Foster Care Training

Trauma can have a significant impact on sleep and sleep hygiene for system-involved youth and their caregivers. Disrupted sleep has been shown in research to cause very harmful consequences to those experiencing it, especially over an extended period time to all areas including health, work/school, relationships, learning, memory and activities of daily living. In this 2-hour training, the presentation will include definitions, research on how trauma negatively can impact sleep, and what to do when youth or caregivers have trauma disrupting their sleep including somatic strategies to improve outcomes for system involved youth who are disproportionately youth of color and all too often negatively affected by trauma. Participants will be guided through a sequence of learning activities to explore and understand the negative impact of trauma on the brain and to gain increased awareness to reduce and heal disrupted sleep. Learning activities will include: self-reflection, storytelling of real life examples, large group exercises, and participant question time.