The University of Iowa offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate certificate focusing on resilience and trauma-informed perspectives.  This certificate is ideal for any undergraduate in any college interested in understanding child health and resilience and is also open to non-students. The certificate requires 18 semester hours with 2 required courses and 4 elective courses, with 15 electives to choose from.

Certificate learning objectives:

  • describe adverse childhood experiences and the influence they have on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual outcomes in childhood and adulthood;
  • identify their own trauma, if any, and learn how to process it to become healthier and more resilient in their own lives;
  • describe resiliency, its dynamics, and ways to strengthen resiliency;
  • analyze strategies to decrease or eliminate trauma in society including learning how to create trauma-informed organizations; and
  • describe the impact of ACEs on communities and formulate strategies to prevent ACEs in communities and their field of practice.

More information about this certificate program can be found in the University of Iowa Course Catalog