Trauma-Informed Practices

Trauma-Informed Practices Curriculum

Trauma-Informed Certificate Areas of Study

The Certificate in Building Resilience through Trauma-Informed Practices includes six sequential, self-paced modules, enabling professionals to apply trauma-informed practices to their specific area of responsibility. The modules will be offered in a master class format, with automated assessments and short written submissions. Each module will include six (6) hours of high value and relevant content including but not limited to reasonable written and other multi-media, as well as interviews with experts.

• Module contents will be in storyboard format, an interactive format.
• There will be one assessment per module, graded with comments by the co-professors, embedded into the final storyboard of each module.
• The participant would need to score 80% to move to the next module and would have unlimited retake opportunities.
• The goal is understanding the content, rather than mastering test-taking.

By applying the theory of andragogy, activities, tests and assessments should be authentic, practical, and experiential, which are preferred by adult learners. The final project in the 6th module will be to create a strategic plan for building resilience through trauma-informed practices at the participant’s home institution and in the person’s area of responsibility. This capstone experience will include mentoring and guidance from the co-professor with over 30 years’ experience in strategic planning in higher education.

Because of I-BRTIP’s interdisciplinary approach, the modules will include ways that faculty and participants can work together to model trauma-informed pedagogy within the program itself by offering choice and flexibility, prioritizing transparency in communication, providing clear instructions, respecting boundaries, and integrating each participant’s home institution into the final project.

Trauma-Informed Practices Modules

1. Understanding the long-term impact of trauma on academic and personal development prior to college
2. Addressing the ramifications of trauma on student performance and retention in higher education
3. Developing strategies for building resilience through trauma-informed practices
4. Mastery of trauma-informed practices in higher education
5. Understanding the legal and ethical implications of trauma-informed practices as they relate to social justice issues on campus and in society
6. Developing a trauma-informed campus culture