community of Trauma-Informed and Resilience-Oriented Prevention Professionals