Trauma Informed Care

• ​Participants will be able to summarize basic neurological and developmental effects of trauma as well as list physical symptoms of psychological trauma. 

• Participants will understand “symptoms” as coping strategies children develop to address the harm being done to them.

• Participants will be able to determine the breakdown of information processing for people impacted by traumatic events.

• Participants will be able to describe the acquisition of affect regulation.

• Participants will be able to describe the threat response.

• Participants will be able to summarize the neuro-scientific effects of trauma on attention and concentration.

• Participants will be able to discuss helplessness and dissociation. 

• Participants will be able to describe survival action patterns.

• Participants will be able to explain at least three specific techniques that are helpful to children who have experienced trauma.

• Participants will identify one specific practice that they will begin as a “universal helpful practice”, for children in their programs who have experienced significant trauma.

• Participants will learn strategies to help families cope with and heal from the traumas they have endured.

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