Session 1
Date: Wednesday 30 April 2025
Time: 11:30am – 12:15pm (AEST)
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: Online via Microsoft Teams.
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Join this webinar, run by our A Trauma Lens Across Schools (ATLAS) practitioners, to learn about how trauma-aware practices can create supportive environments for all students and educators.
Challenging and stressful experiences in childhood, including adversity and trauma, can impact brain development and emotional regulation, which are key to academic success.
Trauma-aware education acknowledges the challenges students face before entering the classroom and emphasises the importance of relationships between students and educators.
During this 45-minute workshop, you’ll learn about:
The online session will be held on Microsoft Teams and you will receive a link to join and instructions on how to access Teams in your confirmation email.
The ATLAS program equips educators with the tools and understanding to support students impacted by vulnerability and trauma, fostering opportunities for recovery and healing while creating safe and supportive learning environments for all.
"It's changed our staff's mentality of what trauma can look like. I think it's opened their minds about what different behaviours mean and what has led to it. It's led to the staff having more compassion, thinking, ‘Can I manage this a different way that may suit the student and get a better outcome?’"
– Rob Guppy, Acting Principal, St Albans North Primary School
If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to contact our friendly team at [email protected] or 03 9697 0666.
A comprehensive approach to mental health in schools (P-12), building Educators' capability to support students impacted by trauma and vulnerability.
Teachers in Victoria will get a skills boost to help the most vulnerable children recover and heal from trauma, with the expansion of a Trauma Consultancy program which is already yielding powerful results for preschool students.
The TraCS program supports early years Educators working with children experiencing vulnerability and trauma to create safe and supportive environments.