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Create a Healthy Tomorrow: Stress Strategies Certification Training  

Get certified as an instructor of our stress strategies for children curriculum.

This comprehensive curriculum provides a STEM-based framework for understanding the physiology of stress, the link between body and brain, and evidence-based practices to mediate the negative effects of stress before they manifest as poor health outcomes. This certification course covers all 8 modalities and the full 12 lessons in the Stress Strategies curriculum manual. Training incorporates coaching, small group work, and interactive teach-back practice.

In-person - Upcoming 1 day in-person training Saturday March 4th, 9am - 4:30pm. Spaces are limited and masks may be required in accordance with El Rio Health’s up-to-date Covid-19 policies and procedures. Participants receive the stress strategies for children instructor certification, a stress strategies manual (both electronic and physical), and access to continued supportive resources and tools. Lunch and snacks are provided. Cost is $40 per participant. More information available upon request.

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Virtual - Five, 1.5-hour virtual sessions. Contact us at Kyla.James@elrio.org to get on the pre-registration list for upcoming virtual training.

Building Resilience as a Protective Factor for Burnout

2-hour professional development session. This training focuses on providing and practicing three fundamental tools to mediate toxic stress experience for adult service providers themselves. Kid-friendly adaptations to these resilience tools will be presented and practiced as well. This program is also appropriate for parents or caregivers of youth.

Creating a Mindful and Supportive Community in the Classroom 

2-hour professional development session for educators that addresses how stress affects brain development, cognition, and health; how trauma may present in the classroom and on the playground; strategies to support healthy student socialization and manage reactivity; and self-regulatory practices to improve each educator’s own personal management of stress

For more information on upcoming trainings, small group training options, or how to set up a staff training for your school, contact us at Kyla.James@elrio.org