Website/URL: http://traumaticstressinstitut...-Brochure-6.2013.pdf
Organized By: Klingberg Family Centers
Contact Info: (860) 832-5504
The release of RC for Foster Parents comes at an opportune time. Across the nation, states are relying less on residential treatment to treat their most stressed children and youth. Instead, they hope to develop foster families for these youth. The key to the children being able to heal is offering the foster families enough support that they can keep the child in their home and limit disruptions.
One important element of foster parent support is training. Understanding trauma -- how it affects children, and how they can heal -- helps the family define problem behavior differently. Foster parents learn to see that the behavior is not about them, but instead an understandable adaptation to the child's traumatic experiences....
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