Upcoming Trainings
Fall 2019
Treating Traumatized Children & Adolescents – September 13th, 2019 9am – 5pm
Richmont Graduate University – Atlanta Campus
Cost: $90.00 Students/$130.00 Professionals
This Richmont Institute of Trauma & Recovery’s Treatment of Child and Adolescent Trauma course is accredited by the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology. It discusses diagnostic assessment on child and adolescent trauma disorders. Attention is focused on trauma and brain development, treatment issues, treatment modalities, and the effects of crisis and disaster trauma versus long term chronic trauma. Specific intervention modalities are taught for skills development.
Treating Traumatized Families – September 14th, 2019 9am – 5pm
Richmont Graduate University – Atlanta Campus
Cost: $90.00 Students/$130.00 Professionals
This 6-hour course satisfies Part C of the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology’s Certified Traumatologist (CT) Certification criteria. This section of the Standards and this course covers, through lecture and supplemental reading assignments, information that will enable students to work in a variety of contexts that require a (human) relational application of traumatology and toward an understanding of systemic traumatology. Students will learn about ways of thinking about the trauma induction and reduction process as it relates to families and other relationships; how to assess and treats traumatized systems; how to better prepare systems for traumatic events in efforts to prevent the unwanted, negative consequences of such events not only on individual but also on systemic functioning. Those who complete the CT Certification join the Academy’s registry and are eligible for deployment with the Green Cross in response to requests for humanitarian assistance following disasters.
Trauma in the Developmental Context – October 18-19th, 2019
Richmont Graduate University – Chattanooga Campus
EMDR (Trauma Recovery/HAP) Part 1 – December 6 – 8th, 2019
Richmont Graduate University – Atlanta Campus
Trauma Training at Richmont
The Richmont Institute of Trauma and Recovery (RIT) offers training and resources to professionals seeking specialized training in trauma, clinicians and first responders experiencing compassion fatigue, and help for individuals who have been victims of traumatization. The RIT offers a Graduate Certificate in Trauma through Richmont Graduate University and also offers training and certification through the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology. Richmont Trauma Response Teams are trained and available to meet acute trauma disasters locally, nationally, and globally.
Graduate Certificate in Trauma Counseling
Richmont Graduate University offers a Trauma specialization as part of its School of Counseling programs. The trauma counseling track is designed to provide specialized training for students who wish to work with clients who have experienced a history of trauma and/or abuse. This track emphasizes the understanding and treatment of “complex trauma”–trauma that typically began in the early, developmentally formative years and involved maltreatment by a major attachment figure/caregiver. However, these courses will also address the treatment needs of those who have suffered acute traumatic experiences. Richmont is partnering with national experts in the field of trauma treatment to provide training that combines understanding of biological impact of trauma, research-based treatment models, and faith integration.
Green Cross Training
Richmont is partnering with the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT). Individuals completing the course of study are granted Green Cross recognition as Field and Certified Traumatologists.
The Green Cross Academy of Traumatology (GCAT) is an international organization that provides humanitarian relief in the form of trained service providers and traumatologists, most of whom are licensed mental health caregivers. When traumatic events occur anywhere in the world, GCAT is pleased to respond to requests for assistance from individuals and organizations. Richmont is excited to be a part of such a vital mission.
Our Three-Tiered Approach
To Trauma Training and Treatment
Failure to acknowledge the pervasiveness of trauma on the development of children and in the lives of adults is a significant threat to relationships, families, churches, and communities…God has called us to step into the mess and pain to bring hope and healing.
Dr. Vanessa Snyder, VP of the Richmont Institute of Trauma & Recovery
Director of the Richmont Trauma Center
As most people have experienced trauma on some level, I wanted to learn how to be sensitive and support people in tough places. Not only that, but to walk alongside them as they write the rest of their story-acknowledging but not confined by the past.
Ben Horner, Richmont Graduate