Foster Care Training

Attachment, Regulation and Competency : Working with children and youth with complex trauma. Series topics includes:

Tools for regulation and modulation – part I

Objectives:

• Understand the impact of attachment disruption and traumatic stress on children
• Understand the impact of early trauma and traumatic stress on a child’s brain and their capacity to modulate and regulate
• Develop tools for teaching children to track their own modulation
• Develop tools for helping children change their state of modulation

Working with caregivers to support foster children’s affect management and attachment: Tools for attachment, regulation and competency, part 2

Objectives:

• Build caregiver self monitoring and affect management skills.
• Caregiver development of base of attachment, attunement, positive reinforcement and limit setting.
• Develop caregiver’s capacity to assess and cope with triggers in themselves and in foster children.
• Tool development for supporting foster children’s affect management through modeling, modulation, self regulation, coping strategies, cueing, and building routines and structure.
• Psychoeducation of effect of trauma on foster children’s capacity for affect management
• Developmental considerations in children in development of affect management and modulation.