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In this webinar, presenters describe their most poignant moments in the response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the impact on their work, the role of the NCTSN, and considering its growth in the last decade the future of the disaster mental health field.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar, viewers will meet Mr. Smith, a 27-year-old single father who works full-time as a health worker. He and his fiancé would like full custody of his 7-year-old son, Samuel. His son is under the care of the Department of Children and Families (DCF) after Samuel’s pre-school teacher reported that he was sleeping in class and arriving to school, on numerous occasions, unkempt and hungry. The school made multiple, yet unsuccessful attempts to meet and speak with Samuel’s mother, Ms. Johnson. Mr. Smith does not understand why DCF did not contact him first instead of placing Samuel in a foster home. He is now required to meet with a social worker, Mr. Muhammad, to “learn parenting skills.”
Discuss research findings and real-life experiences to better understand how gang involvement affects young people’s emotional and psychological well-being. This webinar explores parallels between gang-involved youth and other vulnerable populations, such as youth who have experienced trafficking, and highlights promising trauma-informed approaches that can help. It also offers recommendations for intervention, research, and systemic changes to better support at-risk youth and their communities.
In this webinar, trauma experts will debate and explore the pros and cons of adopting a formal Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) diagnosis. Polyvictimized youth develop a broad spectrum of psychopathologies, with a number of complex comorbidities which can present unique diagnostic and treatment challenges. The importance and relevance of including both DTD and PTSD diagnoses into existing diagnostic systems, along with key considerations, will be discussed.
In this webinar, viewers meet 17-year-old Terrell, who is in his fourth therapy session—a teletherapy meeting with Dr. Wizdom Powell. During this session, Terrell realizes that he has been avoiding his feelings about his recent, challenging relationship with his stepfather. Dr. Powell also helps Terrell open up about his feelings of anger and sadness associated with the memory and deep loss of his foster father, who died in an automobile accident when Terrell was just a boy. Terrell discovers a path in his family relationships that allows him to honor and sustain a connection with both of his fathers.
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 intimate partner violence.
Provides training and materials for mental health clinicians and substance abuse treatment providers on the complex intersections between psychological trauma and co-occurring substance abuse and dependency. The course includes interactive online modules on understanding the links between traumatic stress and substance use among adolescents, a webinar and lecture presentation featuring expert faculty from the NCTSN, and a four-part Train-the-Trainer video series entitled “Trauma and Co-Occurring Disorders: Understanding and Working with Youth and Their Caregivers.”
This training offers certificate of completion but does not offer any CEs.
This training offers certificate of completion but does not offer any CEs.
Category: Special Populations
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 their own perceptions of gender and reflect on the capacity of their role as a professional. Participants learn about developmental considerations, components of a social transition, and aspects of a medical transition. Presenters examine the impact of trauma transgender and gender-expansive youth may experience and how providers can build an affirming practice and environment for the youth and families that they serve.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
Childhood Traumatic Separation is a trauma in which children experience familial separation under sudden, chaotic, frightening circumstances and develop traumatic stress reactions. Unprecedented numbers of families are being separated at our southern border, and many children experience traumatic separation from close family members due to other circumstances. This webinar describes developmental, cultural, and clinical aspects of Childhood Traumatic Separation; similarities and differences between Childhood Traumatic Separation and Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG); and how evidence-based trauma treatments for CTG can be applied for children with Childhood Traumatic Separation.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased parental stress and rates of intimate partner violence, and contributed to heightened risk for vulnerable children to experience child maltreatment or to develop problematic sexual behaviors (PSB). Without effective treatment, these traumas can contribute to long lasting negative physical and mental health outcomes, but circumstances of the pandemic have created challenges to identifying these children. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially critical for clinicians to assess the full range of interpersonal trauma exposures and responses that youth may experience, and to provide impacted youth with trauma-focused evidence-based treatment. This webinar will describe assessment strategies and evidence-based interventions for interpersonal violence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic across development, with a focus on 1) how to ask children about their trauma experiences and responses; 2) the use of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for young children and their parents/caregivers who experience interpersonal trauma in the wake of COVID-19; 3) features of problematic sexual behaviors (PSB) in children 12 years and younger, the critical role of parents in addressing these, and two evidence-based treatments for this population; and 4) the use of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for youth who experience interpersonal trauma including PSB and their non-offending parents/caregivers.
Category: Child Sexual Abuse
In this webinar Laurel Kiser and Kay Connors describe using the FANS-Trauma to assess a family's needs and strengths and discuss treatment planning upon completing the FANS-Trauma.
