2025 Trauma Institute

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Welcome!

Each year, the Alaska Advanced Trauma Training Institute features local Alaskan and national experts who share the latest research and advances in the neurobiology of traumatic stress, trauma-informed systems, and clinical interventions for complex trauma in children and adults. The goal is to expand the knowledge of and support the development of trauma-informed care for behavioral health and social service providers across Alaska.

Now, the Rural Child Trauma Training Institute builds on that goal, with a focus on providing complex trauma informed care for children living in both rural and urban communities.

Alaska Behavioral Health has recently joined the Complex Trauma Training Consortium (CTTC) as a field site. CTTC is a national trainer-training and workforce development initiative designed to establish sustainable local expertise in complex trauma understanding, assessment, and treatment across all U.S. states and territories, Washington, D.C., and the four largest metropolitan areas. Additional information about the consortium can be found here.

For this year’s Rural Trauma Training Institute, we are pleased to present 3 courses from the CTTC curriculum.

This is a one-day conference that will be offered via Zoom. There is no fee to attend.

Registration Information

Registration is easy – just click the registration tab at the top of the page and you will be taken to the form. Each individual who wishes to attend should complete a unique registration.

On the day of the conference, if multiple people attend under one Zoom ID, the registered individual will need to email each additional participant’s name and email address to trainingteam@akbh.org for certificates of attendance.

Registration space is limited, please do not forward or share the Zoom link you receive after registration.

Schedule

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025, 8 am to 4 pm AKST

Location: Zoom

Start Time	Title	Presenters
8:00 am – 8:30 am	Welcome	K. Mortenson
8:30 – 10:30 am	Use of Evidence-Based Complex Trauma Intervention Strategies to Educate & Support Parents & Caregivers of Children & Youth Impacted by Complex Trauma	S. Pype
10:30 – 10:45 am	Break	N/A
10:45 am – 12:45 pm	Complex Trauma Domains of Impact	A. Collins
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm	Lunch	N/A
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm	Assessment of Complex Trauma	B. Salvatore
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Wrap up and Thanks!	K. Mortenson

Presenters

Sarah Pype, LMSW, CTTC Trainer

Kristin Mortenson, MS, LPC-S,Project Director Alaska Child Trauma Center, Complex Trauma Training Consortium Training Faculty

April Collins, LBSW, CTTC Trainer

Brandi Salvatore, LCSW, CTTC Trainer

Continuing Education

The State of Alaska Board of Social Work Examiners and the State of Alaska Board of Professional Counselors no longer offer pre-approvals for continuing education courses or events. The training courses offered in the 2025 Rural Child Trauma Institute meet statutory requirements for continuing education for both professions. We will provide certificates of attendance for each session attended and other necessary information for attendees to submit to their licensing board for CEU’s.

Professional Counselor regulation 12 AAC 62.320. (a) and (3).

Social Worker regulation 12 AAC 18.220. (b) and (5).