Resiliency Focused Mentoring Training – ‘Be The One’
I look forward to continuing to grow & support myself, my daughter & other children & adults via this insight. Positivity & neuroplasticity allows us to fee our brain with new truths over lies to grow ourselves & our future…
I learned practical methods on how to apply concepts I learned in the course in real life. My counseling will be better because of the material presented in this course. One thing in particular I learned are things to say to children facing hopelessness and worthlessness.
I look forward to continuing to grow & support myself, my daughter & other children & adults via this insight. Positivity & neuroplasticity allows us to fee our brain with new truths over lies to grow ourselves & our future…
I learned practical methods on how to apply concepts I learned in the course in real life. My counseling will be better because of the material presented in this course. One thing in particular I learned are things to say to children facing hopelessness and worthlessness.
Training for professionals and mentors working with children, adolescents & teens who grew up living with domestic violence
The Resiliency Focused Mentoring Training is a, comprehensive five hour certification curriculum for professionals who interact with children impacted by Childhood Domestic Violence.
The training was created by the “founding father” of modern stress management and resiliency, Dr. George Everly, Jr., PhD, ABPP, FAPA, FAPM, in conjunction with the Childhood Domestic Violence Association.
This video provides a preview of the training.
Resiliency Focused Mentoring training builds upon other resources
In building the Be the One – Resiliency Focused Mentoring training, Dr. Everly leveraged key principals taken from the book INVINCIBLE, The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up Living With Domestic Violence and the Truths to Set You Free.
Through powerful first-person stories, as well as the newest research forming our understanding of how the brain learns, INVINCIBLE examines the 10 LIES learned when someone grows up in a home with domestic violence and the 10 transformative TRUTHS.
It offers a deeper understanding of the impact of growing up living with domestic violence, and offers proven strategies that anyone can use to reach their innate potential and to help another do the same.
In addition, to leveraging INVINCIBLE, Dr. Everly applied core principals from the Change a Life Program, which is the only evidence-based online program of its kind. This simple, straightforward program is designed to teach a caring adult how to become The ONE for a child growing up in a home living with domestic violence. The one to help a child feel understood and heard. The one to help a child know that it isn’t their fault and that a child is never responsible for controlling the actions of an adult.
Prior to developing the training, we conducted extensive research into other programs, trainings, and certifications. The intent was to identify if anything comparable currently existed for professionals who work with those who experience childhood domestic violence also to determine if such trainings/programs were in fact scalable in nature.
We determined there was a need and wanted to design a program that could achieve the following:
1) GROUNDED IN SOLID RESEARCH: Spearheaded by a leading researcher and based on the most prominent and research and proven best practices related to helping children impacted by childhood domestic violence;
2) COMPREHENSIVE & COMPLETE: Extensive and comprehensive, clearly identifying specific tools, strategies, tactics, steps, and activities that professionals can apply in their work;
3) WIDELY APPLICABLE: Broad enough to be applicable to professionals from a multitude of disciplines who may interact with those who experience childhood domestic violence, which allows it to be scaled;
4) SIMPLE TO REPLICATE: Simple to replicate, delivered through online learning, at a low cost.
- Research shows that early intervention is critical in having a lasting positive impact on a child impacted by childhood domestic violence. The program is expected to help foster and optimize early interventions to enable a significant increase in positive future outcomes among these children.
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased AWARENESS and UNDERSTANDING of CDV, its nature, and its impact, as a serious childhood adversity that has a profound impact on a life,
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of the key principles and concepts of RESILIENCY THEORY and of RESILIENCY-BASED MENTORING
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of the specific strategies, techniques, sequence of concrete steps and activities mentors can apply to foster resiliency in impacted children, and
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased MOTIVATION and CONFIDENCE to proactively and effectively apply the strategies, techniques, steps, and activities learned, in order to successfully intervene with impacted children and foster optimal positive outcomes.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THE COURSE
WHY THE RFMT COURSE
Prior to developing the training, we conducted extensive research into other programs, trainings, and certifications that were assumed to be similar in nature. The intent was to identify if anything comparable currently existed for professionals who work with CDV-impacted children (or adults) daily, also to determine if such trainings/programs were in fact scalable in nature.
A number of programs / trainings / resources were uncovered that at first glance appeared to have characteristics in common with what CDVA was seeking to develop. But in digging deeper and following hundreds of conversations with diverse professionals whom CDVA senior leaders presented to over the course of several years, we determined that these programs / trainings / resources lacked at least one but typically two or more of the 4 fundamentals that make the RFMT unprecedented, unparalleled, and highly necessary:
1) GROUNDED IN SOLID RESEARCH: Spearheaded by a leading researcher and based on the most prominent and salient research and proven best practices related to helping children impacted by CDV or major adversity;
2) COMPREHENSIVE & COMPLETE: Extensive, comprehensive, and very in-depth format, which clearly and logically identifies specific tools, strategies, tactics, steps, and activities that professionals can apply in their work;
3) WIDELY APPLICABLE: Broad enough to be applicable to professionals from a multitude of disciplines that intercept children impacted by CDV, which allows it to be scaled widely;
4) SIMPLE TO REPLICATE: Simple to replicate, with very few barriers, among hundreds of thousands of professionals.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Research shows that early intervention is critical in making a lasting positive impact on a child impacted by CDV or other childhood adversities. The program is expected to help foster and optimize early interventions to enable a significant increase in positive future outcomes among these children.
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased AWARENESS and UNDERSTANDING of CDV, its nature, and its impact, as a serious childhood adversity that has a profound and life-altering impact,
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of the key principles and concepts of RESILIENCY THEORY and of RESILIENCY-BASED MENTORING
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of the specific strategies, techniques, sequence of concrete steps and activities mentors can apply to foster resiliency in impacted children, and
- Significantly (at least by 30%) increased MOTIVATION and CONFIDENCE to proactively and effectively apply the strategies, techniques, steps, and activities learned, in order to successfully intervene with impacted children and foster optimal positive outcomes.
WHAT DOES THE COURSE LOOK LIKE
HOW THE TRAINING WAS DEVELOPED
The Resiliency Focused Mentoring program was developed after receiving feedback from the professional community. Members found value in the Change a Life program, however desired program designed specifically for professionals that would also offer continuing education credits.
CDVA’s CHANGE A LIFE (CAL) program, referenced above, is the only free, evidence-based simple, self-administered online program of its kind in the world, built to train and prepare any caring adult to step into the life of a child experiencing CDV and help foster their resiliency. Developed by one of the leading researchers in the world – Jeffrey Edleson, PhD – the program was built around an essential premise that a significant predictor of positive outcomes is the presence of at least one caring adult – THE ONE – in a child’s life, who steps in to help them unlearn the negative beliefs learned in that home and change their life.
The efficacy of the program was empirically tested in a 2-year study conducted by Dr. Renee McDonald, a leading researcher focused on the field of family violence and Associate Dean at SMU. The findings were published in 2016 in the Journal of Family Violence and presented at the national conference for the Association for Psychological Sciences.
While this program was not built for the professional community, soon after launch it had been taken by thousands of professionals from 600+ leading nonprofits, social welfare organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions nationwide (including the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Children’s Crisis Center, the Boys & Girls Clubs, Big Brothers Big Sisters, etc). Although the program has received strong feedback, many professionals requested a program specifically designed for professionals.
Be the One – Resiliency Focused Mentoring was designed with that need in mind.