ACE (in collaboration with Children’s Trust) (3 Contact Hours)
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur in a child’s life. Science shows the strong relationship between the bad things that happen as children and negative health and well-being as adults. By better understanding ACEs, what they are and how they can manifest themselves years later, communities can work to prevent future abuse and improve outcomes for South Carolina’s children and families.
ARC Reflections (Attachment, Regulation, and Competency) (13.5 to 18 Contact Hours)
The Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) treatment framework is a components-based model for working with youth and caregivers of youth who have experienced and been affected by trauma. It focuses on: building healthy attachments among youth and caregivers; supporting youth in their ability to identify, understand, tolerate and shift emotional and physiological responses and experiences; supporting normative developmental competencies that may have been derailed by trauma exposure; and integrating trauma experiences.
Building Resilience in Children (2 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants Understand what resilience in children means and how it works, Know how it relates to self-calming, competence, and emotional intelligence in children’s development and health, Know how trauma can undermine the development of resilience and Learn some ways to help children develop and maintain resilience.
Caring for Children Who Experienced Trauma (3 Contact Hours)
This workshop for resource parents is based on four modules of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s curriculum. Participants will be able to: Describe the concept of trauma informed parenting and its benefits. Define trauma and describe how children may respond to traumatic events. Define resilience and describe how you can promote resilience in your children. Describe the ways in which trauma can interfere with children’s development and functioning. Describe how children of different ages may respond to trauma. Describe the “invisible suitcase” and how trauma-informed parenting can “repack” the suitcase. Describe the key components of a safety message and how to deliver an effective safety message to children who have experienced trauma; Define trauma-reminders and give an example of a trauma reminder and reaction; List at least three ways you can help with trauma reminders.
Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (2 Contact Hours)
SCFPA contract trainers currently deliver this curriculum which was developed by the Family Violence Prevention Fund with support from Annie E. Casey Family-to-Family Initiative
In Spite of…She’s Still My Mother (2 Contact Hours)
Aid the participants in understanding that the mother is the first, the basic caretaker. Understand how losing Mother -in a physical or emotional way- starts a nightmare of deprivation for a child. In a way, it never ends. Understand many negative conditions and feelings experienced later in life may have their roots in this extremely traumatic experience: the early childhood abandonment or rejection by Mother.
Loss & Grief in Foster Care (3 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants define and describe loss and grief, examine some common factors in loss and grief of all kinds, better understand birth parents’ reactions to removal of children, understand foster children’s losses and how their behaviors and moods are related to them, gain perspective on their own loss and grief when foster children move on, develop some strategies for dealing positively with loss and grief on everyone’s part
Parenting Children Who’ve Been Sexually Abused (2 Contact Hours)
This training builds on the earlier curriculum Child Sexual Abuse and Its Implications for Foster Parents. It is intended to help participants review the nature, signs, and symptoms of child sexual abuse and how it affects development and behavior; understand the challenges and risks of foster parenting children and teens who have been sexually abused, know the best ways of helping children and teens who are sexually acting outand lessen the risks while helping children and teens who’ve been sexually abused get back on path developmentally and socially
Parenting Children with Attachment Disorders (3 Contact Hours)
Helps foster parents understand attachment disorders, recognize related behaviors, and learn effective parenting strategies.
Stages of Development and how Trauma Effects Development (3 Contact Hours)
This training is intended to help participants: understand child development sufficiently to spot and address developmental problems with children in their care, understand fully the kinds of trauma children may have experienced and how trauma affects their development and behavior in immediate and evolving ways, know their responsibilities for helping children deal with the outcomes of maltreatment and other trauma and some ways of doing so, recognize that children in foster and adoptive care experience loss and grief when leaving birth families, as do birth and resource families at separations, and that this is likely to significantly affect behaviors in everyone involved and know ways of helping children and themselves deal with loss and grief, including life changes and outcomes of abuse and neglect.
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Series (8 Contact Hours)
(TBRI) is an attachment-based, evidence-based, and trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. Rhonda has developed a four-part training based on these principles. See the upcoming schedule below. Each training is worth 2 contact hours and you will receive 8 contact hours if you attend all four trainings in the series.