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INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

HUMAN ARCHITECT STUDIO

INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

BAYSIDE CONTINUING EDUCATION AND DEVELOP

Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter their sense of security, making them feel helpless and vulnerable in a dangerous world. This course will explore both emotional and psychological trauma, risk factors, and symptoms.

BAYSIDE CONTINUING EDUCATION AND DEVELOP

Psychological First Aid is an evidence-based approach designed to help individuals cope with the immediate psychological impact of crises, disasters, and traumatic events. It is used by mental health professionals, first responders, and community volunteers to provide emotional and practical support in a way that promotes resilience and recovery. This course will review the core principles of how and when to provide Psychological first aid.

ACHIEVE CE - EDUCATION SERVICES

The West Virginia Social Worker Online CE Renewal Package - 20 Hours fulfills online requirements for West Virginia Social Workers. Home Study Courses included in this package are: 1) Mental Health of Veterans and their Families; 2) Professional Ethics and Boundaries for Mental Health Professionals; 3) Suicide Assessment, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment; 4) Current and Future Roles of Telehealth; 5) Community Conversations On Mental Health; 6) Supporting Brain Development in Traumatized Youth. AchieveCE courses can be taken at-your-own-pace, online from any device and they report to CE Broker within 24 hours.

SANTE CENTER FOR HEALING

CE Presentation Overview: Why is it relevant to learn, understand, and acknowledge the hispanic community? The Hispanic or Latinx population in the U.S., which includes people of any race, was 62.1 million in 2020. It is a given that you will encounter clients that are hispanic or that have a hispanic heritage. Knowing the commonality and unique differences of this community is indispensable to be a competent and effective mental health provider. CE Presentation Objectives: 1. Learn the cultural elements in the Hispanic Community & differences between generations 2. Know the impact of transgenerational and intergenerational trauma 3. Learn best treatment and interventions for the Hispanic community

PREMIERE EDUCATION

This course explores how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) increase addiction risk and disrupt neurodevelopment, stress regulation, and long-term health outcomes across the lifespan. Participants will analyze the biological, psychological, and social mechanisms linking early adversity to substance use disorders and behavioral health challenges. Using a trauma-informed framework, the course examines the impact of ACEs on brain development, attachment patterns, and toxic stress while providing practical strategies for screening, prevention, and treatment. Learners will apply ACE-informed approaches within clinical and community settings to reduce stigma, strengthen patient engagement, and promote resilience across generations.

HEALTH FORUM ONLINE

The Screening and Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD: Clinical Applications for Civilians and Veterans online CE course provides a review of the definition of trauma, the major types of traumas, prevalence rates of trauma exposure, common reactions to trauma including PTSD, and risk and protective factors for the development of PTSD after trauma exposure. The history of the PTSD diagnosis is reviewed including the recent changes to the PTSD diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), 5th Edition.

ACHIEVE CE - EDUCATION SERVICES

This Posttraumatic Stress and Spinal Cord Injury Insights online CE course provides an overview of factors necessary to equip clinicians to identify Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in response to life-altering medical conditions, such as spinal cord injury (SCI), and to provide therapeutic services to these individuals.

BIOLOGIX SOLUTIONS LLC

Suicide intervention and prevention for healthcare workers course reviews relevant etiology, terminology and statistics related to suicide, including the increasing prevalence of healthcare worker suicide. This course will also examine the risk factors for suicide and the clinical manifestations of burnout, compassion fatigue (CF), and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in healthcare workers. Finally, this course will review screening for suicide and prevention strategies that can reduce the incidence of suicide, specifically for healthcare workers.

SOUL BIRD CONSULTING

Immerse yourself into the foundational elements of trauma-responsive care, the ways in which trauma impacts the brain, body, and behavioral patterns, and unpacking key insights offered by experts in the field of neuroscience in this interactive program. The Biographical Timeline Facilitators Cohort is an 8-month hybrid program that works to deepen participants' understanding and practice of using the timeline framework to successfully learn from a person's biography. Training is conducted in 12 sessions on a semi-monthly basis and paired with online learning modules. Visit out website for more details.

HUMAN ARCHITECT STUDIO

Grief following homicide is a distinct clinical and communal experience that demands specialized knowledge and relational sensitivity. This module addresses traumatic bereavement in communities where homicide is not an isolated event but a recurring, overlapping reality that reverberates across social networks. Participants gain both clinical grounding and community-centered approaches to mourning, equipping them to support individuals, families, and communities in the aftermath of homicide loss. This module aligns with the NASW Code of Ethics principles of competence, the importance of human relationships, and service.

RELATIONSHIP TOOLSHOP INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE, LLC

Social Workers and helping professionals are often exposed to the emotional weight of others' trauma, which can lead to secondary trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Resilience in Practice is an interactive CEU training designed to help professionals recognize signs of secondary trauma, understanding its impact, and implement practical strategies to build personal and professional resilience. Participants will explore evidence-based approaches to burnout, enhance self-care, and maintain effectiveness in their roles. Through guided self-assessments, reflective exercises, and group discussions, attendees will leave with a personalized action plan to safeguard their well-being while continuing to provide compassionate, high-quality care to clients.

