Description

This 20-hour self-paced training equips paraprofessionals with essential competencies in trauma-informed crisis response, ethical practice, and resilience-building strategies. Through recorded video lectures, interactive activities, and reflective exercises, participants explore the foundational principles of Trauma Informed Care within sociocultural contexts, examine the psychological and emotional impacts of trauma including grief and compassion fatigue, and develop practical skills in motivational interviewing, de-escalation, and emergency communication. The curriculum emphasizes ethical practice through examination of professional boundaries, confidentiality, cultural humility, and appropriate scope of practice. Participants learn to support care transitions, apply evidence-based stress management techniques, and integrate community resources to foster recovery and resilience. The training culminates in a capstone project requiring integrated application of crisis response skills and ethical decision-making through comprehensive case analysis. This course includes 6 hours of ethics content and prepares paraprofessionals to respond effectively and compassionately to individuals experiencing trauma and crisis.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, participants will:

• Demonstrate trauma-informed practice across diverse cultural and community contexts by integrating resilience factors and ethics.

• Identify and respond to trauma-related psychological, emotional, and behavioral indicators through effective peer support strategies, including motivational interviewing, crisis de-escalation, and emergency communication.

• Recognize the signs and impacts of compassion fatigue, burnout, and chronic stress, and develop personalized resilience and wellness plans that incorporate evidence-based self-care and stress-management frameworks.

• Apply ethical decision-making, boundary-setting, and confidentiality standards to maintain professionalism, protect client safety, and support healthy relational dynamics within interdisciplinary care teams.

• Integrate culturally grounded care models to address barriers in care transitions, mobilize community resources, and promote sustainable recovery and resilience.

Presented by:

Bianca D. McCall, LMFT

Bianca D. McCall is a professional women’s basketball player in retirement, licensed clinical therapist, and internationally recognized TED Speaker with over 25 years of expertise in behavioral sciences, with a thriving mental wellness and performance consulting practice for businesses and sports ecosystems in 13 U.S. States and three countries. She is a trusted voice at the intersection of existential and emergency mental health in underserved and under-resourced groups, including the professional development in special populations and performance-based workforces. Bianca is an advisor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, contributor to National Best Practices for prevention programming. She is a curriculum developer, instructor, moderator, and regional coordinator with CASAT and the Nevada Opioid Center of Excellence, housed at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Public Health. She has delivered keynotes, training, education and consulting that resonates across industries.

Continuing Education Units:

20 CEUs, inlcuding 6 Ethics CEUs 

Certification Board Information

This training is approved for continuing education units by NAADAC/IC&RC/NCB. Additional specifications can be found below.

NAADAC (The Association for Addiction Professionals)

This course has been approved by CASAT, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for the below # of CEUs. NAADAC Provider #98165. CASAT is responsible for all aspects of its programming.

CEUs: 20

Skills Groups

This course applies to the following Client Skill Groups as defined by NAADAC:

• Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development

NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors)

CASAT has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6492. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CASAT is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. (Continuing education hours and CEU's are synonymous for purposes of issuing CEU's from CASAT Learning)

Qualifies for NBCC Credit: NO

NCB (Nevada Certification Board)

This course is approved by the Nevada Certification Board for the following professional certifications:

• Certified Community Health Workers (CHW)

• Peer Recovery and Support Specialist Certification and PRSS Supervisors (PRSS(-S))

Presentation materials are not for reproduction or distribution without specific written authorization. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in our courses are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of CASAT.

This course includes 6 hour of Approved Ethics for Peer Recovery Support Specialists. This course is approved with the Nevada Certification Board as training that meets the requirements for the Trauma Informed Care Endorsement for Peer Recovery Support Specialists in Nevada. Also this course is not approved for the MFT/CPC/Alcohol, Drug, Gambling, Social Work boards.

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