3 Hours
Trauma-Informed Care for Child Welfare Systems
- Audiences Mental Health Professionals, Schools
Overview
This training teaches child welfare staff to recognize signs and symptoms of trauma, understand their significance and prevalence, and learn how to apply trauma-informed approaches in their work with children and families.
Child welfare professionals learn how to recognize and understand to traumatic stress and develop the tools and strategies to support trauma-informed responses across the spectrum of system involvement, including investigation, case and service planning and delivery, and permanency planning.
Objectives
- Learn about the types of traumas, characteristics of traumatic responses, and how the body and brain react to traumatic stress
- Explore risk and protective factors that influence an individual’s response to trauma and potential post-trauma pathways, along with strategies to support resiliency for child welfare system-involved youth, caregivers, and families
- Learn trauma-informed strategies to recognize and respond to the impact of trauma on children, caregivers, and families
- Develop prevention-oriented skills to reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization
- Learn about secondary and vicarious trauma, and explore strategies for self-care as an ethical imperative to support resiliency for those working in the child welfare system.
Details
- Length: 3 hours
- CEs: Not available
- This training may be provided on its own or combined with our Toll of Working with Trauma training as a two-part series.