In this course, you’ll be introduced to strategies for addressing grief, loss and trauma. Content reviews common definitions for crisis, trauma, and disaster and explores behavioral health trauma impacts. The CATCH 101 (Churches As Trauma Care Hubs) concept is applied as a resource for you as you assist your community in crisis. You’ll learn when to refer out to professional services, and explore an overview of self-care strategies and assessment, foundational skills needed for helping relationships, and pastoral/lay crisis counseling processes and strategies.

The Essentials of Church Trauma Care Certificate includes 4 on-demand short courses that will introduce you to key components of trauma care ministry. They outline a vision for churches to serve as trauma care hubs, provides education on spiritual first aid, trauma care for children and youth, community and racial trauma, and an overview of pastoral and lay counseling strategies.