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ECHO-Chicago: Childhood Adversity & Trauma: Strategies for Promoting Health
April 2, 2025 to June 4, 2025
Help children thrive!
Join ECHO-Chicago’s upcoming series to enhance your ability to assess and address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and implement trauma-informed care practices. Designed for community-based primary care clinicians, this activity offers advanced training and practical strategies to improve the well-being of adolescents in underserved communities. Through ECHO-Chicago’s proven workforce development model, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to integrate evidence-based, trauma-informed practices into your clinical care. Learn more today to expand your impact and support the health of Chicago’s youth!
Target Audience
This activity is designed for primary care clinicians and other healthcare professionals interested in treating ACEs effectively.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Recall screening tools to incorporate into inpatient encounters involving ACEs;
- Recognize intervention tools to strengthen the therapeutic web in schools and communities;
- Identify self-care tools used to cope with stress treating trauma-related issues;
- State the biological and physiological impact of childhood adversity and trauma;
- Name local and national examples of community resources for children who have experienced ACEs;
- List trauma-informed principles to create a safe and supportive environment, foster collaborative relationships, develop prevention and coping tools for improved emotional regulation, and implement practical changes to enhance the practice environment;
- Define social determinants of health, unmet social needs, and expanded ACEs and their impact on health;
- Describe an ecological model of childhood and adulthood health that includes individual factors, family factors, school factors, community factors, and societal factors across time;
- Discuss the impact of ACEs on health outcomes across the lifespan as well as protective factors and their importance;
- Explain how to apply principles of neurobiology to trauma treatment;
- Assess the role of the healthcare team in treating ACEs.
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| Session Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| April 2 | Introduction to ECHO-Chicago and Childhood Adversity & Trauma Kick-Off (Sample Case) Provider Self-Care Introduction |
| April 9 | Power, Positionality, and Contextual Factors of Childhood Adversity Self-Regulation Practice |
| April 16 | Provider Wellness and Community Self-Care Self-Regulation Practice |
| April 23 | Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Neurobiology Self-Regulation Practice |
| April 30 | Connecting with Community Resources in Times of Political Change Provider Self-Care Check-In |
| May 7 | Screening and Collaboration: Teams Based Approach Self-Regulation Practice |
| May 14 | Becoming Trauma Informed in Your Practice: Creating Safe Environments, Collaboration and Coping Tools Self-Regulation Practice |
| May 21 | Intervention to Strengthen the Therapeutic Web: Schools & Community Self-Regulation Practice |
| May 28 | Interventions to Strengthen the Therapeutic Web: Parenting to Promote Family Resiliency Self-Regulation Practice |
| June 4 | Referring Patients for Evidence-Based Therapeutic Interventions for Exposure to Trauma Provider Self-Care Check-In |
Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To learn more about the ECHO-Chicago curricula, visit our website.
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact ECHO-Chicago via email at echo@bsd.uchicago.edu.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
COURSE FACULTY
Shipra Parikh, MSW, PhDAssociate Instructional Professor of Clinical Social Work
University of Chicago
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Worker Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is a Registered Social Work Continuing Education Sponsor through the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and will offer continuing education units for the ECHO-Chicago: Childhood Adversity & Trauma: Strategies for Promoting Health for LSW and LCSW social workers in the state of Illinois.
10 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.
10 social work continuing education units are provided for this live activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
Registration: For more information about ECHO, visit the program website below.
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Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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