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This two-part training session offers participants an opportunity to examine the issue of implicit bias to recognize individual implicit biases and their impact on professional practice in child welfare. Discussion will occur on the issue of privilege and its impact on professional and personal relationships with people of color.
The session will invite courageous dialogue on the highly sensitive issues related to racial disparity and disproportionality of children in the child welfare system. Through the topics of white privilege and implicit bias, the trainers will help participants contextualize how these are some of the root causes of these disparities. This discussion will encourage participants to recognize and develop a deeper understanding of their role as professionals to work as effectively as possible with families and children of color.
Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. Children from hard places include children who experienced distress in the womb or during delivery, were hospitalized early in life, were abused or neglected, or experience trauma, whether natural or man-made. Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Introduction & Overview will focus on understanding the meaning of child behaviors, the brain chemistry of a child from a hard place, and how to help children and families heal and connect. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.
Module 1: Understanding Trauma
Learning objectives:
1. Understanding TBRI®: TBRI® is an evidenced based, trauma informed, wholistic intervention
2. Understanding Risk Factors: The risks factors and how they alter the developmental trajectory
3. How to get back on track: The three principles (Connecting, Empowering, Correcting) that work together to bring healing to children
Module 2: Connecting & Empowering Principles
Connecting Learning objectives:
1. Understanding mindfulness strategies: what I bring to the table matters when building connection/trust with children
2. Understanding engagement strategies: how I can work with a child to build trust in a way that they will respond to
3. Understanding the Attachment Cycle: how it works, what it lays the foundation for, what happens when the cycle is disrupted
Empowering Learning objectives:
Be a detective by:
1. Understanding physiological strategies: (Internal) meeting hydration, blood sugar, and sensory needs
2. Understanding ecological strategies: (External) what’s going on around children affects their behavior- transitions
Module 3: Correcting Principles: Proactive & Responsive
Proactive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding that Proactive strategies let children know that they have a voice, that their voice matters, and that safe adults will acknowledge their voice.
2. Understanding Choices: what they are, why they work, how to do them
3. Understanding compromises: what they are, why they work, how to do them
4. Understanding life value terms: what they are, why they work, how to do them
Responsive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding how the IDEAL Response helps a caregiver respond in a way that will promote healing, not further damage with trust
2. Understanding how the Levels of Response help caregivers know the path of least resistance and how to get back to connection
Module 4: Putting it all Together
Synopsis: Seeing how connecting, empowering, and correcting principles work together harmoniously
– Watching TBRI put into practice
– Case studies to recognize where TBRI strategies could be implemented
Join us for this free 1-hour webinar, as we explore generational differences and commonalities in the LGBTQIA+ community and discuss how ageism, homophobia, cultural/religious values, and life course inequalities impact LGBTQIA+ people and the nature of intergenerational relations.
Presenters will share ideas for creating safe spaces and programs that intentionally bring people of different ages together to engage in meaningful exchange, advocate for policy changes, and foster intergenerational empathy.
Presenters include:
- Adam Greteman, Associate Professor of Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Co-founder of the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project
- Phyllis Johnson, Elder Liaison, LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project
- Katia Elise Klemm, Undergraduate Research Assistant, LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project
- Andrew King, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- Wilfred Labiosa, Founder and CEO, Waves Ahead, Puerto Rico
A 30-minute optional Q&A Session will follow the 1-hour event.
Attendance is open, but all participants must register in advance to attend. The webinar will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be shared with everyone who registers.
This webinar is presented as part of Generations United’s Shared Site Learning Network which is made possible with support from The Eisner Foundation.
By registering for this event, you consent to receive occasional emails from Generations United.
Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. TBRI® Correcting Principles will provide an in-depth look at strategies for correcting behaviors. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.
Module 1: Understanding Trauma
Learning objectives:
1. Understanding TBRI®: TBRI® is an evidenced based, trauma informed, wholistic intervention
2. Understanding Risk Factors: The risks factors and how they alter the developmental trajectory
3. How to get back on track: The three principles (Connecting, Empowering, Correcting) that work together to bring healing to children
Module 2: Connecting & Empowering Principles
Connecting Learning objectives:
1. Understanding mindfulness strategies: what I bring to the table matters when building connection/trust with children
2. Understanding engagement strategies: how I can work with a child to build trust in a way that they will respond to
3. Understanding the Attachment Cycle: how it works, what it lays the foundation for, what happens when the cycle is disrupted
Empowering Learning objectives:
Be a detective by:
1. Understanding physiological strategies: (Internal) meeting hydration, blood sugar, and sensory needs
2. Understanding ecological strategies: (External) what’s going on around children affects their behavior- transitions
Module 3: Correcting Principles: Proactive & Responsive
Proactive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding that Proactive strategies let children know that they have a voice, that their voice matters, and that safe adults will acknowledge their voice.
2. Understanding Choices: what they are, why they work, how to do them
3. Understanding compromises: what they are, why they work, how to do them
4. Understanding life value terms: what they are, why they work, how to do them
Responsive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding how the IDEAL Response helps a caregiver respond in a way that will promote healing, not further damage with trust
2. Understanding how the Levels of Response help caregivers know the path of least resistance and how to get back to connection
Module 4: Putting it all Together
Synopsis: Seeing how connecting, empowering, and correcting principles work together harmoniously
– Watching TBRI put into practice
– Case studies to recognize where TBRI strategies could be implemented
Learn strategies and hands-on techniques to help keep children calm, prevent tantrums and reduce stress in both you and your child.
Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. TBRI® Correcting Principles will provide an in-depth look at strategies for correcting behaviors. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.
This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing. This live, online training has 4 video-conferencing modules, giving participants the opportunity learn in an interactive environment.
Please Note: Participants must attend TBRI Introduction and Overview prior to attending this training.
Module 1: Introduction to Correcting & Nurture Groups
Learning objectives:
1. Gain an understanding of the 4 parenting styles and which one is most effective when caring for children from hard places.
2. Gain an understanding of the importance of a balance between structure and nurture.
3. Gain an understanding that the goal of correction should be connection, contentment, and changed behavior.
4. Gain an understanding of when and how to use proactive correcting strategies
5. Gain an understanding of the importance of play to disarm fear and mentor the capacity of our kids to regulate themselves.
6. Gain an understanding of the different components of nurture groups
Module 2: Responsive Strategies & Correcting Principles in Action
Learning objectives:
1. Gain understanding regarding where to set the behavioral bar for children
2. Gain understanding regarding how to put TBRI Correcting principles into practice in your setting by examining behavioral episodes.
3. Gain understanding that all behavioral episodes should end with these 3 components:
• Child and caregiver feeling more connected to each other
• Child and caregiver feeling content
• Child showing behavioral change
4. Gain understanding of how to be efficient when responding to children’s behaviors
We invite you to attend the 2024 Caucus for Children!
Join us at a meeting in your area! Every voice is very important for our children’s future. This plan will cover the next five years of strategic efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect across Louisiana.
Please invite all of your parish and city leaders, educators, faith-based leaders, nonprofit and civic organizations, law enforcement, medical and legal professionals, social service groups and more! We want to have a full and robust response in each area to help determine a customized regional plan.
AGENDA
- 9am Welcome & Introductions
- 9:30am Networking Activity
- 10am Regional Trends & Data Discussion
- 10:30am Recommendations & Solutions Discussion
- 11am Prioritization of Recommendations & Solutions
- 11:30am Wrap-up and Closing Comments
Questions? Call Team Dynamics at 985-624-3514.
Attendees – please bring business cards and or flyers to share with others in your region!
We invite you to attend the 2024 Caucus for Children!
Join us at a meeting in your area! Every voice is very important for our children’s future. This plan will cover the next five years of strategic efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect across Louisiana.
Please invite all of your parish and city leaders, educators, faith-based leaders, nonprofit and civic organizations, law enforcement, medical and legal professionals, social service groups and more! We want to have a full and robust response in each area to help determine a customized regional plan.
AGENDA
- 9am Welcome & Introductions
- 9:30am Networking Activity
- 10am Regional Trends & Data Discussion
- 10:30am Recommendations & Solutions Discussion
- 11am Prioritization of Recommendations & Solutions
- 11:30am Wrap-up and Closing Comments
Questions? Call Team Dynamics at 985-624-3514.
Attendees – please bring business cards and or flyers to share with others in your region!
This six-hour training on the topic of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse is being offered in three parts and will take place on Tuesday, October 15, 22 and 29 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Eastern. This training series is targeted for staff working in child welfare related agencies and anyone working with children and their families where there has been no formal disclosure, but sexual abuse is suspected.
In most cases, there will not be a formal disclosure that warrants the involvement of law enforcement or child protective services. The hope is that each one of us can contribute in their own way to support children to access help when they are ready, and that no opportunity is missed through lack of knowledge, skills, or tools to interact with a child that is demonstrating signs of abuse.
This training series will have a special focus on father-child intrafamilial child sexual abuse which will include fathers, stepfathers, and male partners. The intent of these interactive sessions is to build capacity for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, identification, and intervention with families.
The facilitators hope to impress on the participants the scope of this issue and the long-lasting impact of trauma on children that experience this type of abuse. Special attention will be directed to building practice wisdom and understanding of psychosomatic symptoms, concepts such as complex trauma and the overlap with other clinical presentations.
Participants may grapple with the great responsibility of decision making in these cases. Verification of concerns can be the first step to intervention or if made in error cause unneeded separation within families.
This training will also focus on interconnected themes and demonstrate connections to enhance practice and client engagement. The topics covered will include the role of the practitioner, application of theory, research, and practice philosophies, to support practice. Assessment tools will be provided which may support practitioners to gather and assess data.
The assessments process will include information gathering, understanding the context in which abuse occurs and the many powerful barriers that function to prevent detection. Topics such as pre-abuse functioning, family functioning and presentations, symptomology-victimology link, and the importance of strategy for engagement with children will also be discussed.
Inquiry into the dynamics of intrafamilial child sexual abuse enables inquiry into the beliefs, actions, and behaviors of children, offenders and in many cases the parent(s) who did not offend. The facilitators will also touch on strategies for engagement with each party for the triangulation of data. A holistic, non-accusatory inquiry strategy supports engagement and the collection of valuable information for assessment and ways of working with the family.
Facilitators:
Dr. Delphine Collin-Vezina, a trained psychologist and full professor at McGill University in Quebec, Canada. She is also an expert in child sexual abuse and trauma and has over twenty-five years of experience.
Gerald Walsh, MSW, RSW, a front-line child welfare investigator with Child and Family Services of Grand Erie, Ontario, Canada. He is a presenter of investigative techniques and has been involved with the training of social work students, child welfare staff, and law enforcement.
Special acknowledgement is also given to the valuable contributions of Andrew Koster, MSW, RSW and co-author of the recent book titled Child Sexual Abuse Investigations and Assessments published by CWLA.
Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. Children from hard places include children who experienced distress in the womb or during delivery, were hospitalized early in life, were abused or neglected, or experience trauma, whether natural or man-made. Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Introduction & Overview will focus on understanding the meaning of child behaviors, the brain chemistry of a child from a hard place, and how to help children and families heal and connect. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.
Module 1: Understanding Trauma
Learning objectives:
1. Understanding TBRI®: TBRI® is an evidenced based, trauma informed, wholistic intervention
2. Understanding Risk Factors: The risks factors and how they alter the developmental trajectory
3. How to get back on track: The three principles (Connecting, Empowering, Correcting) that work together to bring healing to children
Module 2: Connecting & Empowering Principles
Connecting Learning objectives:
1. Understanding mindfulness strategies: what I bring to the table matters when building connection/trust with children
2. Understanding engagement strategies: how I can work with a child to build trust in a way that they will respond to
3. Understanding the Attachment Cycle: how it works, what it lays the foundation for, what happens when the cycle is disrupted
Empowering Learning objectives:
Be a detective by:
1. Understanding physiological strategies: (Internal) meeting hydration, blood sugar, and sensory needs
2. Understanding ecological strategies: (External) what’s going on around children affects their behavior- transitions
Module 3: Correcting Principles: Proactive & Responsive
Proactive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding that Proactive strategies let children know that they have a voice, that their voice matters, and that safe adults will acknowledge their voice.
2. Understanding Choices: what they are, why they work, how to do them
3. Understanding compromises: what they are, why they work, how to do them
4. Understanding life value terms: what they are, why they work, how to do them
Responsive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding how the IDEAL Response helps a caregiver respond in a way that will promote healing, not further damage with trust
2. Understanding how the Levels of Response help caregivers know the path of least resistance and how to get back to connection
Module 4: Putting it all Together
Synopsis: Seeing how connecting, empowering, and correcting principles work together harmoniously
– Watching TBRI put into practice
– Case studies to recognize where TBRI strategies could be implemented