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.

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

• 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.