This webinar will give an overview of current issues and challenges for law enforcement and the juvenile justice system in assisting children and adolescents who face commercial sexual exploitation. The presenters will discuss promising approaches and models currently used in New York, California, and other communities to identify, intervene with, and support this vulnerable population. Presenters will emphasize practical tips and resources to assist law enforcement and juvenile justice professionals in supporting their communities’ efforts to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
This webinar, developed by Marta Casas LMHC, MEd, Carmen Rosa Noroña LCSW, MSEd and Marcy Safyer, PhD MSW, will provide a basic overview of the intersection of early childhooddevelopment (0-5), attachment and trauma in young migrant children. Presenters discuss trauma and socio-cultural interventions and engage the audience in reflections about best practices and practice-change with this population.
This course is designed to support professional care providers, paraprofessionals, caregivers, and caregiving systems who work with bereaved children, adolescents, and their families. It contains bereavement-related information-gathering and case formulation tools, case studies for discussion and training, resources from the bereavement research literature, webinar presentations, and web links to other bereavement-related resources.
This webinar will introduce the FOCUS Family Resiliency Program, a brief evidence-based intervention that is among the most widely disseminated family-based programs for military populations, and will discuss general issues in adapting it with families who have a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It will introduce overall considerations in working with families and children with IDD, as well as how they may apply to the administration of FOCUS. This will be illustrated with a case description in which the FOCUS Program was adapted for a military family with a teenage daughter diagnosed with autism. The intervention was conducted several years after father’s deployment and during a period in which the family reported high levels of distress. We will discuss ways in which the family benefitted from the protocol, as well as what adjustments to the FOCUS modules proved effective in working with a child on the spectrum.
This webinar will detail how National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) researchers and practitioners with expertise in complex trauma and children partnered with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the New York State Department of Health to establish complex trauma in children as an eligible condition for health home coverage. This translation of research and practice into policy provides an enhanced treatment and financing benefit for children exposed to complex trauma. Learn how New York State put this concept into practice and generated a complex trauma referral workflow for this population of children.
Category: Policy
In this webinar, experts from diverse service sectors will explore trauma-informed, culturally-responsive strategies for serving separated children who have migrated to the US from countries in Latin America. They will discuss policies and practices relevant to the protection and best interests of unaccompanied and separated immigrant children. Presenters will also give viewers an overview of a project providing mental health care and family navigation services for Latino immigrant families along the US southern border and community-based interventions in rural northern New Mexico. In addition, they will identify clinical challenges and strategies for serving migrant children and families in a primary health care setting.
Category: Policy
Developed by Javier Rosado, PhD, Susana Rivera PhD, and Luis Flores, MA, this webinar defines traumatic separation and grief and outlines the developmental impacts on youth. Additionally, participants will learn how to be responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of youth. Participants will learn children’s common fears and perceived threats to safety experienced by youth exposed to traumatic events as well as culturally responsive strategies for staff to use when working with youth.
In this webinar, a mother and her teenage daughter who have experienced severe family violence by an ex-husband/father in the past become embroiled in an intense verbal argument that escalates into sudden physical violence. Their therapist attempts to mediate the disagreement while not siding with either mother or daughter, and then must help the mother recover from shock and dissociation while simultaneously helping the daughter not run away and stay present in the room. Mother and daughter go through a complex series of emotional reactions (anger, fear, guilt, shame, grief) with the help of the therapist, and are able to make the shift from experiencing a flashback of violence to reconnecting with one another based on their core relationship.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) proposes to include a new grief disorder—Prolonged Grief Disorder—in its forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5-Text Revised (DSM-5-TR), which is scheduled for release in 2021. Members of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network have developed recommendations to make these diagnostic criteria more developmentally informed and helpful for providers who serve children and adolescents. This webinar will review the draft criteria, proposed developmental recommendations, and implications, risks, and opportunities that a new grief disorder can bring. The NCTSN encourages providers and members of the public to educate themselves about the newly-proposed grief disorder and to participate as informed consumers during a public comment period, which is scheduled for early April to mid-May 2020. This public comment period presents a critical opportunity to advocate for diagnostic criteria that are developmentally informed.
For more information on the DSM-5-TR Prolonged Grief Disorder visit: https://www.nctsn.org/treatments-and-practices/dsm-5-tr-prolonged-grief-disorder-informed-consumer-and-advocate
Category: Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5
In this webinar, which follows the “Digital Diaries” format, we will meet Joshua, a young adult struggling to find his place in the world, and his therapist Dr. Michael Gomez. Joshua is a composite of several young men, but not an actual client, and is portrayed by an actor in order to protect privacy. Feeling like a “loner” most of his life, Josh has faced many difficulties while growing up. In addition to being abandoned by his mother and lacking a connection with his foster mother, Josh also has had a “love/hate” relationship with his father. In spite of this, he still longs to be part of a family and has been trying to reconnect with his father and his father’s new wife and kids (Josh’s half siblings).
