Course Outline
Children and young people who have experienced trauma often communicate their distress through behaviour. What might look like aggression, withdrawal, or avoidance is often a nervous system response to feeling unsafe.
The TECA e-learning course introduces a practical tool—the Trauma Expression and Connection Assessment—to help adults better understand and respond to these trauma expressions. Grounded in relational and trauma-responsive practice, this course helps you support emotional safety, connection, and healing for the children in your care.
Cost of enrolment also includes the TECA tool in an editable PDF format.
The TECA e-learning course introduces a practical tool—the Trauma Expression and Connection Assessment—to help adults better understand and respond to these trauma expressions. Grounded in relational and trauma-responsive practice, this course helps you support emotional safety, connection, and healing for the children in your care.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for anyone in a supportive role with children and young people. You don’t need clinical expertise to benefit.- Educators and school staff
- Foster and kinship carers
- Youth workers and case managers
- Early childhood professionals
- Counsellors and support workers
- Community and family service workers
What will you learn?
Through five short modules across approximately 2 hours of learning, you’ll explore:- What trauma is and how it impacts behaviour
- How to recognise survival responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
- How to use the TECA tool to assess and support a child’s needs
- How to use the TECA tool meaningfully to match responses to the child’s needs.
- The power of safe, attuned relationships in trauma-responsive care
Cost of enrolment also includes the TECA tool in an editable PDF format.
Course Listing
| Name | Cost | |
| TECA - Trauma Expression and Connection Assessment | $55.00 |
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Watch this 2.5 minute video with Sue Buratti, Regional Director of Therapeutic Services for the Australian Childhood Foundation and one of the thought leaders behind the development and implementation of the TECA tool.