I can't keep up with all the posts about the incredible work being done all over the country (and world). I've just been looking at the Greater Richmond (VA) Trauma Informed Community Network site where share the most detailed meeting minutes, including summarizing events and speakers they host.
I found resources I'm going to add to the Parenting with ACEs site. and @Lisa Wrightgave me permission to broadcast them all over the home page, too. Here's an excerpt from a recent post.
TICN Speaker – Nina Marino - ARC Reflections and TST-FC: two new trauma-responsive skill building curricula for foster/adoptive and kinship families.
Curricula are available free online at these links:
The two curricula-ARC Reflections and TST-FC were created to increase parent skill-building for families who are certified and have or are parenting children in foster care. ARC Reflections was piloted in several counties in NC and Fairfax, VA. TST-FC was piloted in two counties in Ohio and Maryland. The hypothesis was that if we can assist parents in addressing challenging behaviors and self-regulation for both parents and kids, then we can increase placement stability and permanency while also retaining more foster families.
Both models were evaluated by Child Trends to look at how the implementation was handled and if parents showed changes in their knowledge and beliefs around trauma-informed parenting. Both models showed gains from pre and post-test data indicating that families that went through the trainings showed higher levels of praise for the children in their home and nurturance.
The models include facilitator guides, power point slides for each module, room set up, pre/post test measures for parents and fidelity checklists. ARC Reflections also includes a corresponding case worker guide to re-enforce with families the weekly concepts.
Find Nina’s PPT HERE.
C2Adopt is providing a training for adoptive and foster to adopt parents in March on Friday-Saturday. Find more info on the C2Adopt website
P.S. Cissy's Note: The presentations had information about the rat experiment that showed that when cat hair is introduced into a space where rats were just going about rat life and playing - all play stopped. Even when the hair was removed the cats didn't return to any play for 3 to 5 days. The presence of cat hair alone changed things and that was with rats that had never been previously attacked or in imminent danger with a cat.
Fear is literally a kill-joy.
Survival is strong. Fear lingers and lasts and harms the ability not only to be free enough to play but all the relating with happens when safe enough to be playing with others. Isn't that amazing? don't remember a lot of studies but I remember that one and how clearly it showed what fear alone can do and how even when the causes of fear are removed. It made my own fearfulness of people more understandable. If any kid has ever lived to know that humans be nurturers as well as predators - it changes the way we relate to people. It's can't be unknown. And fearfulness is survival driven, not pathological, and if we truly understand that we might make more sense to ourselves and others and others may make more sense to us. Check out the slides from the presentation Lisa summarized. Here's more about the rats.
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