In this webinar, using a new “Digital Diaries” format, we will meet Samantha, a high school student, and her trauma therapist, Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King. Samantha is a composite of several young women, not an actual client, and is portrayed by an actress in order to protect privacy. During the webinar, we will learn about Samantha’s challenges and struggles, but also her triumphs as she navigates through her traumatic experiences. In a unique approach, Dr. Briggs-King encourages Samantha to complete diary entries, not in the traditional paper and pencil way, but electronically. This affords us the opportunity to be with Samantha as she processes these experiences and discovers incredible strengths she is able to tap into.
In this webinar, Elana Newman and Bruce Shapiro provide an overview on how mental health professionals can work with journalists. They discuss the three challenges facing journalists covering disasters and terrorism and present ways mental health professionals can collaborate with the news media. Participants learn how to assess to what degree their current disaster plans are media-friendly. The presenters also provide participants with ways to describe and to plan at least one appropriate strategy to help journalists cover children and disasters. Throughout the webinar, the presenters stress the fact that journalists can collaborate with emergency responders, mental health providers, and officials if their role is respected.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
As the landscape continues to shift increasingly towards integrated care as a mechanism for focusing on whole health, many child serving organizations must grapple with complex issues that arise in implementing integrated care and addressing child trauma in non-traditional settings. This webinar will feature leading child and adolescent experts who will speak about their recommendations for effectively addressing policy challenges in implementing integrated care.
Category: Policy
Explore how trauma and disproportionality are connected and how these experiences impact young people, their families, and their communities. This webinar examines both historical and present-day causes of disproportionality, as well as how exposure to trauma can influence behaviors and interactions within the justice system. The discussion highlights ways to create more supportive, community-centered systems that focus on empowerment and positive change. Presenters share insights on how families and communities can be active partners in shaping fair and effective support services for youth.
Research has shown that LGBTQ youth who have family support have better outcomes through their youth and into adulthood. This is especially relevant for LGBTQ youth who have experienced trauma and may face ongoing safety concerns related to their identities. This webinar will outline techniques for engaging families in affirming treatment and care of their LGBTQ youth, including a review of strategies used within the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) with founder Caitlin Ryan. FAP, a research-based prevention and intervention initiative, uses a culturally grounded framework to help diverse families support their LGBTQ children with decreasing health and mental health risks and promoting well-being. Practitioners will examine ways to engage in cultural humility and understanding when engaging families and youth in trauma treatment.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
This webinar will share how the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT) has been implemented in three different states by non-profit organizations, in partnership with their child welfare jurisdictions.
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Research and experience tell us that youth involved in commercial sexual exploitation seek medical care—for a variety of reasons. In this webinar, presenters will explore the common reasons for seeking care, as well as challenges to victim identification. They will examine how survivors may experience their health care visit and what medical professionals can do to best serve these youth.
In this webinar, speakers will discuss an integrated approach to recognizing and responding to child and family traumatic stress when children have cancer. Speakers will explore the impact of the diagnoses and treatment on the child and family, discuss cultural considerations that may intersect with a family’s response, and describe their approach for assessing, managing and treating traumatic stress.
Often, adolescents may feel heard but not listened to in their family environment. This may be especially true in families with a history of trauma and/or family violence. This webinar will demonstrate approaches therapists can take to help adolescents feel more invested in the family therapy process. During this session, presenters will highlight critical decision points as they relate to trauma and explore them from various perspectives, including that of the therapist and family members.
In this webinar, you will hear from five expert trauma therapists about their experiences and reflective processes while working with children and families who have experienced developmental trauma and come from complex backgrounds in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. In addition, Dr. Rocio Chang (who also participated in the roundtable discussion) will moderate live commentary with Dr. Maureen Allwood, Dr. Ernestine Briggs-King, and Dr. Russell Jones. They will talk about the importance of open conversations related to the roundtable topics as well as the impacts of recent events that have brought racism to the forefront.
In this webinar, experts summarize key areas of implementation science, the NCTSN’s role in implementation, lessons learned, and a call to action for the Summit and beyond. During this 50-minute opening session, Byron J. Powell, PhD, LCSW presents on Opportunities to Improve Implementation in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and the NCTSN's Ginny Sprang shares opening plenary remarks, The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts. Targeted small group discussions specific to the perspectives of agency leaders, trainers, and developers that culminate in initial ideas and recommendations from each group are also highlighted during this webinar.
