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Florida State University offers an online curriculum for a Professional Certification in Trauma & Resilience: Level One
The curriculum enables professionals to develop the knowledge and skills they need to understand the impact of adult and child trauma, along with the keys to resilience. Participants will learn crucial information to improve service delivery to clients, students, human services recipients, patients, and other members of the public.
This self-paced curriculum includes 20 hours of course content and ten chapters of research-based readings, case scenarios, multi-media materials, assignments, and quizzes.
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Why Earn The Professional Certification in Trauma & Resilience?
The Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience through Florida State University’s Center for Professional Development enables professionals to develop knowledge and skills to improve service delivery in a wide variety of human services.
The Professional certification offers the following:
- Validation to your employer, colleagues, and clients that you have received professional training from a prominent university
- A thorough understanding of the core concepts of both a trauma-informed approach and the keys to resilience
- Confidence that you are able to incorporate knowledge of trauma and resilience into your own practice
- The ability to assist leadership in establishing, strengthening, and maintaining the principles of trauma and resilience throughout the organization.
Benefits of this Course Include
- Enhancing your professional knowledge, skills, and career potential.
- A transformative understanding of how stress from Adverse Childhood Experiences can affect the developing brain and impact maladaptive client behavior.
- A powerful new perspective on trauma-informed approaches to effective service delivery. A discovery of the building blocks of resilience and the hope they offer for healing.
- Increased self-awareness, a new outlook on personal development, and ways to avoid secondary traumatization.
- Confidence in your ability to enhance your agency, unit, or teams’ effectiveness.
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Advisory Council
The research team at the Institute for Trauma & Resilience Studies appreciates the expertise of our Advisory Review Board Members:
James Clark, Ph.D., LCSW
Suzanne Harrison, M.D.
Carol Edwards, MSW, Ed.D., LCSW
Craig Stanley, Ph.D., LCSW
Mimi Graham, Ph.D.
Amy Coren, Ph.D.
Shalay Jackson, MSW, D.P.H.
Machelle D. Madsen Thompson, Ph.D, LCSW
Joedrecka Brown Speights, M.D., FAAFP
This Professional Certification was created by the Institute for Trauma & Resilience Studies
Karen Oehme, J.D., Director
Ann Perko, J.D., Director of Research Dissemination
Lyndi Bradley, MSW, Ed.D., Director of Professional Development
Frequently Asked Questions:
Who can register for this training?
The training is non-credit professional development and is, therefore, open to the public. Participants do not need to apply to the University. Rather, they simply have to register and submit their payment.
Who should register for this training?
This course enables professionals to develop the knowledge and skills they need to understand the impact of adult and child trauma, along with the keys to resilience. It is specifically designed for a multidisciplinary audience, with content that will inform and advance the knowledge and skills of professionals in many fields such as:
- Social Services Providers, Victim Advocates, Child Welfare Staff, Guardians ad Litem, and Counselors & Psychologists, Clergy
- First Responders, Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, & EMS
- K-12 Educators, Higher Education Administrators, Pre-K Teachers & Childcare Providers
- Medical Professionals, Physicians, & Nurses
- Lawyers, Judges, & Legal Assistants
- Media Professionals
Do I need to apply to the program?
No, there is no application process to participate in this program. This is a non-credit professional development/continuing education opportunity that is open to the public.
Is the registration fee different for non-Florida residents?
No. Participants are charged the same course fee ($349 for Level One and $299 for Level Two) regardless of where they reside.
Are there educational requirements or prerequisites to participate in this training?
While there are no special degree requirements to participate in this training, please note that the level of instruction is that of an upper-division college course.
What credentials can I earn?
Upon successful completion of each course, students are issued a downloadable Certificate of Completion. Additionally, various professions receive Continuing Education Units or In-Service Training hours. Please refer to each Level’s page for complete information. As a reminder, this is a noncredit program which does not earn academic credit.
What is the format of the program?
The program is self-paced and fully online. Participants have 24/7 access to the course materials so they can work around their busy schedules.
Participants must work through each chapter module completely before the chapter quiz is released. Participants must earn at least an 80% on the quiz before the next chapter is released. The quiz can be retaken an unlimited number of times.
Upon successful completion of the last chapter (Chapter 10 in Level One and Chapter 8 in Level Two), the Final Exam will be released. Participants must score at least an 80% to pass the exam. The exam can also be taken an unlimited number of times.
Once the participant achieves a passing score in the Final Exam, the Feedback Survey will be released. Participants must complete the Feedback Survey in order for the Professional Certification to be released and downloaded.
How long does the program take to complete?
Level One includes 20 hours of course content and ten chapters of research-based readings, case scenarios, multi-media materials, assignments, and quizzes.
Level Two includes eight chapters and 15 hours of course content with research-based readings, case scenarios, multi-media materials, assignments, and quizzes
Where do I take the training and when does it start?
The training portal for this program is accessed from your student dashboard on fsulearn.fsu.edu. This is NOT the same place where participants registered. Participants will be able to access and start the training once payment has been submitted and processed and login credentials have been provided.
Must the courses be taken in a specific order?
Yes. Level One must be successfully completed before Level Two can be accessed.
What is the grading scale for the program?
Participants must obtain a grade of 80% or better to receive credit for each course.
Do you offer discounts to non-profits?
The vast majority of our participants come from non-profit organizations. As such, we did everything in our power to keep the cost of the training as low as possible. So, while we do not offer discounts to non-profits specifically, we do offer discounts to the following populations:
- Active and inactive U.S. Military
- FSU Alumni
- FSU Students, Faculty, & Staff
How do I obtain the discount?
You need a promo code that you MUST enter during your registration process. This cannot be applied retroactively. To obtain the promo code you must supply the following information for each population (email to ITRS-Pathways@fsu.edu):
- Active and inactive U.S. Military
- Send an email from your .mil account, OR
- Scan and email your military orders, OR
- Scan and email you military ID
- FSU Alumni
- Full name as it was when you attended FSU, and
- Date of Birth, and
- Graduation Year
- FSU Student, Faculty, & Staff
- Full name as is found in the Student or Faculty/Staff database
Do you offer group discounts?
Associations, agencies, and organizations who are looking into additional training for their staff should contact us, at ITRS-Pathways@fsu.edu, to discuss potential discounts prior to registering their staff.