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Let's Connect [1]

Let’s Connect®is an evidence-based, trauma-informed parenting program for caregivers and their children. It helps caregivers identify and respond to children’s emotional needs to foster connection, warmth, and promote  social-emotional competence, mental health, and resilience. LC builds parents’ skills in three areas: parents’ own emotional awareness, acceptance, and regulation, creating intentional family environments, and emotion-focused, relationship skills. LC also supports caregivers to use LC skills to address children’s behavioral challenges and to support difficult family conversations, including conversations about trauma-related topics. LC skills are taught through a combination of discussions, video examples, role play, self-reflection, mindfulness, and live coaching of skills. Facilitators model and embody LC skills which is crucial for engaging families, especially for children and families who have experienced trauma. Updated in 2025.

Acronym: 
LC
Trauma Type: 
General
Modality: 
Individual, Family
Targeted Populations: 
3-15; both males and females; for children who have experienced a wide range of traumas
Fact Sheet [2]
Published in 2019

Source URL:https://www.nctsn.org/interventions/lets-connect

Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/interventions/lets-connect [2] https://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/interventions/lets-connect-2025.pdf