RELATIONSHIP TOOLSHOP INTERNATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE, LLC

Social Workers and helping professionals are often exposed to the emotional weight of others' trauma, which can lead to secondary trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. Resilience in Practice is an interactive CEU training designed to help professionals recognize signs of secondary trauma, understanding its impact, and implement practical strategies to build personal and professional resilience. Participants will explore evidence-based approaches to burnout, enhance self-care, and maintain effectiveness in their roles. Through guided self-assessments, reflective exercises, and group discussions, attendees will leave with a personalized action plan to safeguard their well-being while continuing to provide compassionate, high-quality care to clients.

CE LEARNING SYSTEMS / IMPACT CE

This study explores the psychological effects of spiritual struggles and self-blame among adolescents who disclosed sexual abuse and were awaiting treatment. Using a longitudinal design, the authors found that higher levels of divine spiritual struggles and self-blame at intake significantly predicted more severe trauma symptoms at the beginning of treatment, even after controlling for baseline trauma symptoms. These findings highlight...

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

Nutritional Psychology: Bridging Brain, Body, and Behavior is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that explores the relationship between food and mood, and how lifestyle factors influence mental health outcomes. Nutritional psychology is an emerging interdisciplinary field that examines the dynamic relationship between dietary patterns, nutrient status, and mental health outcomes. This course introduces the foundational principles of nutritional psychology, emphasizing the bidirectional relationship between nutrition, neurobiology, and psychological functioning. Historically, mental health care has focused primarily on psychotherapy and pharmacologic interventions; however, growing evidence demonstrates that diet quality, nutrient availability, gut microbiota, and metabolic health significantly influence mood regulation, cognitive function, and stress resilience. Key biological mechanisms underlying this relationship include neurotransmitter synthesis, immune signaling, endocrine regulation through the hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and communication along the microbiota-gut-brain axis. Current research highlights several nutritional factors associated with mental health outcomes, including whole-diet interventions such as Mediterranean-style dietary patterns, omega-3 fatty acids, micronutrient sufficiency, and the impact of ultra-processed food consumption. Additionally, hormonal balance, macronutrient distribution, and micronutrient cofactors play critical roles in the synthesis and regulation of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine, glutamate, and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Chronic stress, inflammation, gut dysbiosis, and trauma-related dysregulation of the HPA axis further complicate the relationship between diet and psychological well-being. Through a biopsychosocial lens, this course also explores how lifestyle factors - including sleep, movement, hydration, and social connection - interact with nutrition to influence mental health outcomes. Clinical case studies illustrate how chronic trauma, dietary insufficiency, medication use, and physiological dysregulation converge to affect both psychological and physical health. Collectively, the evidence supports integrating nutritional assessment and intervention into mental health care as an adjunctive, individualized approach. Nutritional psychology therefore offers a promising framework for bridging brain, body, and behavior while expanding collaborative care models aimed at improving both mental and physical health outcomes. Course Outline: Introduction Section 1: Nutrition and Mental Health Section 2: Neurotransmitters and Mood Section 3: Macronutrients and Mood Section 4: Micronutrients and Mood Section 5: Trauma-Informed Nutritional Psychology Section 6: Ethical Collaborative Care Conclusion Course #21-66 | 2026 | 15 posttest questions | Mobile-Friendly

ACHIEVE CE - EDUCATION SERVICES

This training equips healthcare providers to bridge the identification gap by transitioning from clinical intuition to an evidence-based assessment framework. Participants analyze the Action, Means, Purpose (AMP) model to differentiate trafficking from smuggling and review how reporting duties, documentation practices, and institutional response requirements may vary by state. The curriculum focuses on multifaceted screening tools, safe-separation protocols, and forensic documentation using ICD-10-CM coding. By evaluating systemic vulnerabilities and ethical tensions between autonomy and mandatory reporting, this course prepares practitioners to respond to suspected trafficking in a trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and legally aware manner. A significant practice gap exists in healthcare settings where clinicians miss many trafficking victims because assessment methods are inconsistent and often rely too heavily on unstructured judgment. While many providers recognize general red flags, specialized skills for safe separation, trauma-informed interviewing, objective documentation, and identifying markers of coercive control remain underutilized. In addition, state laws and facility requirements regarding reporting, signage, staff protections, and referral pathways may change over time and differ by jurisdiction. This course addresses these gaps by linking clinical evidence with practical response strategies, enabling providers to document suspected exploitation accurately, respect patient autonomy when legally appropriate, and respond in a manner that aligns with applicable state law and facility policy.

BIOLOGIX SOLUTIONS LLC

The Suicide Prevention Training for Healthcare Providers is a course that covers important topics related to suicide, including its causes, terminology, and statistics. It also focuses on the increasing prevalence of healthcare worker suicide. The course will help you recognize risk factors for suicide, as well as the clinical manifestations of burnout, compassion fatigue (CF), and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in healthcare workers. You will also learn about screening for suicide and prevention strategies that can reduce the incidence of suicide, specifically for healthcare workers.

