Shifting from Trauma-Informed to Healing Centered Practices in Schools (1.5 CEs)

Course Description:  A Healing-Centered approach is holistic involving culture, civic action, and collective healing. A Healing-Centered approach highlights the ways in which trauma and healing are experienced collectively. Healing-Centered Engagement expands how we think about trauma and offers an holistic approach to restore wellbeing. 

Learning Goals:

1.  Participants will distinguish trauma-informed care from healing centered engagement strategies.
2.  Participants will apply a salutogenic approach to current policies and practices.
3.   Participants ill practice how to apply a healing-centered engagement approach by analyzing case studies.

Speaker:

Kenneth Bourne, MSW, LSW (he/him) is the founder/CEO of Bourne ANEW LLC. He provides healing-centered engagement interventions to Black boys and young men. Clinically, there are no diagnoses or language to effectively communicate the systemic trauma absorbed by Black bodies in America, allowing for common misdiagnosing, over-diagnosing, misunderstanding, and ignoring of lived experiences. Kenneth helps his clientele take back their power via integration within the body, people, and environment.

Content level: Beginning / Intermediate / Advanced

Target Audience: School Social Workers

Refund policy: No refunds will be given.

School Social Work Association of America, 1789, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. School Social Work Association of America maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 7/27/2023-7/27/2026. 

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