Trauma-Informed Care for Child Welfare Systems

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.