An interactive training and support program designed to strengthen staff self-regulation skills and build regulated communities.
Research shows that the relationships youth create with caregiving adults hold enormous potential for healing and transformation. Yet, unless the adults engaging in these moment to moment, day to day interactions possess the self-regulation and relational skills required to nurture safety and promote growth, creating truly trauma sensitive environments is unlikely.
Across North America, agencies are expressing the same concerns:
EQ2 is uniquely designed for: residential treatment centers and group homes; juvenile detention; community-based programs; inpatient or partial hospital care; and foster care.
EQ2 blends three core evidence-based approaches:
Without baseline self-regulation skills and support, staff less effectively implement crisis prevention and de-escalation models, youth focused interventions, and large trauma-informed system approaches.
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EQ2 is built to be internally sustainable – without dependence on external trainers – allowing the concepts to become anchored into your facility in the ways that work for you.
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“I loved this training! The things we learned not only helped me with the youth we work with but it helped me with my own kids.”
“The training provided new skills. It caused me to stop and think about how I handle situations and about all the trauma that our kids have experienced. It allowed me to look at the youth in a different light and gave me more understanding and patience.”
“Whenever I felt disrespected I used to react right away. But now before I react, I breathe. I take my time and use a Cool Thought.”
“EQ2 is like a movement. It has even changed the way I parent my own kids.”
“Our teams have been able to do better conflict resolution together. So they’ve been able to say, ‘Hey, when you intervene with this child in this way, when I was already using the skills that we were taught, it made me feel this way…’ They’ve just been able to talk through that together in a healthier way and build better relationships as teams within the cottages.”
“EQ2 has helped bring everybody closer, because you know what everybody’s skills are and what their strengths and weaknesses are. We’re really learning more about ourselves and each other.”
“We love EQ2… We cannot say enough good things about it. We’re so grateful that our agency adopted it… It has been an answered prayer.”
“EQ2 has helped me so much. I still get triggered, but now I have the skills to react differently.”
“EQ2 was a saving grace in our agency.”
“I am in love with this program. I think that it is incredibly beneficial for our group home staff and clients to utilize. It has made a tremendous impact.”
“EQ2 has helped me to look deeper into the underlying causes of behavior and to be more effective in my role when extreme behaviors and thoughts arise.”
Early EQ2 investigations demonstrated high levels of feasibility and acceptability with staff reporting increases in their understanding of the impact trauma on youth behavior; greater perceptions of efficacy in their roles; and improved crisis de-escalation skills.
