Evidence informed curriculum, adapted for Georgia specific audiences.

Healthy minds enable individuals to reach their full potential. Businesses, child and family serving professionals, faith communities, and individuals can promote trauma-informed environments that help everyone manage stress and build stronger connections within the community. The training curriculum is an evidence informed curriculum, developed using a robust body of literature by Dr. Linda Chamberlain and adapted for Georgia specific audiences.

• Interactive, discussion-based curriculum that helps people better understand trauma, brain development, resilience, and health

• Concrete knowledge about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) using Georgia data

• Strategies for increasing and improving your own connections and tools for strengthening both personal and community resilience

Strengthening Families™ is a research-informed framework and approach to preventing child abuse and neglect. Developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, this approach focuses on family and community strengths and Protective Factors rather than risk factors. Protective Factors are what helps children and families thrive despite whatever risk factors they might face. Protective factors aren’t just for families that are at risk for child abuse and neglect because all families benefit from having strong protective factors.

Six individual 2-hour SFG training modules can be presented:

· Overview- An Effective Approach to Supporting Families and Communities

· Parental Resilience

· Social Connections

· Knowledge of Child Development

· Concrete Support in Times of Need

· Social and Emotional Competence in Children

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® Workshops introduces participants to six wellness skills. CRM Workshops help create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” individuals and communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.

The two fundamental goals of CRM are to help adults and children learn to track their own nervous systems in order to bring the body and mind back into greater balance, and to encourage people to pass the skills along to family, friends and their wider community.  

CRM can be used as self-care for those community members who are the front-line workers, responding to crisis situations or who live in highly traumatized and/or marginalized communities.

A variety of trainings are available through Georgia State University's Child Welfare Training Collaborative, including:

A variety of trainings are available through Georgia State University, including:

· Trauma 101: Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children

· Brain 101: Understanding the Impact of Trauma on the Brain

· Psychological Safety: A Pathway to Resilience

· Recognizing and Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress

· Trauma to Resilience: Strategies to Support Children's Well-Being

· Unmasking the Trauma of Bullying

· Delivering Trauma-Informed Customer Service

· Differences are Good! An Exploration of Cultural Competence

Define and defeat the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in our communities.

Veto Violence is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s training offering to assist in defining and defeating the prevalence of ACEs in our communities.

Research shows that a combination of individual, relational, community, and societal factors contribute to the risk of experiencing child abuse and neglect. For example, some risk factors include parental history of child abuse or neglect, limited parenting knowledge or skills, and families and communities experiencing social isolation and violence.

Research is helping identify factors that help reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. Nurturing, safe, and stable family relationships, supportive communities, and access to health and social services, are promising protective factors.