Join the next pilot of The Spark Series and receive free, evidence-informed leadership training to strengthen employee engagement, retention, and workplace culture. Guest Blog by Mike Karman Across every industry, employers are asking the same questions. Why is turnover so high? Why do employees disengage so quickly? Why do some [...]
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In every community, there are children and adults carrying the weight of trauma, often silently. The Bounce Coalition is a diverse coalition of stakeholders across the state and exists to change that reality by equipping organizations with the knowledge and tools to build resilience, respond with compassion, and [...]
In every community, there are children and adults carrying the weight of trauma, often silently. The Bounce Coalition is a diverse coalition of stakeholders across the state and exists to change that reality by equipping organizations with the knowledge and tools to build resilience, respond with compassion, and create [...]
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The Bounce Coalition hosted the 2026 Trainer’s Convening on February 27 at the Kentucky Youth Advocates office in Louisville, KY. This annual convening brings together individuals who have completed foundational training through Bounce University and to connect and hone their trauma-informed approaches. Over 35 individuals from across the Commonwealth [...]
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As part of a grant from the C.E.&S. Foundation, the Bounce Coalition has been working to develop training to support adult guides in offering youth-led dialogue structures. Inspired by youth-led Teen Talks at Sowing Seed with Faith (SSWF), the Bounce Coalition collaborated with SSWF youth and out-of-school time organizations that [...]
Assistance with: planning and implementing evidence-based initiatives that promote child well-being; encouraging trauma-informed policies and systems; and disrupting the damage ACEs creates in our communities.
A high-quality evaluation plan can be tightly aligned with each organization’s goals and activities.
Bounce offers a variety of standard training that can be customized to fit the needs of the organization or audience.
The Spark Series is a four-part leadership development training designed to equip managers with the mindset, skills, and habits needed to support, inspire, and retain today’s workforce, especially the younger generation who expect workplaces rooted in purpose, compassion, and connection. Each training session builds on the last, giving leaders tools to strengthen resilience, deepen staff purpose, and create cultures where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to stay.
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Pricing starts at $9,900
This training includes interactive activities and engaging conversations around race-based traumatic stress (RBTS). Participants will be able to define RBTS and name current and historical examples, recognize the impacts, and learn about trauma-informed interventions and local resources available to address RBTS.
This interactive workshop helps parents and caregivers understand the critical role they play in their child’s education. It includes practical ways to actively partner with teachers to help children flourish, including making the most of parent/teacher conferences.
In partnership with the Department of Community Based Services, Seven Counties’ Bellewood and Brooklawn, and St. Joseph Children’s Home, Bounce has created a trauma-informed care framework for agencies to use as their day-to-day milieu with their clients. In addition to our foundational Bounce trainings, this includes four additional training modules that directly addresses the needs and goals of agencies related to their QRTP status and their continued journeys to become trauma-informed providers.
These four modules include:
Too often, parents focus on the problems and challenges their children face. This interactive workshop is designed to help parents and caregivers identify the strengths their child possesses and to build on those assets to help them grow up successfully. The training uses the age-specific developmental assets from the Search Institute and incorporates “homework” to encourage parents to put the learning into action.
This training is designed to help youth-serving professionals understand the relationship between trauma, brain development, and substance use in adolescents. Participants will gain strategies for building resilience in youth, tools for having conversations about substance use, and activities that create opportunities for positive childhood experiences.
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The Bounce Coalition offers Spiritual First Aid to strengthen community capacity, provide new resources to build resilience, and equip community members with the tools to respond in a trauma-informed way.
Designed for faith and community groups, this training teaches frontline peer-to-peer spiritual and emotional care and trauma-informed best practices through its step-by-step BLESS CPR helping framework. Participants will receive hands-on training, a workbook, and a field guide to better support children, adolescents, and adults in their communities.
This training can be done in one day (8 hours) or two (4-hour) days.
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This two-part training for adult-guides and youth-faciliators teaches how to implement youth-led dialogue structures such as Teen Talks, inspired by the work of our partners at Sowing Seed with Faith. If you are interested in creating spaces for youth, this training is for you!
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De-escalation Strategies 101 provides an introduction for adults working with youth on the principles of deescalation, SAMHSA’s 6 Principles of a Trauma Informed Approach, Brain research behind adult and child relationships, the 4 C’s of Calming, effective strategies for disruptive behavior, importance of debriefing, and includes a case scenario.
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This training introduces the variety of trauma that a child with a disability may experience. It also explores the different ways that family members are impacted by secondary trauma. After exploring the different types of trauma that impact the family, the training will offer resiliency strategies for both children and family members to overcome the trauma.
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The purpose of Bounce University (Bounce U) is to equip individuals and organizations with the tools to administer the foundational trauma-informed training (Bounce 101 and 201) in their respective organizations/communities to sustain internal professional development. Completing the two-day Bounce University training is required to become a certified Bounce trainer.
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Pricing starts at $9,900
The one-hour documentary delves into the science of ACEs and the birth of a movement to treat and prevent toxic stress.
Resilience engages and motivates participants by:
90-120 minutes – Pricing starting at $600* for groups of up to 35
The focus of this training is to assist governing board members and the senior leadership team of an organization to become trauma-informed.
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Bounce 201 is an interactive follow-up session that takes participants deeper into practical strategies for building resilience in themselves and others.
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People face many stressors that can have a life-long impact on their ability to thrive. Yet it is possible to foster resilience, equipping people with the tools to effectively respond to adversity and bounce back. This interactive workshop supports this goal by increasing understanding of the lifelong impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and building individual and organizational skills to nurture resilience. You will complete practical exercises designed to encourage trauma-informed approaches to serving your clients.
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