Understanding Your Child's Behaviour – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

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Understanding Human Connection – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

Participants will engage in education, discussions, and activities focused on the importance of fostering resilience, boundary creation, and emotional intelligence. The group looks to teach valuable skills for building healthier, more fulfilling connections.

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The Brain Architecture Game – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

Learn about toxic, tolerable, and positive stress, and how to build a brain!

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Setting Boundaries and Limits with Children – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

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Play: The Work of Childhood – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

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Handle with Care – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

We focus on four building blocks: attachment, relationships with others, expressing emotions, and promoting self-esteem.

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Empowered Parenting – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

The goal of this group is for parents to learn positive parenting techniques and develop skills for success.

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Community Resiliency Model (CRM) – Trauma Resource Institute

The primary focus of this skills-based, stabilization program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system.

CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-focused” 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.

CRM’s adaptation to disasters is called the Disaster Relief Mobilization-Community Resiliency Model ™ (DRM-CRM). DRM-CRM is a trauma-informed, resiliency-focused systemic response for how to bring the Community Resiliency Model into disaster settings. It can be implemented in preparation for a community disaster, during a disaster, and post-disaster. For more information about this program, please contact us at hello@communitytri.com.

To register: TRI - Trainings

Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) – Trauma Resource Institute

Designed for clinicians and practitioners, TRM teaches ten somatic skills that support clients in processing overwhelming experiences, completing thwarted biological survival responses, and reconnecting with their natural capacity for well-being.

Especially effective for those impacted by developmental, historical, and intergenerational trauma, TRM offers a compassionate, strengths-based framework grounded in the understanding that the body holds the multi-sensory imprint of trauma.

Drawing from Polyvagal Theory, somatic psychology, neuroplasticity, and sensory integration, TRM practitioners learn how to empower their clients to regulate their autonomic nervous system. TRM provides the missing link in trauma recovery by emphasizing body awareness and bottom-up processing, helping clients access relief, meaning, and greater emotional regulation through the innate wisdom of the body.

Key Features of TRM:

• 💡 Biologically Based: Learn how the body responds to fear and threat and how healing begins by restoring regulation in the autonomic nervous system.

• 🛠 Somatic Tools for Safety: Practice the ten trauma and resiliency-informed skills that help complete thwarted fight/flight responses and reduce intrusive symptoms like flashbacks, anxiety, and dissociation.

• 🌿 From Surviving to Thriving: Support clients in moving beyond survival to reconnect with hope, empowerment, and meaning.

• 🌎 Culturally Responsive & Adaptable: Used globally in diverse settings, from disaster zones to clinical offices, TRM meets clients where they are—honoring the body's wisdom across all cultures and identities.

Come and learn a deeper, embodied approach to trauma recovery - TRM offers a practical, heart-centered path to resilience.

“The body holds the story—and it also holds the key to healing.”

To register: TRI - Trainings

Unconscious Bias & Bias Awareness – Canadian Equality Consulting

Explore the most common types of biases and how they can lead to discrimination, microaggressions, and exclusion. We’ll also delve into the neuroscience behind bias and provide practical strategies to help you identify and mitigate biases, creating a more equitable and inclusive environment.

To register: CEC – UBBA

Over The Rainbow: An Exploration of Trans & Non-Binary History – Canadian Equality Consulting

To register: CEC - OTRETNBH

Over The Rainbow: A Celebration of Gender and Sexual Diversity – Canadian Equality Consulting

The content includes action steps and best practices for what it takes to become an ally and to support the Gender and Sexual Diversity community.

To register: CEC - OTRCGSD

Indigeneity in Turtle Island: Footprints Across These Lands – Canadian Equality Consulting

This course explores the rich and diverse histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous Peoples, gaining a deeper understanding of their enduring legacy and influence. Also learn about meaningful land acknowledgements.

To register: CEC - ITIFATL

Equitable and Inclusive Boards – Canadian Equality Consulting

This is a great program to sign up and complete either as a Board together, or individually. If you complete it together as a Board, you can purchase an add-on for a CEC expert facilitator to lead debrief/discussion sessions with your Board live online or in-person at key points in the program.

To register: CEC - EIB

Equitable and Inclusive Leadership Certification – Canadian Equality Consulting

The curriculum has four courses including advanced DEI fundamentals, privilege, oppression, and biases, inclusive and equitable leadership, and allyship and organizational transformation. Sign up now.

