Trauma Responsive Early Childhood Settings
Our Vision
That every early childhood environment be a place where the adults lead with composure, compassion, and connection so that each child can have a safe and joyful environment for early learning.
Our Mission
To provide support and training to educators as they strive to provide responsive and attuned care for all young children, especially those needing to heal from developmental trauma, ACEs, and anxiety.
Our Method
Through training modules provided in person or on line, we teach teachers and caregivers strategies that they can implement immediately to replace clip charts, time outs, alienating negative consequences, and deficit-focused classroom management.
My name is Monique Niederer Davis, and I am the founder of TRECS.
I am a certified educational trainer specializing in trauma informed enviroments and am here to help overwhelmed early childhood educators. I teach educators to implement successful classroom management strategies developed from the latest brain science so that they can once again be fulfilled by their vocation and excited about the difference they are making. I want to work in collaboration with you to provide each young child served in N.C. and beyond a positive and joyful experience in his or her early childhood setting.
Teaching young children is my passion, and I continue to learn alongside you, in and out of the classroom.
Through training modules brought to you onsite or online, you will be provided with all the knowledge needed to implement manageable steps to create a trauma-responsive environment for your young learners.
The course of my career has provided me opportunities to be a childcare worker, a social worker, a Kindergarten teacher, an elementary music teacher, an Exceptional Student preschool teacher, and a state-funded Pre-K teacher in two states. I have a B.A. in Psychology and a M.A. in Birth-Kindergarten Education.
However, none of my education or experiences prepared me for the challenges of behavior management today
I took a “trek” myself to find some answers, and that has brought me here. Learning as I went, I discovered that strategies based in brain science and trauma-informed research were absolutely effective in creating a calm and constructive learning environment for each and every child. I continue to take courses, read books, and do research to improve my knowledge and practice. I gather information from all the experts and put it into manageable, practical guidance for myself and for you!
TRECS Training Modules are approved for 4 total contact hours through NC DHHS.
I offer relevant and immediately useful Professional Development and support for teachers of young children.
None of us have time to spend on classes, conferences, and trainings that don’t give us practical help for TODAY. I know! I am still teaching full-time in a NC Pre-K classroom myself.
When we want to see changes in a child’s responses, we must first learn for ourselves how to be aware, attuned, and equipped with strategies to support them.
Learning how to do this will be transformative for you as the educator as well as for the students whom you serve. Moving from a compliance- and control-oriented viewpoint to one of composure, compassion and connection brought incredible changes within my own classrooms.
I have had many thankful families express their delight that their child has had a successful experience in an educational environment, sometimes for the first time in their young lives after expulsions and other difficult experiences. You, too, can learn effective approaches and strategies to become confident in your classroom, which in turn will help your students become more secure and develop healthy skills that last a lifetime.
“Those who work with young children have the best opportunity to lay the foundation of experiences that strengthen a child from within.”
— Dr. Martin Brokenleg