Course Outline
Trauma-responsive practice in education is an on-demand professional learning program designed to build the capacity of educators and school staff to understand and respond effectively to children and young people impacted by abuse-related and complex trauma.
Grounded in contemporary neurobiology and the SMART program (Strategies for Managing Abuse Related Trauma), this course equips education professionals with practical frameworks, relational strategies and whole-site approaches that promote safety, regulation, connection and learning.
Throughout the program, participants explore how trauma impacts brain development, memory, emotion, connection, behaviour and representation. The course introduces the PRACTICE framework — a structured, evidence-informed approach that supports schools to create predictable, attuned and relationally safe environments for students.
Who is it for?
This course is designed for:-
Teachers and early childhood professionals
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School principals and leadership teams
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School counsellors and student wellbeing staff
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Education support staff and administrative personnel
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Education systems seeking a whole-site trauma-responsive approach
What will I learn?
Within this course, you will:- Develop a neurobiological understanding of trauma: Explore how trauma affects the developing brain, including impacts on arousal, memory, emotion, learning, impulse control and relationships.
- Understand trauma response patterns: Recognise hyperarousal, hypoarousal and social engagement states, including the window of tolerance and principles from Polyvagal theory.
- Strengthen relational practice: Learn how connection, attunement and predictability shape brain development and how relational experiences can transform trauma.
- Support memory, emotional literacy and regulation: Understand how trauma impacts implicit and explicit memory, working memory and narrative identity — and how to build cognitive and emotional capacity in the classroom.
- Apply the PRACTICE framework: Implement the eight elements of PRACTICE.
- Integrate whole-school strategies: Develop coordinated School Support Plans and collaborative responses across teaching staff, leadership and families.
- Support adolescents effectively: Understand adolescent brain development, risk-taking, impulse control and trauma impacts specific to this developmental stage.
Register below to become part of a community making an extraordinary impact in the lives of children and young people.
Registration
| Name | Cost | |
| University of New England- Social Work in Schools | $0.00 | |
| Our Lady Help of Christians School | $0.00 | |
| Lifestart NSW | $0.00 | |
| CEWA | $0.00 | |
| Department of Education NT SWIPS (closed) | $0.00 | |
| The Bidgee School | $0.00 | |
| TeamKids | $0.00 | |
| Hawke's Bay / Tairawhiti | $0.00 | |
| Shine Bright EYM | $0.00 | |
| SYC | $0.00 | |
| Uniting Country SA | $0.00 | |
| Casuarina Senior College | $0.00 | |
| Majarlin | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Bald Hills SS | $0.00 | |
| Department of Education Qld Metro Region | $0.00 | |
| Lyndale Secondary College | $0.00 | |
| Pimpala Primary School | $0.00 | |
| YMCA- WA | $0.00 | |
| Para Hills High School | $0.00 | |
| NT Friendship and Support | $0.00 | |
| Banora Point PS | $0.00 | |
| Tatachilla Lutheran College | $0.00 | |
| Polyglot Theatre | $0.00 | |
| ACT Flexible Education | $0.00 | |
| Fairbridge College | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Bracken Ridge SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Bray Park SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Albany Creek SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Caboolture SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Craigslea SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Ferny Grove SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Geebung SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Payne Road SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Kallangur SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Mango Hill SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Morayfield East SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Morayfield SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Mount Crosby SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Mount Samson SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Narangba SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: North Lakes SC | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Nundah SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Samford SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Somerset Hills SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Stafford SS | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Brighton SS | $0.00 | |
| Tuart Hill PS | $0.00 | |
| Patricks Road State School | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Barrett Adolescent School | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Bardon SS | $0.00 | |
| Blakeview Primary School OSHC | $0.00 | |
| Guardian Childcare and Education | $0.00 | |
| Freemantle Christian College | $0.00 | |
| Yarralea Children's Centre | $0.00 | |
| Child Care Services Taree & Districts Inc | $0.00 | |
| Therapy Hive | $0.00 | |
| Communicare Academy | $0.00 | |
| Big Fat Smile | $0.00 | |
| Alpine Children's Services | $0.00 | |
| Cadijin College Galilee | $0.00 | |
| Town & Country Children's Centre | $0.00 | |
| Elwood College | $0.00 | |
| DoE QLD: Jinibara State School | $0.00 | |
| Coast Community Connections Ltd | $0.00 | |
| Oakwood School | $0.00 | |
| Department for Education SA | $0.00 | |
| Footprint Placements | $0.00 | |
| Bayles Regional Primary School | $0.00 | |
| Pyalong Primary School | $0.00 | |
| Community College Gippsland | $0.00 | |
| Mallee District Aboriginal Services | $0.00 | |
| LOOKOUT SWED (SEVR) | $0.00 | |
| Department of Corrections NT | $0.00 | |
| Central West/ Far West School Counselling Service DoE | $0.00 | |
| Uniting Gippsland | $0.00 | |
| King's Baptist Grammar School | $0.00 | |
| Catholic Schools Office Maitland - Newcastle | $0.00 | |
| 1000 Generations | $0.00 | |
| Lort Smith | $0.00 | |
| Kildare College | $0.00 | |
| Clyde Primary School | $0.00 | |
| Canberra High School | $0.00 | |
| healthAbility | $0.00 | |
| Australian Christian College - Moreton | $0.00 | |
| Liberty Christian Primary School | $0.00 | |
| Yirara College | $0.00 | |
| Department of Education Qld - North Coast Region | $0.00 | |
| Anson Street School | $0.00 | |
| Altona Meadows Primary School | $0.00 | |
| YMCA - Gungahlin | $0.00 | |
| Pimpala Primary School OSHC | $0.00 | |
| Marist College Eastwood | $0.00 | |
| Fadden Primary School | $0.00 | |
| Reservoir High School | $0.00 | |
| Beveridge Primary School | $0.00 | |
| Gowrie SA | $0.00 | |
| Gardenia Early Learning Clontarf | $0.00 | |
| Warracknabeal Special Developmental School | $0.00 | |
| Freshwater Christian College | $0.00 | |
| Kids First Australia | $0.00 | |
| Mentone Girls Secondary College | $0.00 | |
| City of Whittlesea | $0.00 | |
| Xavier College- Evanston Campus | $0.00 | |
| The Australian National University | $0.00 | |
| Step 2 Allied Health | $0.00 | |
| Cairns School of Distance Education | $0.00 | |
| Top End School of Flexible Learning | $0.00 | |
| CESA | $0.00 | |
| Whitefriars College | $0.00 | |
| Bannockburn P-12 College | $0.00 | |
| Department of Education NT SAEPS | $0.00 | |
| Gungahlin College | $0.00 | |
| Mandurah Baptist College (Primary School) -Trauma Responsive Practice in Education | $0.00 | |
| Mandurah Baptist College (Secondary School) -Trauma Responsive Practice in Education | $0.00 | |
| Department of Education NT SWIPS | $0.00 |
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