THE INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE MINDFULNESS

Discovered by Dr. Francine Shapiro, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is one of the most researched and utilized methods in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other forms of human distress connected to trauma. Completing our full basic training approved by the EMDR International Association is a multi-tiered process of which this three-day training is your second part. Part II Training (3 Days= 21 total hours of Lecture and Practicum): Enhanced practicum content, covering best practices for using EMDR Therapy with special populations and in the tricky scenarios of clinical practice; advanced content on ethics and neurobiology also covered, in addition to working with the art of case conceptualization.

THE INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE MINDFULNESS

The four healing arts of drumming, dancing, storytelling, and silence are the foundational practices in indigenous approaches to healing. This presentation specifically explores the rich tradition of drumming and dancing, both bilateral practices, in African cultures. Content is also delivered, with an experiential component, on story telling and silence. Historical, anthropological, and psychological connections are explained, with numerous opportunities to connect personally with the material. Implications for EMDR therapists, specifically in our ever-evolving inquiry on mechanisms of action in EMDR therapy are discussed. Themes of empowerment for BIPOC clients are highlighted through cultural connection and attunement, specifically through the practice of self-tapping or personal drumming within EMDR therapy as options for BLS/DAS. Supporting BIPOC clients in exploring the connection to their indigenous origins, and the healing practices that accompany those origins, can be critical to the trauma recovery process. Participants will also have a chance to discuss the content in small breakout groups that challenge them to consider the role of the EMDR therapist as an agent of change in a diverse world. This day- long course is led by the teaching wisdom of Dr. Kellie Kirksey, an African American EMDR and expressive arts therapist with extensive training and personal practice in the healing traditions of African and India. EMDR therapy author/ trainer and expressive arts therapy trainer Dr. Jamie Marich joins to offer her commentary from an EMDR therapy perspective. The co-presentation components will offer participants a model for how therapists can better serve their BIPOC clients in trauma-focused care.

THE INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE MINDFULNESS

Yoga Skills for EMDR Therapists:Enhancing Preparation, Case Conceptualization, and Managing Difficult Situations in Reprocessing: The clinical and research evidence for yoga as a supplementary practice in the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related disorders continues to mount. There are many natural applications to how skills, techniques, and philosophy of yoga can work alongside the eight phases of EMDR therapy and the AIP model to more holistically prepare EMDR therapists for managing difficult situations in Phases 3-6 like abreactions and working with dissociation. Even if an EMDR therapist is not a formally registered yoga teacher, the willingness to build and grown their existing yoga practice, can give them numerous strategies for enhancing their efficacy in history taking and preparation/resourcing (Phases 1-2) which naturally translates to closure and re-evaluation (Phases 7-8). This workshop is designed to give EMDR therapists a complete toolkit for seamlessly integrating EMDR therapy and the skills, techniques, and philosophy of yoga. The presenters are both EMDR therapy trainers and yoga teachers and are poised to speak to how one practice informs the other in their lives and in working with clients. EMDR therapists are also encouraged to continue cultivating their own yoga and meditation practices to help them stay more focused, alert, and able to maintain the calming presence during difficult EMDR sessions and as well as a measure for burnout prevention. No previous experience with yoga is necessary and all practices can be modified for a chair. Participants are encouraged to dress comfortably. Mats and props are available onsite or you can bring your own. *Partial training in EMDR therapy is required

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK

This training offers a view of healing justice practices as defined by Cara Page, "Healing justice...identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence, and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds" https://www.healingbychoicedetroit.com/what-is-healing-justice . This training promotes a healing justice framework for personal and collective transformative healing. While centering the needs of minoritized people, this training will seek to connect the dots between indigenous healing methods with the principles of restorative justice, and political action designed to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression. Behavioral Health staff often work within a medical model system where the needs of the body are bifurcated from the needs of the mind and soul. Traditional mental health treatment has demonized, criminalized, and pathologized minoritized population' expressions of being that have been in conflict with majority perspectives of mental wellness. This training will support a wholistic view of mental health treatment that will challenge the status quo ways of working with and on behalf of client systems. Training participants will leave this training with a clearer understanding of the ways in which a healing justice approach can support wholistic healing while offering practical means of engaging whole heartedly in sustainable social justice work within the behavioral health context. Objectives: 1) Participants will be able to describe and share with others the concept of healing justice. (2) Participants will be able to evaluate the ways that traditional behavioral health treatment has oppressed minoritized client systems. (3) Participants will be able to analyze and synthesize strategies to center the needs of minoritized client systems within the behavioral health system that support service users in identifying and working to dismantle systems of oppression within that system. (4) Participants will be able to identify collective, indigenous, culturally informed practices that support wholistic health, healing, and the wellbeing of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ service users and colleagues.