Colorado PLT offers both in-person and online trainings designed to enhance your teaching skills and increase comfort teaching outdoors – in urban, suburban, or rural environments. Receive multi-disciplinary, hands-on lessons aligned with state standards. Put the materials to use right away in your own classroom, playground, or nature center.
Roots of Resilience: Trauma Informed Tools for Education and Outreach
When: 2-4pm January 7th & 14th Participants need to attend both days New dates coming soon.
Where: Zoom
Cost: *Sliding scale $20, $40, $60
Register: https://caee.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=550
This two part virtual workshop is designed to equip educators and natural resource professionals with essential trauma informed strategies to enhance your work with diverse populations. Whether you’re working in classrooms, community programs, or environmental initiatives, this training provides practical tools for fostering trauma resilience. Through a blend of expert insights and hands-on activities, participants are invited to:
- Engage with the concept of trauma and its effects on learning, behavior, and engagement.
- Explore trauma-informed principles and how they can be integrated into educational practices.
- Practice modifying lesson plans with a trauma-informed approach.
If you’re new to trauma-informed approaches or seeking to deepen your practice, this workshop will support your ongoing efforts to create inclusive, supportive spaces for learning not only for students but educators as well. Learn more about a Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching.
Yasmeen Hossain, PhD
Associate Director of the Oregon Natural Resources Education Program, Oregon State University Extension
Yasmeen has been combining her experience in the mental health field with her background in environmental science for over 20 years, serving as an executive director, trauma practitioner, program manager, educator, and teacher trainer throughout the US and internationally. She is passionate about tending not only to our ecosystems and natural resources but also the people who steward them. Yasmeen earned a PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
*Special thanks to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for providing grant funding to broaden the reach of this training. Free scholarships are available. Please contact PLT Coordinator Danielle Ardrey for information- danielle.ardrey@colostate.edu 970-732-0569
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