mental health
You must complete a minimum of two hours in this area. You can choose which training topic(s) are of most interest to you.
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Children and Mental Health
Format: 190-200 minute Nearpod Code: FTRPV Description: This interactive Nearpod presentation provides overviews of mental health and medical disorders that foster parents may encounter when working with children in the foster care system. Conditions that are addressed include ASD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, RAD, and FASD. Co-occurrence of disorders and treatment considerations are discussed. |
Children's Mental Health: Depression
Format: 75-85 minute Nearpod Code: AMZGN Description: This interactive Nearpod presentation introduces Depression as it appears in children and teens. It talks about the symptoms of depression, treatment options, ways that foster parents can support and encourage children with depression, signs of crisis and who to call, and additional supports and services that may be able to support a young person with depression at their school. |
Introduction to Historical Trauma
Format: 45-60 minute Nearpod Code: XFRBS Description: This interactive Nearpod introduces the concept of historical trauma. It defines historical trauma, provides examples of models for how trauma is passed on through the generations, discusses how current experiences of microaggressions can perpetuate trauma cycles, talks about contemporary troubles associated with historical trauma, and presents strengths that can help children to overcome historical trauma. |
Childhood Trauma: Introduction to Toxic Stress
Format: 50-60 minute Nearpod Code: KXMLQ Description: This interactive Nearpod introduces the concept of toxic stress. It looks at the development of children’s brains, the impact of stress on the human, and differentiates between normal stress and toxic stress. Participants view and learn about family situations where children do experience toxic stress as well as learn that healthy relationships can help buffer the stress that children experience. |
Childhood Trauma: Responding to Toxic Stress
Format: 35-45 minute Nearpod Code: KXMLQ Description: This interactive Nearpod presentation discusses what makes stress toxic for children and how to create relational buffers to minimize the impact of stress on children’s development. The importance of nurturing relationships and skill-building in adults are highlighted as strategies to reduce the burden of toxic stress. |
Childhood Trauma: Domestic Violence
Format: 90-100 minute Nearpod Code: IOJHW Description: This interactive Nearpod presents information about the impact of witnessing domestic violence on children’s brains. Through narrative and research, it explores the cognitive and behavioral impact of domestic violence and how healthy relationships with adults can help build resiliency for children who have experienced trauma. |
Childhood Trauma: Impact of Parental Incarceration
Format: 140-150 minute Nearpod Code: WDGRO Description: This interactive Nearpod introduces the impact of parental incarceration on young people. It presents traumatic impacts of parental incarceration, effects of those traumas on children’s development, and things that caregivers and programs can do to support children whose parent(s) are incarcerated. Resources for address the topic of parental incarceration with children are also provided. |
Childhood Trauma: Sexual Abuse
Format: 85-95 minute Nearpod Code: RCJTP Description: This interactive Nearpod presents information about the impact of childhood sexual abuse. It looks at characteristics of perpetrators of sexual abuse of children and the long-term health impact of such abuse. Historical concerns with sexual abuse of Native American children are presented along with more contemporary concerns. |
Children's Mental Health: ADHD
Format: 65-75 minute Nearpod Code: VLOUR Description: This interactive Nearpod presentation introduces Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). It talks about the brain-based nature of the condition, common symptoms, treatment options, and behaviors that caregivers can do to help children with ADHD to successfully focus and complete tasks. |
Preventing Youth Suicide
Format: 50-60 minute Nearpod Code: RSMCP Description: This interactive Nearpod presentation is focused on youth suicide prevention. It shows a variety of experiences—those of a youth who had attempted suicide, those of a parent who lost their son to suicide, and those of a mental health professional. Warning signs for suicidal ideation, the important of breaking the stigma around suicide, and ways to support someone who is thinking about suicide are shared. |
Kind Hearted Woman
Format: 293 minute PlexTV
Log-in: check with licensing worker
Description: This video documentary follows a young mother from Spirit Lake Nation as she works to overcome her own history of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and alcohol addiction to be a good mother to her two children. She faces battles with herself, her ex-husband and his family, the tribe's social services, a new romantic relationship, and more as she strives for stability and a healthy future for her children and herself. Complete the post-test below and turn it into your licensing worker for grading and to get a certificate.
Format: 293 minute PlexTV
Log-in: check with licensing worker
Description: This video documentary follows a young mother from Spirit Lake Nation as she works to overcome her own history of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and alcohol addiction to be a good mother to her two children. She faces battles with herself, her ex-husband and his family, the tribe's social services, a new romantic relationship, and more as she strives for stability and a healthy future for her children and herself. Complete the post-test below and turn it into your licensing worker for grading and to get a certificate.
mental_health_post_test.pdf |