Healing Traumatized Children in Substitute Care
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Class Description:

Foster and adoptive children bring with them the effects of their life experience both before and after placement. Co-trained by a seasoned foster/adoptive parent and an experienced caseworker, this training provides information on the effects of separation and trauma on child development as well as practical methods and skills to help children heal emotionally.

 

Target Audience:

Foster parents, kinship care providers, adoptive parents, and interested child welfare professionals.

 

Competencies:
  • Learn the potentially traumatic outcomes of the separation and placement experience for children and their families, including serious disruption of family relationships and disturbances in the child's cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development.
  • Identify and apply corrective care giving responses that promote emotional healing in children who have been separated from their families.
  • Identify supportive responses that encourage a team approach in working with the child’s birth parents and promote emotional healing in the parent.

 

 

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Trained by:
Sabrina Byrnes
Vincent Secor

 

Class Code & Date:

HTCS030510NW: March 5-6, 2010

 

Training Flyer:
htcs030510nw.pdf

 

Training Location:

March 5-6, 2010
Garfield County DHS
108 8th Street
Board of County Commissioners Room
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

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Time:

4:30 pm - 9:00 pm on Friday
8:30 am - 4:30 pm on Saturday

Attendance is required on both days

This training is eligible for 11 of the state's 27 required continuing training hours.

 

Cost:

FREE for all Colorado County Foster Parents/Kinship Care Providers, and Colorado County Caseworkers.

$25.00 if you are with a Private Agency or an Adoptive Parent.