The Louisiana Childhood Adversity Resilience Education (LA CARE) Network is a program designed to expand understanding of the impacts of childhood adversity and community-level resilience building. Certified Louisiana Childhood Adversity Resilience Educators come from various backgrounds and are trained in evidence-based strategies to lead presentations that highlight the importance of felt safety, resilience, and system-level policies rooted in trauma-informed practices. Learn more about the available presentation topics in the table below.
Scheduling a Presentation
Educators are available to present on a variety of topics listed/described below.
To schedule a presentation, fill out this Presentation Request Form, which will include your preferred date, time, and presentation from the list below. While we strive to accommodate all requests, due to the voluntary nature of our program, presentations may not always be available as requested. Please reach out at least four weeks in advance of your desired timeframe. Program staff will contact you to discuss your request in more detail.
| Presentation Title | Presentation Description | Length |
| Understanding Adversity and Building Resilience | An introduction to key concepts of adversity, trauma, and building resilience. Provides insight into the body’s response to toxic stress and real-life strategies to create protective factors against the potential lifelong effects of childhood adversity. | 1.5-2 hours |
| The Parent Child Relationship as a Space for Healing | An overview of the impact of adversity and trauma. It explores strategies to create caring and emotionally responsive relationships between children and adults that can serve as a buffer to the harmful effects of adverse childhood experiences. | 1-2.5 hours |
| Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care | An overview of research into childhood adversity and how to incorporate a trauma-informed approach in your work to improve services and the workplace environment for everyone. It includes actionable steps and strategies to provide trauma-informed care in a variety of settings. | 1-2.5 hours |
| Introduction to Trauma-Informed Education | Provides information on the impact of trauma on learning, how to identify signs of trauma in students, and best practices for schools and classrooms to respond to students in healing-centered ways. | 1-2.5 hours |
| Brain Architecture Game | An interactive game about experience-based brain development, which provides a hands-on illustration of the connection between adversity and brain development. | 1-1.5 hours |
| Documentary Films: Resilience | Resilience is a documentary about several agencies and organizations throughout the country that have adopted trauma-informed approaches, showcasing real-life examples of adverse childhood experience (ACEs) science in action. Discussion will follow the documentary. | 2 hours |