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Please see the training opportunity available at no cost to participants through a partnership between KDE & UK’s Center on Trauma & Children. Please contact Joshua Fisherkeller (joshua.fisherkeller@uky.edu) at CTAC directly with any questions about the training.
Staying Inside the Window of Tolerance: An Advanced Training on Secondary Traumatic Stress and Resiliency
This 2-hour training focuses on secondary traumatic stress as an expected occupational hazard of school-based work. The Window of Tolerance as a practical framework for recognizing dysregulation in yourself, and what to do about it when you notice it. Participants will learn to distinguish secondary traumatic stress from burnout and moral distress, recognize signs and symptoms across the four diagnostic domains, practice individual, peer, and supervisory strategies for moving back inside their window of tolerance, and begin building an individualized secondary traumatic stress action plan.
Designed for teachers, school social workers, school counselors, school psychologists, administrators, paraprofessionals, and other school and district personnel, as well as social workers and mental health professionals who support school communities.
Upcoming Sessions
Live via Zoom
- Wednesday, 11/11/2026, 10:00am to 12:15pm ET (9:00 to 11:15am CT)
- Friday, 2/19/2027, 10:00am to 12:15pm ET (9:00 to 11:15am CT)
Both sessions cover the same content. Register for whichever date fits your schedule.
Register here: https://ctac.uky.edu/events/staying-inside-window-tolerance-advanced-training-on-secondary-traumatic-stress-and-resiliency
Continuing Education
2 CEUs are available for:
- ASWB ACE (social work, provider #2706)
- KY Board of Social Work
- KY EILA
- KY Board of Psychological Examiners
This training is offered at no cost and is made available through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to the Kentucky Department of Education and the University of Kentucky Center on Trauma and Children.