Community Learning Circle

Join us for the next Central Iowa ACEs 360 Community Learning Circle! Community learning circles are held 2-3 times each year to give professionals and community members an opportunity to network and stay on the cutting edge of the ACEs movement.
Understanding Vicarious Trauma and
Supporting the Well-being of Providers
Join us for a highly interactive session with Chris Foreman, MSSW, focusing on the impact of vicarious trauma on providers. This session will have a special emphasis on the role of supervisors and managers in supporting the health and well-being of staff and the agency as a whole.
  • Date: Thursday, November 1
  • Time: 9:30-11:30AM Registration begins at 9AM
  • Location: Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden
Target Audience:
  • Supervisors and managers 
Objectives for this learning circle:
  • Participants will leave with an increased understanding of the different mechanisms through which providers are impacted by serving children and families who have experienced trauma.
  • Participants will work through a vignette seeking to notice how this work has impacted an individual in order to craft a tailored response – similar to how we screen, assess for child traumatic exposures and symptoms before developing a treatment plan.
  • Participants will review several tools designed to increase supervisor competencies, organizational processes, and hiring/orientation strategies for increasing resilience, health, and well-being of individuals and organizations.

Registration is full! 
Featured Speakers:
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Chris Foreman,
​MSSW
​Chris Foreman, MSSW, became a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in 2009 when she was selected as one of the five sites in the US to pilot Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma; A Workshop for Resource Parents curriculum.  She has since gone on to develop Trauma Informed Parenting training and implementation coaching for agencies across the Midwest and beyond.  

Chris is currently a Liaison for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) co-located at UCLA and Duke Universities.  Her job duties include consultation, resource brokering, facilitating collaborative connections, and technical assistance to a complex network of NCTSN organizational members and consumers of NCTSN resources.  Chris remains an active trainer for trauma-sensitive schools, a coach in systems change processes and an adjunct lecturer in trauma-informed evidence-based practices.