Starr Commonwealth Catalog

Starr provides a wide array of services for children, families, communities, and professionals. From prevention and intervention, to enrichment and residential treatment, all of our trauma-informed, resilience-based programs are rooted in creating powerful and positive experiences for all to heal, and for all to thrive.

Certifications

Courses

Trauma-Informed Resilient Schools
Teaches school professionals how to create trauma-informed schools and classrooms.
Children of Trauma and Resilience
Introduces participants to a trauma-informed and resilience-focused mindset and teaches participants about toxic stress and trauma.
Resetting for Resilience
Strong focus on understanding the link between a student’s private logic and their academic achievement and behavior deficits in the Circle of Courage’s universal needs.
Structured Sensory Interventions II
Takes participants deeper into the brain science of trauma and toxic stress, exploring the polyvagal theory, epigenetics, and the science of resilience.
Healing Trauma and Restoring Resilience in Schools
Takes participants deeper into the brain science of trauma and toxic stress, exploring the polyvagal theory, epigenetics, and the science of resilience.
Mind Body Skills for Emotional Regulation (2nd Edition)
Reviews the polyvagal theory and the psychophysiology of trauma, so that participants can understand behavior as a language for what is happening in the body.
LGBT Youth: From Trauma to Belonging (2nd Edition)
Designed for professionals working in schools and organizations that serve children and adolescents identifying with the LGBT+ community
Practicing Resilience: Essential Self-Care Strategies for Helping Professionals
A journey of awareness, care, and compassion. Dig into what affects us as trauma practitioners, the psychophysiology of joy and stress, and the paradox as a spiritual possession.
Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Focused Assessment and Differential Diagnosis
Provides participants an understanding of the significant overlapping symptomology between mental health disorders and childhood trauma, and a clear view of what it looks like in schools and classrooms.
Healing the Trauma of Addiction
Designed to help practitioners support adolescents and adults who are struggling with substance abuse. Instead of asking, “What happened?” it focuses on how to help these individuals regulate their emotions to sustain recovery.
Trauma-Informed Expressive Art Therapy
Offers a journey into the experiential world and work of expressive arts, and provides a foundation from which to build new therapies for clients.
Putting It All Together
An experiential journey from assessment to closure that is intended to support the clinical implementation of the Trauma Intervention Programs.
Sexual Abuse
Every sexual assault or abuse case you encounter will have to be treated differently, as each case and set of clients that comes with it will be made up of different circumstances, beliefs, strengths and challenges.
Post-Traumatic Growth
Helping individuals develop post-traumatic growth in addition to coping with the aftermath of traumatic events and loss, can make a huge difference in their future lives.
Zero to Three: Trauma Intervention
Provide you with the background and tools needed to work with infants, toddlers, and their caregivers after they have experienced a traumatic situation.
ExcelU – Self-Empowerment & Resiliency eLearning Course
Designed for professionals who are committed to helping students/children (grades 6-12) become more self-aware of their feelings, emotions, and the sensations they experience.

Books

Programs & Workbooks