Describes promising approaches to implementing trauma-informed child welfare practice to improve placement stability for children in foster care.
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Is designed to mitigate secondary trauma symptoms experienced by child welfare staff, and secondary trauma’s impact on unit and agency functioning.
Highlights key points for providers, family advocates, and policymakers to understand about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child trauma. This resource was adapted from...
Gives supervisors and administrators in the child welfare system the information on the importance of addressing secondary traumatic stress (STS).
Discusses the impact of trauma and the experience of young children in the child welfare system and the signs, symptoms, and consequences of trauma in infants, young children, and their caregivers.
Discusses overcoming barriers, including the range of clinical experience and training among those administering trauma screening.
Highlights the importance of understanding the serious consequences that trauma histories can have for birth parents and the subsequent potential impact on their parenting. This fact sheet is for child welfare workers.
Discusses the importance of quality supervision that organizations can provide to staff members at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS).
Is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in STS cross-disciplinary version.
Describes child and adolescent trauma exposure and psychosocial functioning among NCTSN care recipients in residential care.