In this webinar, speakers focus on institutional responses to the current combined crises of community violence during this time of pandemic and unrest. Panelists will represent a range of institutions including law enforcement, juvenile justice, national disaster, public school, and mental health systems.
In this webinar, providers and health care professionals will learn about the consequences and multifactorial etiologies of pediatric obesity and food-related behavior problems. Speakers will describe multidisciplinary preventive interventions and health promotion strategies to improve the health of families who have experienced trauma and will discuss special considerations for child welfare and immigrant populations. A guest family member will aid participants’ understanding of and strategies for improving family engagement in patient care.
The needs of children and families may change in the weeks, months, and years following disasters and terrorism events. To best meet these evolving needs, service providers must appreciate the diversity of recovery trajectories and understand how to stage response activities to promote long-term recovery. This webinar provides an overview of current research and up-to-date knowledge on long-term effects and needs after a disaster, strategies for pacing response activities with the stage of disaster, recommendations for working with systems that support youth living outside the home, including foster care and juvenile justice, and considerations for the role of cultural factors.
In this webinar, Joy and Howard Osofsky provide a foundation for understanding children in disasters. Topics discussed include evaluation and treatment services for traumatized children, school support services, PFA in unusual situations, resilience, and vicarious trauma. The presentation focuses on data on children affected by Katrina.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar, presenters examine the evolution of post-disaster interventions since 9/11.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
This webinar is a virtual guide that walks through Making Think Trauma Stick: A Guide to Training and Implementation, developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). This guide helps support the process of implementation at your organization, introduces key factors and activities to engage in before, during, and after the full Think Trauma training, and includes tips and questions to utilize along the way.
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
In this webinar, viewers will meet Enrique Sanchez, a young immigrant father, who brought his seven-year-old son, Joaquin, to a new country without the rest of their family. Their therapist, Dr. Chang, will discuss a difficult decision with Enrique, regarding concerns she has over Joaquin’s safety and the family’s future.
This webinar presents the current status of mental health assessment, intervention and prevention for commercially sexually exploited youth, and future steps for improving mental health services for this population. During the presentation, first person reflections on the trafficking experience and insights for professionals working with trafficked youth will be provided by a formerly-trafficked young adult advocate.
This webinar will provide a trauma-informed integrated healthcare model for conceptualizing young children exposed to violence and other traumatic stressors. The presenters will address issues pertaining to the identification, management and treatment of traumatic stress in young children exposed to trauma. A clinical case example will be discussed from the perspectives of both a pediatrician and mental health clinicians.
Category: Trauma-Informed Integrated Healthcare
In this webinar, viewers meet James, a 16-year-old African American youth who has been living with his maternal uncle, Patrick, since he and his two younger sisters were removed from their biological parents three years ago when James reported to a teacher that his father physically abused him. The teacher filed a report with Child Protective Services (CPS), quickly leading to the removal of James and his two younger sisters (ages seven and nine at that time) from the family home. CPS has been the legal guardian of all three children ever since. CPS gave Patrick physical custody of James, but James’ sisters were placed with a foster family. Patrick believes James needs help and sends him to see Dr. Julian Ford. During his first telehealth session with Dr. Ford, James is skeptical about whether his older White therapist can understand what it’s like as a young African American man. Together, Dr. Ford and James discuss these differences. Their discussions allow James to open up and share some of his deep frustrations and fears, including how his experiences affect his sense of safety and trust and how Patrick can accept and support him as he navigates these complex issues.
Knowing what federal and regional resources are available and how to access them is an important component of effective all-hazards planning. To best serve children and families in times of disaster and terrorism, organizations should know how different types of events activate different resources and the conditions under which this happens. This webinar provides an overview of the resources available through federal and regional partners, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center.
Strong community partnerships are critical to serving children and families following a disaster or terrorist event. Understanding which organizations are commonly active in disasters and their functions can help child-serving providers build relationships that will strengthen their response in times of need. This webinar provides strategies for establishing and expanding partnerships, discusses considerations for networking in rural and frontier communities, and highlights the role of health care coalitions and schools.
In this webinar, presenters discuss the potential impact of opiates on the developing fetus and the baby. Three experts in the field of neonatal abstinence syndrome and one consumer, with first-hand experience, discuss the potential impact of opiates on the developing fetus, how medical staff assess and support babies and families exposed to opiates, and tips and techniques for parents and providers as they transition from the hospital to either the familys home or a residential treatment facility.
