Foster Care Training

Training Summary: When children and adults have experienced trauma in the past, their bodies may continue to feel stressed and try to protect them from harm long after the danger is over. Feelings of anger, despair, turmoil or numbness even when they don’t remember or are not thinking about what happened can result. This training will explain and offer an experiential window into the Ten Week Group, Finding Peace Within, which is a skills-based group teaching numerous tools and skills to help regulate one’s activated nervous system. This training offers information on the impact of trauma, with a focus on attachment trauma, along with strategies for caregivers and helpers of child trauma survivors to assess for the effects of trauma and respond to the needs associated with it. This training will provide conceptual maps and experiential tools to learn about how bodies react when triggered, to learn to interrupt procedural learning and support somatic resourcing. We will also explore the neurobiology of a dysregulated nervous system, the evolutionary remnant of survival strategies which are no longer necessary or effective Class Objectives: (what knowledge, ideas or skills will participants explore, learn, practice, etc during the training) 1. Learn the value of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in the support of Caregiving 2. Learn how to apply skills to benefit clients who have experienced trauma 3. Help caregivers understand the impact of trauma so they can support their children Participants will be able to: 1. Identify symptoms of dysregulation and practice skills to regulate an activated nervous system. 2. Teach clients mindfulness techniques to address symptoms of trauma.
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