AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS ACTIVITY, THE PARTICIPANT SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

• Describe the concepts of Positive Psychology and the benefits of utilizing it to manage every day, and long term, stress. 
• Discuss the concepts of the Big Five Personality Traits and how these can be utilized to overcome barriers in your life and overall society.
• Describe how to become an advocate to make change in your community utilizing what is innately part of you to introduce tools that can be used to develop resilience and hope (such as the Four S’s.
• Identify the core competencies of SEL. 
• Recognize the research and evidence behind SEL programming.
• Examine an evidence base of behavioral effects and engage in a discourse about the findings.
• Describe historical and racial trauma through the eyes of the Black/African American Experience.
• Identify the themes and the structures that sustain generational trauma, the systemic barriers, and racial disparities.
• Identify opportunities to remove systemic racial barriers through trauma-informed organizational, policy, and environmental change.
• Describe how Historical Trauma presents today,
• Recognize the impact of racial trauma, describe symptoms of racial trauma, understand similarities/differences between Trauma-Informed Care & Racially Conscious Trauma Informed Care.
• Identify strategies to address racial trauma in a racially conscious way.
• Describe the process of institutional change in an organization over decades.
• Explain the challenges created by institutional change and two strategies to address those challenges,
• Identity five areas that need to be considered when implementing DEI efforts in an organization.
• Discuss what inclusive conversations are and why they are important.
• Recognize cultural competence and humility to build better collaborative relationships.
• Describe what unconscious bias is, how to overcome it, and how overcoming it supports trauma-informed initiatives.
• Convey an understanding of stress and trauma.
• Recognize the importance of a Bottom-Up approach to treating Trauma symptoms.
• Introduce an awareness of an in-built skill for resiliency, the self-regulation offered by world renowned TRE®.
• Discuss the prevalence of classism experienced by BIPOC students and clients in higher education and other settings.
• Discuss the prevalence of various resiliency factors experienced by BIPOC individuals and communities.
• Recognize ways to advocate for BIPOC individuals and communities.
• Identify 5 areas of ethical risk in the treatment of traumatized individuals. 
• Describe several ways in which the trauma-informed care philosophy is attentive to ethics issues as outline by the American Psychological Association and other professional organizations. 
• Describe several strategies that support self-reflection, self-management, and self-care when ethical dilemmas arise in the provision of services to traumatized individuals.
• Describe the role of trauma in suicide behaviors.
• Define the role of trauma in coping with suicide loss and in post-traumatic growth.
• Identify specific trauma informed strategies to utilize with survivors of suicide via promoting each principle of trauma informed care.