Training and Education

This training and education hub was created to help Edmontonians come together to support one another in living happier, more meaningful lives. Whether you're caring for family, friends, coworkers, or even strangers, we all play a role in looking out for each other.

These courses are designed to support your growth—whether you're a peer, a service provider, or someone just trying to help. Topics include mental health and addictions, suicide prevention, peer support, poverty and housing, parenting, and more. All trainings emphasize approaches that are fair, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and rooted in community values.

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

Learn about the science behind your child’s behaviour and how to nurture healthy and happy relationships with your family.

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Understanding Human Connection – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

This group focuses on enhancing interpersonal skills through effective communication, conflict resolution, self-care, and strategies for dealing with difficult situations.

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The Brain Architecture Game – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

This tabletop game builds understanding of the powerful role of experiences on early brain development: what promotes it, what derails it, and with what consequences to society.

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

Together with other parents, learn tips to support setting up rules, limits, boundaries, and realistic expectations for you and your child.

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

Discuss the parent’s role in play and learn how to set up your home environments to keep your children safe, engaged, and growing through play.

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Handle with Care – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

This group focuses on supporting children’s mental health.

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Empowered Parenting – Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

Participants in this group will discuss developing positive relationships and positive parenting skills such as health, safety, behaviour and development of children, through interactive activities, videos, and conversations.

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Unconscious Bias & Bias Awareness – Canadian Equality Consulting

In this course, you'll examine personal and organizational biases and learn how to recognize, address, and challenge them.

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

The second mini course in the Over the Rainbow series to celebrate gender and diverse communities. This course will build on what you've learned in course 1 and discuss an exploration of trans and non-binary history across the globe.

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

A comprehensive review of key 2SLGBTQIA+ terminology and front-page moments in Canada’s queer history.

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

This course offers an exploration of the histories of Indigenous Peoples in Turtle Island (Canada and the United States focus), highlighting the significance of National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada.

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Equitable and Inclusive Boards – Canadian Equality Consulting

An asynchronous program designed specifically to support Boards of Directors and aspiring Board Directors in building equity and inclusion into their governance, strategic planning, policy setting, and all other board practices.

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Equitable and Inclusive Leadership Certification – Canadian Equality Consulting

CEC is proud to offer the first of its kind Equitable and Inclusive Leadership Certification. This is a leadership development program specifically tailored to spearheading diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in your organization with immediate actionable tools and strategies.

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

Learn the correct terminology to use, how anti-fat bias appears in the workplace, and how that ties to other systems of oppression and then learn about the many common misconceptions. End with clear and concise ways to combat anti-fat bias.

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DEI Fundamentals – Canadian Equality Consulting

Gain a strong foundational understanding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in this course.

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

This course will equip participants with the knowledge, tools, concepts and resources to identify the prevalence of anti-Black racism, and learn how to actively and intentionally build an anti-racist workplace.

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

Train and certify individuals in your organization on the TES model, a responsive methodology that addresses the systemic aftermath of a traumatic event on individuals and communities.

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

Train and certify individuals in your organization on VTRA, the trauma-informed threat assessment framework that aims to identify and intervene within potential pathways to violence.

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Foundation in Trauma Response – Center for Trauma Informed Practices

This course will present our own evolutionary process for understanding trauma, and introduce you to the early research, concepts, and variables that led to the development of the Traumatic Event Systems (TES™) model of crisis and trauma response.

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Foundation in Threat Assessment – Center for Trauma Informed Practices

This course will present our own evolutionary process for understanding violence, and introduce you to the early research, concepts, and variables that led to the development of the comprehensive Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA™) model.