In this webinar Cassandra Kisiel and Tracy Fehrenbach overview the purpose and utility of the CANS-Trauma Comprehensive as an innovative, trauma-informed assessment strategy. Applications of CANS-Traumaare also described, at both the direct service and systems levels, and across a range of service settings. Resources designed to support the implementation and use of the CANS in practice are discussed. Information on training and certification on the CANS-Trauma and use of the CANS in trauma-informed treatment and service planning and caregiver/family engagement is presented.
To date the COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 800,000 deaths in the United States, with more than 140,000 children losing a parent or primary caregiver to COVID-19-related deaths. Due to the nature of these deaths, many children may develop traumatic stress reactions that contribute to problematic grief responses. This webinar will describe aspects of COVID-19-related deaths that can contribute to children’s traumatic stress reactions, with an emphasis on developmental considerations and behavioral health disparities.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
To date, more than 800,000 individuals in the US have died from COVID-19 and more than 140,000 children and teens have lost parents or primary caregivers to COVID-19-related deaths. Many of these youth are at heightened risk for developing traumatic stress reactions to these deaths. This webinar describes trauma-focused evidence-based treatments (EBT) for children and teens who develop traumatic stress reactions, with specific applications to familial deaths during COVID-19 for 1) young children; 2) American Indian and Alaskan Native families; 3) Black and Latinx adolescents with adjunct peer support components; and 4) diverse youth provided via telehealth.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
In this webinar experts will explore policy challenges and lessons learned in promoting and supporting trauma-informed schools. Speakers will share key NCTSN resources related to the development and implementation of trauma-informed schools; discuss the relationship between practice and policy in the sustainability of trauma-informed school models; and share examples and insights gained from the creation and implementation of a trauma-informed school in Los Angeles, California.
Category: Policy
In this webinar, presenters describe how best to prepare our children for emergencies from the standpoint of community preparedness and resilience and of emergency preparedness within school settings.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
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.
Category: Policy
In this webinar speakers describe the fundamentals of Psychological First Aid for Schools (PFA-S). PFA-S helps reduce the distress that school communities can experience after a disaster or violent event. Presenters discuss the importance of working within the school structure and system; how teachers, support staff, and administrators can use PFA-S to prepare for and respond to a disaster or violent event; and how to support the school community as a whole, including working with students, staff, and families.
Category: Schools and Trauma
In this webinar, Robert Macy discusses definitions of psychosocial approaches, disasters, and disaster resiliency. He also develops the concept and understanding of traumascape and outlines the PMH psychosocial continuum of care for disaster trauma. In addition, he discusses the PMH Evaluation Models and reviews the evidence base for Classroom/Culture/Community-Based Intervention (CBI).
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
There is often a story of profound pain and fear behind anger and dysregulated behavior in parent-child relationships. During this session, you will see the modern-day manifestations of the intersection of historical, intergenerational, and migration trauma and its compounding impact with present-day traumatic stressors on the parent-child relationship of an indigenous Guatemalan immigrant family. This webinar depicts significant emotional and relational themes faced by young children who come to the US as unaccompanied minors as well as themes that both the children and their parents face upon reunification. Viewers will also see a framework for engagement where the therapeutic relationship is used as a vehicle for the restoration of safety, co-regulation, protection, and hope in the parent-child relationship. This framework is aimed not only at repairing the child-parent relationship but also at exploring, acknowledging, and including the family’s historical and socio-cultural context in complex trauma treatment.
August 29, 2015 marks the tenth year of recovery from Hurricane Katrina, which affected 1.5 million people throughout the Gulf Coast, of which 1,464 lost their lives. This webinar will focus on the widespread behavioral health impact on the residents of the largest metropolitan area and the surrounding parishes. The presenters all played key roles in the direct operation of response and recovery services from the days preceding Katrina and into the present day. This webinar will first revisit the horrific and unanticipated exposure of first responders, families and children to these historic events and their lingering consequences. Based on this experience and the extreme needs of the population, the second half of the presentation will speak directly to the innovations in treatment and response strategies that were developed and how they have evolved and continue to provide meaningful approaches to addressing child and family needs today throughout the greater New Orleans Area.
In this webinar, Armen Goenjian and Alan Steinberg present their findings from research data on the 1988 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia and make references to other natural disasters. They present research on the longitudinal course of PTSD, controlled treatment outcomes, neurohormonal functioning, impact of single and double trauma, impact on the elderly, moral development, orphans, and genetics of PTSD and depression.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
This webinar will provide an overview of current issues, challenges, and emerging practices facing child welfare jurisdictions across the country as it relates to children who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation. Representatives from San Diego, CA and the state of Rhode Island will discuss how their agency/jurisdiction identifies, intervenes, addresses safety, and works to prevent CSEC. Law enforcement will also provide a valuable perspective that focuses on cross system collaboration for identification and treatment of CSEC, as well as victim advocacy.
