Community Training Day

Join us for a day of training sponsored by Page County Public Schools, Valley Health Page Memorial Hospital and Page Alliance for Community Action

This full day of training will take place at Luray High School on June 14th from 8:30 AM-4:00 PM.

8:30-11:30 AM - Session 1
1:00-4:00 PM - Session 2

During each session, a Poverty Simulation and Trauma Resilience Basics training will be offered. Descriptions below for each course.

Trauma and Resilience Basics Course provides participants with an understanding and skill base in the 5 following areas:
1. Trauma-The Most Basic Public Health Issue: Participants will learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences and the impact on youth and adult mental and physical wellness.
2. Trauma-The Impact on the Brain: Participants will learn the upstairs/downstairs brain model and basic interventions for consumers who are in "survival mode"
3. Trauma-The Impact on At-Risk Behaviors: Participants will learn how to respond to the NEED rather than reacting to the BEHAVIOR and create effective responses to promote trauma healing, minimize re-traumatization, and increase positive behaviors. 
4. Resilience-Building Individual Resilience into Everyday Action: Participants will learn to promote self-regulation, positive self-identity, and co-regulation skills that are specific to the population they serve.
5. Resilience-Building Community Resilience: Participants will learn the Virtuous Cycle, the foundations for building Trauma Informed Communities, and the collective impact models of resilience that improve population health outcomes.

The Poverty Simulation Experience

• The poverty simulation experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. It is a simulation, not a game. The object is to sensitize participants to the realities faced by low-income people.
• In the simulation, participants assume the roles of up to 26 different families facing poverty. The task of the "families" is to provide for basic necessities and shelter during the course of four 15-minute "weeks."
• At the end of the Simulation Experience, a discussion among the participants will be facilitated by Virginia Cooperative Extension staff.