Upon completion of the course, the participants will:

• Recognize the effective screening, intake, assessment, and treatment skills with traumatized children, families, and groups that vary by the characteristics of the clients.
• Recognize family systems relative to traumatic stress and be able to provide systemic interventions with the entire traumatized family;
• Demonstrate skill in applying critical incident debriefing/interventions with a focus upon children, families, and groups.
• Recognize the variations in response to traumatic stress among various cultural, racial, gender, and age groups and communities and how the various treatment approaches can or can not be applied to these groups of children, families, and groups;
• Demonstrate skill in recognizing effective efforts at trauma stabilization and resolution that change to meet the unique requirements of communities;
• Recognize the theory, purpose, and characteristics of the Green Cross-approved treatments connected to various contexts;
• Recognize the characteristics of competent case management with traumatized populations including recording, report-writing, ancillary services and referral as it varies by context;
• Recognize the fundamental principles of context-flexible treatments, assessments, and techniques that work across contexts;
• Recognize and able to note the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Standards of Practice that includes the ethical standards for traumatology and the respect for differences.