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Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
9:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM EDT
Provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of the needs and challenges transgender and gender-expansive youth face. This new webinar covers basic definitions surrounding gender, gender identity, and gender expression, while creating a learning environment for participants to examine th...Reconnecting a Grieving Teen to Her Community
Thursday, October 17, 2019
10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT
Focuses on the grief experiences of Geri, an adolescent, and her maternal grandmother, Mima, four months after her mother was murdered by her father. In this session, Geri talks about the challenges of attending a new, predominantly white school in her grandmother’s neighborhood where she now live...Trauma and Race: Opportunities and Challenges for Therapists of Color Working with Families of Color
In this webinar, viewers see critically important moments from three dramatized therapy sessions and hear from seasoned trauma therapists who reflect on their own experiences in working with clients of similar and different racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. Through thoughtful discussion, p...Serving LGBTQ Youth in Residential and Out of Home Care
This webinar aims to build provider awareness on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in psychiatric, child welfare, juvenile justice, and other residential settings. Speakers will examine the effects of trauma and the systemic barriers faced by LGBTQ youth in out of home care. Participants will hear pers...
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Promoting Trauma-Informed Policies and Practices to Address Child Sex Trafficking
This webinar will provide examples of state and federal policy issues related to child sex trafficking. Further, NCTSN resources related to the topic will be shared.Understanding the Complex Needs of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
This speaker series will tackle the specific strategies and challenges within each child serving system providing services to commercially sexually exploited children.Â
Addressing Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence in Families Affected by Substance Use
In this webinar, presenters describe the connections between intimate partner violence and substance use. They discuss the impact of these challenges on parenting and children, and suggest strategies for working with affected families. In their presentation speakers focus on the perpetrator of the ...Trauma and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Toolkit
The Road to Recovery: Supporting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Have Experienced Trauma Toolkit was developed by the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) and the NCTSN Trauma & IDD Expert Panel, a national selection of individuals with expert...
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Psychological First Aid Online
PFA online includes a 6-hour interactive course that puts the participant in the role of a provider in a post-disaster scene. This professionally-narrated course is for individuals new to disaster response who want to learn the core goals of PFA, as well as for seasoned practitioners who want a r...
The 12 Core Concepts: An Online Interactive Course
This course contains interactive online lessons that lead you through the 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families. The Core Concepts are conceptual lenses used to better understand childhood trauma, its causes, effects, and strength-ba...Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit
The Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit course assists those in the field of child welfare who wish to learn more about child welfare and trauma. The backbone of the course is the newly released second edition of the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit which teaches basic knowledge, skills, and ...Addressing Transition Issues for Young Foster Children
Presenters discuss the many transitions experienced by and the challenges transitions pose for young traumatized children in the child welfare system. Whether responding to the transition from the biological parents' home to a foster home, from foster home to foster home, or the changes accompanying...