Thanks to funding provided by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, the Bounce Coalition has spent over two years working in collaboration with the Russell County School District (RCSD) and the Lake Cumberland District Health Department (LCDHD) to bring trauma-informed care to the region. While the work is continuing, we [...]
In 2019, the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence (JHFE) awarded the Bounce Coalition a grant to provide training and support to three of Louisville’s adolescent residential services over a two-year period. Since then, Bounce has partnered with Seven Counties’ Bellewood and Brooklawn, Boys and Girls Haven, St. Joseph Children’s Home, [...]
When the gavel sounded on the 2019 legislative session, advocates across the state celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 1, the School Safety and Resiliency Act. This bipartisan effort brought together lawmakers, behavioral health experts, and school administrators to ensure all students can learn in a safe and supportive school environment. [...]
This article originally appeared on marc.healthfederation.org September 17, 2020 Student suspension rates dropped. Teacher retention rose. Membership in the PTA swelled from zero to more than 200. More kids said in a survey that there was at least one adult at school whom they could talk to if they had [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mara Powell, Kentucky Youth Advocates mpowell@kyyouth.org Bounce Coalition to partner with YMCA of Greater Louisville and Boys & Girls Club of Kentuckiana for Trauma-Informed Care Supports Over 600 staff from YMCA of Greater Louisville and Boys and Girls Club of Kentuckiana to participate in program Louisville, [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mara Powell mpowell@kyyouth.org Bounce Coalition Partners with Humana to Provide Trauma-Informed Training to Employees serving Kentuckians with Medicaid Louisville, KY (September 17, 2020) – The Bounce Coalition is partnering with Humana to provide trauma-informed training for the managed care organization’s employees serving Medicaid members in Kentucky. Across the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. David Finke, PhD david.finke@centerstone.org 502-235-7565 Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Funds Bounce Partnership with Louisville’s Providers of Adolescent Residential Services Uspiritus, Boys and Girls Haven, and St. Joseph Children’s Home building a community of providers with shared trauma-informed framework Louisville, KY (February 14, 2020) – [...]
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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