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Live webinar: Understanding features of trauma: The importance of in-depth trauma screening instruments

Date: October 17, 2025 | Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET

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Trauma-Informed Practice

This workshop provides an overview of role and function of case management in adult mental health and addictions services.  Participants will be presented with foundational concepts and skills required in the provision of effective case management. The practical application will be reinforced through large and small group discussion using various client studies.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: New Directions in Trauma and Addiction Treatment

This webinar introduces key concepts from the book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (Routledge, 2021). This session challenges the traditional top-down approaches to trauma and addiction, advocating for a transformative, body-centered appraoch.

The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Radical Approach for Treating Trauma and Addiction

This full day workshop will explore the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM), a radical approach to treating trauma and addiction that challenges the current models of treatment by deconstructing the conventional top-down, capitalistic, and white supremacy-based paradigms. Developed over forty years of clinical practice, the FSPM is rooted in five interconnected theoretical frameworks that celebrates the wisdom of the body.

Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Elevating Agency, Resistance and Responses 

This full day workshop examines Narrative Therapy approaches that empower individuals to reclaim their lives from trauma stories by uncovering alternative narratives of hope, acts of resistance, skills in living and surviving and the many unacknowledged ways in which people respond to hardship.

Healing From Our Past: A Trauma-Focused Introduction to EMDR Therapy

Join us for an introductory webinar on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, focusing on its principles, evidence base, and application in trauma treatment. EMDR therapy will be presented as a transdiagnostic approach and its applicability to PTSD, Complex PTSD and racial trauma will be explored. Attendees will gain insights into key concepts of psychotraumatology, supported by case examples based on composites for client confidentiality.

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Refugees and Trauma: Understanding and Supporting Resilience

Refugees are vulnerable and may experience post-traumatic stress because of their circumstances. However, their stories also demonstrate strength and resilience. This webinar explores the stages of regulating and resolving the impacts of trauma, as well as protective steps for enhancing helper wellbeing.

This webinar is free for all to attend!

This program provides a comprehensive introduction to key aspects of early childhood and brain development, as well as the crucial role caregivers and educators play in helping children learn effective stress-management strategies. This program contains practice and curriculum-based strategies to help young children learn how to manage stress.

The program features skill-based activities that:
- Help children gain a sense of control

Neuroscience of trauma and resilience: What we need to understand about the brain to support healing

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 1

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Dates: April 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, and 24, 2024
Time: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Natalie Zlodre, MSW, RSW

Call out for Lived Experience & Recovery Network’s Conference Proposals!

Lived Experience & Recovery Network (LERN) invites individuals to submit proposals for this year’s 2024 LERN Conference. This conference is taking place on July 11 & 12, 2024, in North Bay at The Grande Event Centre! This year’s theme is Compassionate Spaces!

Certificate in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) level 2: Application to specific populations
 

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute