Exploring Trauma-Informed Organizational Practices and Self-Care:Strengthening Resilience Factors Among Child Welfare Workers Due to the traumatic nature of child welfare work, professionals employed in this sector experience significant threats to well-being, with estimates suggesting that nearly one in three experience … Read More
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Trauma-Informed Approach: Best Practices for Children’s Attorneys
LSBA Children’s Law Committee This guide provides Louisiana children’s attorneys, including those working in child welfare, delinquency, and mental health, with information on best practices and resources needed to develop a trauma-informed approach and effectively serve their clients. It is … Read More
“That Wasn’t So Bad”: Limiting Additional Trauma in a Forensic Interview Erica Bennett; Rachel Booker; Alison Munshi; Morgan Hines; Julie Kenniston
Abstract Families, community members, and professionals often view forensic interviews as traumatizing for children. However, research and practice in forensic interviewing indicate that these interviews are not inherently traumatizing. To minimize additional trauma, interviewers can employ techniques such as anticipatory … Read More
Secondary Traumatic Stress and The Child Welfare Workforce: A Case Study on Resilience.
Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) can occur at high rates in professions where employees are indirectly exposed to trauma, have high workloads, and are exposed to other stressors and pressures. Specifically, Child Welfare (CW) staff are at high risk of STS … Read More
President Biden Proclaims November as Native American Heritage Month
During National Native American Heritage Month, we honor the history, rich cultures, and vast contributions of Native peoples. We celebrate the hundreds of Tribal Nations that are ushering in a new era in our Nation-to-Nation relationships. And we recommit to … Read More
Advancing Child Trauma Screening Practices: An Evidence-Informed Framework for a Pictorial Child Trauma Screening Tool
Child trauma exposure has been identified as a public health crisis, with lifetime victimization/exposure rates for children ages birth to 18 years ranging from 9% to over 50%, depending on the type of victimization (Finkelhor et al., 2013). The Substance … Read More
Building Resilience in Children After Trauma
Embarrassing mom truth: When my toddler was learning to walk, I asked my mom friends if I could put a helmet on her so she wouldn’t bump her head. This mama instinct came from a desire to protect my child … Read More
Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) before age 3: Evidence for the Family Map Inventory
INTRODUCTION Engaging and supporting parents as key nurturers of children is a hallmark objective of Early Head Start (EHS) and other high quality childhood education programs (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, 2022). In particular, two-generation programs like … Read More
Charting the Path to Healing & Resilience
A National Compendium of Trauma-Responsive Policies and Programs Introduction Across the country, policymakers and community leaders are working to create environments that foster health and wellbeing for their residents. As part of this effort, there is growing recognition that experiencing … Read More
Containing Trauma: Closing the Wounds that we Open
Flashbacks. Nightmares. Distractability. Mood changes. Hyper-arousal. Developmental arrest. We are taught about the signs and symptoms of traumatic wounding through books and articles, trainings and conferences, symposiums and panels. We have learned how to adeptly detect our clients’ injuries—the moral, … Read More