Trauma-Informed Facilitator Certification
Trauma-informed facilitators recognize the impact of trauma on physical and mental health and are equipped with the tools and training to foster sensitive and supportive environments.
According to multiple worldwide surveys of exposure to traumatic events,
including findings from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium,
which derived survey data from 24 countries,
approximately 70% of respondents reported experiencing lifetime traumas.
A more recent international study from 2022 surveyed over 50,000 individuals
and confirmed the same finding, with an average of 3.2 traumatic experiences per capita.
In the United States, recent research finds that nearly 90% of adults report exposure to
at least one potentially traumatic event during their lifetime.
Becoming certified as a trauma-informed facilitator helps you ensure the well-being of your organization, your clients, your community, and yourself.
"I've taken so many trainings and everyone talks about how we should practice self-love,
self-acceptance, and all those things that help us feel good, but you actually taught us how to do it...
and how to help other people do it as well." — 2020 SEF Trainee
Trainings are open to everyone and scholarships are available.
PROMOTING ACEs AWARENESS
ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Because of the ACE study and hundreds of subsequent studies from around the world, we are starting to understand the immense lifelong impact that toxic stress has on health and well-being.
ACEs cause much of our burden of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root
of most violence. “ACEs” comes from the CDC-Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences Study,
a groundbreaking public health study that discovered that childhood trauma leads to
the adult onset of chronic diseases, depression and other mental illness, violence and being
a victim of violence, as well as financial and social problems.
The ACE Study has published about 70 research papers since 1998.
Hundreds of additional research papers based on the ACE Study have also been published.
— ACEs Connection
Our trainings and programs foster ACE Awareness and trauma-sensitivity.