In this webinar, Marleen Wong and Melissa Brymer present a process for threat assessment and management in an educational setting. The presentation addresses the process of assessing risks of a particular individual or group of individuals and the design and implementation of management strategies to reduce those risks. Topics discussed include designing and implementing interventions, defining violent behavior, types of school violence, school violence myths, and threat assessment.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
This webinar will introduce a new screening tool used by mental health treatment providers to explore youth identities and identify potentially traumatic experiences for LGBTQ+ youth. LGBTQ+ youth are disproportionately impacted by a wide variety of traumatic experiences, including abuse and neglect, which may not be effectively addressed or treated in the absence of intentional LGBTQ+ affirming practices. The tool intends to promote a shared language around youth identity and a mutual understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth, as well as to support providers in meaningful engagement with youth and their caregivers. Participants will be guided through considerations and planning for how this tool could be implemented with youth and caregivers within the scope of their current organizational engagement and assessment practices.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
Developed by Raven Cuellar, PhD, Carmen Rosa Noroña, LCSW, Ms. Ed., Ginny Sprang, PhD, and Savina Treves, MA, LPC this webinar defines Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case examples, participants will learn who is at risk, organizational and individual factors related to STS, and how to approach support staff wellness.
In this webinar, you will meet Soledad, a 14-year-old girl who has recently been released from her first psychiatric hospitalization after an attempted suicide. Soledad is the oldest of five children. Currently, she lives with two of her siblings in a foster home while her other two younger siblings were sent to a different home. Soledad’s mother was detained by ICE after physically attacking Soledad during what seemed to be a psychotic episode. Soledad is worried about her mother and her two younger siblings, whom she has not seen since they separated. This is Soledad’s first session scheduled by her welfare worker.
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 perspectives from youth, their families, and residential programming staff about the challenges faced by LGBTQ youth in out of home care. In addition, they will present strategies for creating safe, inclusive, and youth-centered spaces and programming, as well as concrete skills for advocating and empowering LGBTQ youth.
Category: Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth
Many states are playing a leadership role in enacting and implementing policies to support trauma-informed services for children and families. This webinar will highlight two examples of such state-based child trauma policy innovations.
Category: Policy
In this webinar speakers focus on strategies and innovations that support the meaningful use of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)-Trauma and Family Assessment of Needs and Strengths (FANS)-Trauma in practice in a range of child and family settings. The presenters illustrate how the CANS/FANS-Trauma can support individual and family-informed trauma case conceptualization, and treatment planning. The also discuss interventions and strategies for using assessments in trauma-informed systems/agency planning and implementation.
Trauma exposure is common among youth and families experiencing substance use problems, and having both problems leads to greater need and impairment. Given the strong link between trauma and substance use, national policy efforts to address substance use must be trauma informed. This webinar will provide an overview of several national policy challenges and solutions in the area of trauma and substance use. Experts will highlight recently enacted and pending federal policy proposals to address substance use issues across the lifespan; discuss the substance use policy challenges facing child trauma practitioners assisting children, youth, and families; and discuss the work of the NCTSN and its Trauma and Substance Abuse Collaborative Group to address these important issues. The experiences and policy-relevant recommendations of a family caregiver familiar with substance use issues will also be highlighted.
Category: Policy
Samantha is a 15-year-old African American girl who lives in public housing in an urban area rife with violence and drug use. Samantha is an outstanding student and attends private school on scholarship, where her friends describe her as beautiful, popular, brilliant, and a star athlete. At age 10, Samantha saw her brother murdered when he was walking her home from school. Their mother became hysterical and chronically depressed, and their father changed from a loving dad to drinking and screaming at the family. Samantha was sexually assaulted by her boyfriend’s male friends at a party at which she, usually a non-drinker, became intoxicated and passed out. Samantha has no memory of the assault and was referred to a female therapist, Dr. Sofia Mattei, by a sexual assault counselor who met with her at the hospital. This webinar presents Samantha’s first therapy session with Dr. Mattei.
Adolescents experiencing co-occurring traumatic stress and substance use problems have greater severity of symptoms, functional impairment, and are often involved with multiple service systems, including Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare. Caring for these youth can take a toll on family members. This webinar will provide a picture of the challenges experienced by families caring for youth with trauma and substance use, address the effect of trauma and substance use in the context of the family, and provide information on promising practices, supports, and resources for families. Featured speakers have experience leading local and national advocacy and support efforts and will share their personal connection to these family struggles. Participants will be able to (1) identify ways in which trauma and substance use are linked for youth and families; (2) understand the effect of youth substance use and family trauma on family functioning; and (3) learn about promising practices, supports, and resources for families.
