Description
This course qualifies for GH CEUs.
This training equips youth service providers with actionable strategies to bridge the gap between empathy and tangible support for children and families navigating trauma, instability, and systemic barriers. Drawing from real-world, cross-sector experience in youth development, behavioral health, and human services leadership, the session provides an in-depth exploration of how trauma manifests in behavior, how current systems often retraumatize, and how providers can use their existing tools and funding streams to create concrete, stabilizing supports.
Participants will gain skills to recognize trauma-adaptive behaviors not as survival responses, not pathology, and will explore how to shift from siloed service delivery to integrated, community-rooted solutions. The training also includes practical guidance on identifying flexible funding opportunities through commonly under-leveraged eligible activities in state and federal grants.
This course is especially relevant for professionals working within or alongside child welfare, juvenile justice, and family-serving systems. By centering a human-centered, trauma-informed lens, youth-serving professionals will leave with clearer strategies to advocate for systemic change while improving the therapeutic stability of the families they support.
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Instructor: Tekoah Boatner
Tekoah Boatner is a board-certified Human Services Specialist, Certified Nonprofit Professional, and Project Management Professional with over 20 years of experience designing trauma-informed, healing-centered programs for system-involved youth. Through her work at TKB Strategies and All Voices Coaching, she supports providers in child welfare, juvenile justice, housing, and behavioral health sectors by offering scalable, culturally grounded solutions rooted in both research and lived experience. Tekoah regularly trains clinicians, frontline staff, and administrators on trauma, PACEs science, and systems change strategies, helping them integrate resilience-building practices into their work with disconnected and intersectional youth.
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Other Important Information:
Accommodations: To request additional assistance or accommodations, please contact Brisa Romero, Training Assistant, at [email protected].
Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Ivon Favela, Deputy Director of Training at [email protected]
CE Certificates: Upon course survey completion, participants will be awarded CE certificates.
Refund/Cancelation Policy: All requests for cancellation and refunds must be submitted in writing to [email protected] prior to the course date. Otherwise, no refunds will be allowed.
Objectives
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Identify three ways that childhood trauma manifests as adaptive behavior in youth service settings.
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Describe four concrete, community-based interventions that promote stabilization and prevent system escalation.
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Compare at least three common funding streams and the eligible activities that can support trauma-informed care.
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Apply one trauma-informed, family-centered strategy to enhance service delivery within their own agency or clinical role.
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate GH Certificate
Learning credits
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