Trauma-informed Training

Julie-Anne provides trauma-informed Competent Care training etc to organisations and individuals who work with children from tough backgrounds or with trauma in their story.

Are you:

  • An organisation/charity/children’s home/school
  • A caregiver
  • A parent or adoptive parent
  • A foster parent
  • A teacher

The aim of the trauma Competent Care Training is to give caregivers like you a thorough understanding of trauma and its impact, along with specific tools, strategies and new ways of relating to support the children you care for. In so doing, you help them heal and grow beyond their traumatizing start in life to truly thrive.

The training is broken down into nine modules but the length and depth of training can be adapted to your needs, ranging from a few hours to four full days.

Setting the foundation: The impact of trauma

  • Why Trauma Competent Care?
  • When Early Neglect and Trauma Are the Child’s Story
  • A Deeper Look at Complex Developmental Trauma
  • Living in Chronic Fear
  • The Good News

Trauma’s Impact on Child Development

  • Introduction and “What’s In It for Me?”
  • Five Children
  • The Verdict is In
  • Attachment: Exploring Four Questions
  • Understanding Self-Regulation
  • Understanding Sensory Processing
  • Developmental Delays and Revisiting Five Children
  • Spiritual Development

Setting the foundation: The impact of trauma

  • Why Trauma Competent Care?
  • When Early Neglect and Trauma Are the Child’s Story
  • A Deeper Look at Complex Developmental Trauma
  • Living in Chronic Fear
  • The Good News

Tools for the Journey and Maximizing Felt Safety

  • Introduction
  • Essential Skill #1: Using Tools to Understand the Impact of Trauma
  • Essential Skill #2: Maximizing a Child’s Sense of Felt Safety
  • Conclusion

ESSENTIAL SKILL 3: Reducing Overwhelming Emotions

  • Introduction and Review
  • Children and Teens’ Greatest Needs
  • Parenting Styles
  • Strategies for Building Attachment
  • Building Connections
  • Deepening Trust & Attachment
  • Strategies for Positive Interaction

ESSENTIAL SKILL 4: Reducing Difficult Behaviors

  • Introduction and Review
  • Traditional Parenting Discipline Methods
  • Reasons for Misbehavior
  • Frustration and Aggression
  • Fear of Separation
  • Tracking Challenging Behaviors
  • Positive Activation Phrases
  • Making a Plan
  • Questions that Transform Our Response

ESSENTIAL SKILL 5: Supporting Healthy Relationships

  • Introduction and Review
  • Loss
  • Psychological Presence
  • Essential Connections
  • Two Children, Two Stories, Two Outcomes
  • Caregiver Thoughts, Feelings, and Responses

ESSENTIAL SKILL 6: Developing Strengths-Based Life Stories

  • Introduction and Review
  • You Are in Charge
  • Whose History Is It?
  • Two Questions
  • Events and Memory
  • Ten Principles of Telling the Truth
  • Telling A Difficult History

ESSENTIAL SKILL 7: Practicing Personal Wellness and Preventing Burnout

  • Guiding Principles of Personal Wellness
  • Looking at Expectations
  • Making Sense of our Own History
  • The Compassion Continuum
  • Processing our Experiences
  • Intentional Margin and Rest

Would you like to talk to Julie-Anne to discuss your training needs?