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 4 storm that created widespread devastation in Puerto Rico in September 2017. This webinar will highlight how the NCTSN brought in culturally-adapted trauma and grief interventions to several child-serving systems and are ensuring the sustainability of these practices to better identify and treat traumatized and bereaved children and families.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar, speakers Daniel Hoover and Peter D’Amico discuss the tailoring of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for use with children and caregivers with significant limitations in cognitive, language, and other executive functions. The speakers will start by discussing the challenges assessing this population, such as the issue of bias and “diagnostic overshadowing,” then will present a structured process for tailoring the TF-CBT components while also allowing for flexibility and fidelity of the treatment. Speakers will offer helpful planning and implementation tools such as a “matrix” of suggested IDD strategies and resources specific to each of the TF-CBT components while illustrating their application through clinical case examples.
In this webinar, you will hear from Andrew Woods, a clinician with over two decades of experience working with boys and men of color. Andrew is the executive director of Hartford Communities That Care (HCTC), a nonprofit 501(c) (3) community-based organization founded in 1998, whose mission is to create a thriving, non-violent and drug free environment for youth and families. As a leader and advocate for victims of violence and trauma in underserved communities, Andrew has developed and implemented culturally appropriate, high quality, and evidence-based crisis response, mental health and supportive programs, partnerships, and policies to improve the lives of youth and adult victims of crime and their families in the Greater Hartford Area of CT.
Discusses how the term community violence has often been associated with urban areas and densely populated communities of color. This webinar broadens the perspective to include rural communities, which are experiencing a rise in community violence but often lack access to robust service structures, specialized training, and key partnerships needed to support families effectively. It offers insights into the shared elements and unique challenges of addressing community violence in urban and rural environments, while highlighting strategies and solutions that have proven effective in both contexts.
In this webinar, you will meet Angel Cooper, Matthew Bump, Weimy Montero, and Marcell Paige, four amazing young adults who will talk about their experiences and thoughts on resiliency. They will reflect on their goals, challenges, healthy coping styles, and hopes for the future. The participants reflections will give us an inside look at resilience and how it can impact developmental trauma. Dr. Rocio Chang will moderate live commentary with Drs. Mandy Habib, Cheryl Lanktree, Monique Marrow, and Isaiah Pickens. In this live commentary, the experts will talk about the importance of having open conversations with young adults as well as how to listen to their own reflections and reactions while these conversations are taking place.
In this webinar we meet Fareed Rogers, a 17-year-old patient at a psychiatric hospital, who has a history of violent behavior. Dr. Samuels, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, with expertise in violence and trauma, has been brought in to evaluate Fareed, and determine if he should be transferred to a high risk unit for adults. Excerpts from this session will be shared in an audio format, followed by a panel discussion of experts, another audio expert, and final round table discussion that includes audience questions.
Refugee youth and their families flee their home country due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion to seek protection in another country. Refugee youth and families are often resettled in urban neighborhoods in North America that have high rates of community violence. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the “double edge sword” that refugee youth experience in resettlement.
This webinar depicts a moment when Rose initially directs her feeling of being victimized toward her therapist. Rose expresses that therapist’s contact with her mother and school has increased the stigma and vulnerability she feels, and her sense that she’s not getting the support she needs. Rose sees the therapist as responsible for greater distress for both herself and her mother. This is a critical turning point in treatment, which illustrates the complexity of developmental trauma and raises questions as to whether the therapeutic relationship can be repaired. The therapist attempts to balance concerns of trust and safety in the context of Rose’s culture and the impact of developmental trauma across generations.
In this webinar, participants will see critical moments from three dramatized therapy sessions and hear from seasoned trauma therapists reflecting on their experiences working with clients of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Presenters will lead a thoughtful discussion exploring the intersections of developmental trauma, clinical work, and race. Webinar participants are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and will have the opportunity to ask questions to further the discussion.
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, participants explore the intersections of developmental trauma, clinical work and race/ethnicity. Webinar participants are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences in working across similar cultural backgrounds and will have the opportunity to share questions to further this important discussion.
In this webinar, Ann Masten addresses four aspects of resiliency. She defines resiliency and discusses why it is important to understand 'resilience', by highlighting research findings on resilience and showing how to adapt a resilience framework to practice.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
As a trauma informed caregiver, one of our many responsibilities is to partner with a variety of providers including pediatricians. Unless you have some medical training yourself, this is not an easy task! In this 30 minutes webinar however, Dr. Heather Forkey, MD, makes it a little easier to understand the “rhythm” of a pediatric appointment and offers suggestions for resource parents and pediatricians alike to see a variety of physical and behavioral symptoms children may exhibit through their “trauma lens”.