To register: CEC - EILC

Detangling Anti-Fat Bias in the Workplace – Canadian Equality Consulting

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DEI Fundamentals – Canadian Equality Consulting

You will explore essential DEI concepts, including common language and the significance of promoting equity in organizations. Learn about equity-deserving populations, intersectionality, and the dynamics of power and privilege. This course provides the tools and knowledge you need to foster inclusive environments and help advance your organization's DEI goals.

To register: CEC - DEIF

Black History Month: Exploring the Roots of Anti-Black Racism – Canadian Equality Consulting

To understand the impact of anti-Black racism and how it manifests in today's society, it is crucial to learn about significant moments and changemakers in Black history, from both the American and Canadian contexts.

To register: CEC - BHMERABR

Traumatic Event Systems (TES) Training – Center for Trauma Informed Practices

“The Traumatic Event Systems Model is a model that is meant to understand the human systems response to trauma…so it is a model that is applied to both the early, initial response to tragedy, that is also meant to support all levels of the human system – so students, staff, parents and caregivers, in a school based response, or workers and their families in an organizational response – and also address the issue of traumatic aftermath." – J. Kevin Cameron, Executive Director, NACTATR (now CTIP)

The Traumatic Event Systems (TES) Model enhances traditional crisis response practice by providing leaders and professionals with the tools they need to prepare, intervene, and support individuals and communities through the complex and sometimes, lasting effects of trauma.

With the advent of media and social media, we’ve seen how a natural response to trauma can be intensified and amplified far beyond the initial impact zone, needlessly building anger and anxiety within communities. Until recently, the majority of trauma research has focused on the linear impact to the individual; however, the TES Model aims to identify and prevent traumatic events that continuously affect multiple human systems (e.g., families, schools, communities, states, provinces and territories) that may even be located hundreds to thousands of miles away from where the initial trauma occurred.

The TES Model focuses on four phases of assessment and intervention, with necessary distinctions for schools, worksites, and entire communities:

Children and Youth Focus

• Phase I: Initial Response: Child and Youth System (e.g., schools, sports teams, clubs or church youth groups, etc.)

• Phase II: Comprehensive Strategic Assessment: Adult Systems (e.g., teachers, coaches, support workers, etc.)

• Phase III: Community Intervention: Parent & Family System

• Phase IV: Traumatic Aftermath: Preparing for the Process of Recovery

Workplace Focus

• Phase I: Initial Response: Frontline Staff in the Workplace

• Phase II: Comprehensive Strategic Assessment: Adult Systems (e.g., managers & leaders, affiliates, etc.)

• Phase III: Community Intervention: Spouse/Partner & Family System

• Phase IV: Traumatic Aftermath: Preparing for the Process of Recovery

High-Impact Crises or High-Profile Traumatic Events:

• Combination of the above

To register: CTIP - TES

Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA) Training – Center for Trauma Informed Practices

“What VTRA provides is the tool to identify, to develop the database, and to provide an assessment between someone who is talking about violence versus one who is actually becoming operational.” – Dr. Tony Beliz, fmr. Deputy Director, LA County Mental Health Emergency Outreach Bureau

The 10th edition of the ‘National Training VTRA Protocol’ is a practical approach to building teams that can monitor, assess, intervene against, and prevent violence within a community.

VTRA Training instills the perspective that serious violence is an evolutionary process, meaning that pre-incident data is often available to help proactively identify and prevent the occurrence; put simply, VTRA implies that nobody “just snaps”.

The three stages of the VTRA framework are:

• Stage One – Initial data collection and immediate interventions

• Stage Two – Risk evaluation for moderate-to-high-risk situations

• Stage Three – Data-driven and trauma-informed interventions

During VTRA training, typically 60 to 80 participants are led through hands-on situations using real-world examples and actual case studies. The outcome of the training is a team that shares a set of coordinated and unified actions, a common language and concepts, and a mutual vision for success.

The VTRA framework builds rapid communication between functional, multidisciplinary and multiagency teams to quickly assess threat levels and determine appropriate interventions. Because VTRA addresses all forms of violence, the team composition can have permanent members and ad hoc members who are utilized when their areas of specialization are required. This can include Education, Human Resources (HR), Management, Social Work Agencies, Community Mental Health Workers, Police, Hospitals, Probation/Parole, and other professionals.

Through regular touchpoints, software, and resources, CTIP helps our partners implement and sustain VTRA best practices in their communities and networks. Learn more about Outreach, CTIP’s case management and collaboration tool for real-time VTRA data collection, analysis, and intervention strategies.

To register: CTIP - VTRA