Open for Business: A Trauma-Informed Series. Session 1: Making Connections: Creating a Trauma-Safe Environment

Register in Compass by searching FDEV 6423 or clicking here. Build a brain-based mindset to encourage safety, belonging, and resilience to engage, teach, and support students from classroom to graduation. A brain-based mindset implements trauma-informed principles by understanding the prevalence of trauma and how one's trauma history impacts brain function, cognitive processes, emotional regulation, attention, organization, and overall ability to be successful in and outside the classroom. When our students display disconnected, disrespectful, defensive or antagonistic behaviors, faculty often feel helpless to connect. Build a brain based mindset to create a new classroom climate and discover how increased connection increases student success.