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The School of Leadership and Education Sciences 9-unit Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Trauma awareness, resilience, thriving, and restorative approaches across the professions. This certificate is designed for professionals across multiple sectors as well as graduate students interested in expanding their awareness of stress, trauma, and adaptive capacity, developing skills in trauma-sensitive and restorative approaches, and recognizing promotive factors for individual and collective resilience in the field.

This Interdisciplinary Certificate in Trauma Awareness and Resilience is anchored on an ethical framework that guides our philosophy and practices on restorative and emotional justice, culturally responsive and inclusive approaches, and a theoretical foundation of trauma, including the effects of traumatic events on the development of one’s behaviors in schools, community agencies or the workplace. The certificate provides a general overview of the prevalence, impact, and expression of trauma, the universality and uniqueness of potentially traumatic experiences, and the science of toxic stress and the developing brain, integrated with an introduction to the science of human resilience in the face of ongoing adversity and the aftermath of traumatic events. These understandings will inform an action-oriented culminating project where individuals demonstrate the application of trauma-aware practice that is reflective, proactive, and supportive towards the diverse populations they serve.

Foundations Course

Course List
Code	Title	Units
Required for All Certificate Students		3 units
EDTE 522	Foundations in Trauma Awareness, Resilience, and Restorative Approaches Across the Professions	3
or LEAD 532	Foundations in Trauma Awareness, Resilience, and Restorative Approaches Across the Professions
or KROC 594	Special Topics Course

Interdisciplinary Course Options

Course List
Code	Title	Units
CHOOSE ANY 2 (TWO) COURSES FROM THE LIST BELOW		Minimum 6 units
School of Leadership and Education Sciences Options
EDTE 513P	Positive Behavior Supports for Family, School, and Community Engagement	3
LEAD 540	Introduction to Restorative Justice: A Global Social Movement	3
LEAD 569	Making Meaning and the Collegiate Experience	3
Law School Options
LWPP 545	(Mental Health Law)	3
LWCR 538	(Human Trafficking)	3
LWFC 546	(Juvenile Law)	3
Kroc School of Peace Studies Options
KROC 530	Conflict Analysis & Resolution	3
KROC 576	Peace & Spirituality	2
KROC 577	Intercultural Competency (Intercultural Competency)	2
KROC 592	Workshops (Stress Resilience: Science and Practice)	1
KROC 594	Special Topics Course (Facilitation and Dialogue )	3
Franciscan School of Theology Options
CE 614	(Leadership Ethics for Work with Migrants and Migration)	3
SP 603	(Spirituality of Dying and Death)	3

Certificate Exit Requirement:

Culminating Trauma-Informed Certificate Project¹

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The Culminating Trauma-Informed Certificate Project is embedded in the foundations course for those pursuing the certificate.

Law School and Franciscan School of Theology Course Options

Course information for the Law School Options may be found online via their Course Descriptions webpage.
Course information for the Franciscan School of Theology Options may be found online via their Course Descriptions webpage.