Trauma-Informed

Trauma and its impact on children is something that has to be understood so children and the families they are entrusted to via adoption, foster, and kinship care have the specific support they need.

This month we highlight NTDC’s focus on providing tools families need in order to provide a nurturing environment that promotes healthy child development for children experiencing trauma often related to separation, loss, and grief.

NTDC’s Trauma-Informed training was created in partnership with The ChildTrauma Academy and features Dr. Bruce Perry, Principal of the Neurosequential Network, and co-author of the best-selling book “What Happened to You”. The focus on trauma throughout the curriculum makes trauma-informed parenting a real and reachable goal!

Sample Curriculum Components

Get a glimpse of NTDC’s content and tools featuring world-renowned experts as well as members of the foster care, kinship, and adoption communities.

Brain Basics – Model of the Brain featuring Dr. Bruce Perry
In this Trauma-informed theme, you’ll hear from Dr. Bruce Perry as he helps parents understand brain basics and reminds us all that – “children’s brains process the present as if it were the past.”

Check out the NTDC video on Brain Basics featuring Dr. Bruce Perry

Parenting a Child with a History of Sexual Trauma (Dr. Caelan Soma, Amarilis Garcia, & Debbie Shugg)
The Sexual Trauma video describes the impact that sexual abuse or inappropriate exposure to sexual activity can have on a child and how this can impact the child’s behavior and healthy sexual development. We hear the story of one family’s journey as they found out about their daughter’s sexual abuse and how they set up a safe, nurturing home that allowed her to heal and thrive.

Check out the NTDC Right Time Video on Sexual Trauma

Related Themes

Take action to implement NTDC today with the help of our team!

TTT available – find dates here www.ntdcportal.org
Need support or assistance in taking steps to implement NTDC? Our team can help by:
- walking you and your teams through how the curriculum works
- sharing tips and lessons learned from pilot sites
- connecting you to other sites that have already implemented or are currently implementing
Listen to the a latest episode of The Child Welfare Information Gateway podcast featuring key members of the NTDC team

For more information contact Sue Cohick

Words From Facilitators

I loved the material, especially the displays of understanding and the stories!

NTDC Facilitator

I appreciated the activities that tugged on my own emotions because it took a personal experience and related it to what kids in foster care experience but to a higher degree.

NTDC Facilitator

The “Real-Life” videos and examples are also excellent tools for empowering foster/adoptive parents.

NTDC Facilitator

Theme content incorporating many podcasts and real life videos will greatly enhance foster parent training.

NTDC Facilitator

Material is well organized, rich in content for families and easy to understand.

NTDC Facilitator

Love the trauma informed material that will help parents gain a better understanding of child’s behavior.

NTDC Facilitator

The building of themes really work well together. It flows very well in the format.

NTDC Facilitator

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This product was funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under grant #90CO1134. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Children’s Bureau.

Trauma-Informed

Sample Curriculum Components

Related Themes

Trauma Related Behavior

Trauma Informed Parenting

Effectively Parenting the Child with a History of Sexual Trauma

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