course »Trauma Informed Care – Understanding Behaviors and Supporting Healing

Date: 7/28/2021, 5:00 pm—8:00 pm
County: -Training Offerings
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: Alternative Family Services (AFS)
Phone: (916) 254-5200
Virtual Instructor Led Training

Trainer will fully explain the concept of trauma informed care as it relates to foster children and youth. The definition: “Trauma Informed Care is a strengths-based framework that is grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma…that emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors…and that creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.” (Hopper, Bassuk, & Olivet, 2010, pg. 82).

Trainer will present different types of trauma experienced by foster youth and children and the different impacts their trauma has on them based on factors such as their age at the time of their experience. Trauma sufferers can experience life-long effects such as their self-view, trust, safety and their own view of the future. It is important for caregivers to fully understand the impact of trauma and to act accordingly and take trauma into consideration in their formulation of a recovery-from-trauma plan. In fact, the prevalence of trauma is so high that child welfare workers should assume that everyone they serve has a trauma history.