Category: Trauma-Informed Integrated Healthcare
In this webinar, Russel Jones focuses on the roles cultural sensitivity and race play in research on PTSD in children. The presenter discusses his research as it relates to Katrina and African Americans.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar, Juliet Vogel and Peter D'Amico discuss the origins and organization of the CATS Program following September 11. They share their experiences of working with evidence-based treatment in the real world and describe the experiences of clinicians who have worked with structured assessment and a manual. They also discuss engagement, psychoeducation, narrative therapy, relapse prevention and termination, as well as working with families.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Crossover youth—those involved simultaneously or successively in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems—represent a population with specific risks and unique needs for trauma-informed services. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the processes leading maltreated youth to become dually involved in the juvenile justice system and will describe the characteristics of crossover youth with a particular focus on those living in urban settings, including the highly disproportionate representation of ethnic minority youth and girls. Theories and research regarding the underlying developmental processes and trajectories that link childhood maltreatment to adolescent involvement in the juvenile justice system also will be presented. A clinical framework for trauma-informed services and trauma-specific therapeutic and rehabilitative services will then be described, including models for intervening at the levels of systems and institutions, as well as evidence-based approaches for treating traumatized families and individual youths.
In this webinar, David Foy defines spirituality. He discusses the distinction between spirituality and religion as well as the consequences trauma has on spirituality. He addresses the signs and symptoms of a moral injury and, in concluding, discusses the importance of self-care for mental health providers.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
Focuses on current challenges and recommendations for addressing the needs of young immigrant children, youth and families; highlighting the importance of community partnership, early childhood protections; addressing substance use and its effects, as well as faith-based supportive approaches. This webinar provides insights in to increased risk factors, including decreased access to financial, technological, social, educational and healthcare resources resulting in an increasing risk of infection, family separation and loss, trauma exposure and victimization.
This webinar will provide a brief overview of the definition and impact of traumatic separation. Speakers will discuss the importance of understanding traumatic separation when working with youth in the foster and kincare systems. Potential strategies to reduce the impact of traumatic separation for this population will be addressed. Participants will have an opportunity to share innovative products or processes being implemented in their communities.
Category: Childhood Traumatic Grief
In this webinar, Judy Cohen and Michael Scheeringa provide information necessary to assess and treat PTSD in preschool children, school-aged children, and youth following a disaster. The presenters discuss developmental issues and parental issues, assessment, and treatment.
Category: Terrorism, Disaster and Children
In this webinar, you will meet Penny and her adopted mother, Jan, who are in an emergency session with Dr. Ford. Penny was sent home from school for assaulting another child.
In this webinar, presenters provide an overview of the challenges and strengths these children often present as clients (and the benefits and challenges of working with them), types and causes of IDD, diagnostic and assessment issues, and practical suggestions for tailoring evidence-based treatments. The discussion also includes particular concerns about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on this population.
Since the Defending Childhood Initiative was launched in 2010, the DoJ has awarded grants around the country to develop strategic plans for comprehensive community-based efforts that will further demonstrate the goals of this initiative. This webinar will guide participants in understanding the DCI and its policy implications for the child trauma field. Presenters will discuss the history and current status of the DCI and highlight current and future practice and policy implications for those committed to addressing the needs of children and families exposed to trauma.
Category: Policy
In this webinar speakers focus on understanding the intersection between cyberbullying and trauma. This presentation was recorded in conjunction with National Bullying Awareness and Prevention Month.
Category: Schools and Trauma
The Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators was developed to provide school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system. The Toolkit is made up of 10 fact sheets that discuss various aspects of trauma in schools and how educators and parents can respond. This course includes a series of short presentations designed to accompany the Toolkit and provide additional information related to the topics in the fact sheets. Related resources, including webinars on the Learning Center, are also highlighted.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Does not offer any certificates or CEs.
Category: Service Systems
If you have participated in an RPC workshop and want a deeper understanding of the real life implications of being removed from one’s home and entering the foster care system or if you give workshops and would like a way to bring some of the concepts to life, we suggest watching this 30-minute webinar by Beth Barto, LMHC, CEO of LUK, Inc. Beth finds that showing Removed gives foster parents “a vivid picture of what it must be like" for children entering the foster care system. She says that the video facilitates “a much more emotional connection to the material in the curriculum by exposing [viewers] to experiences of foster children from a child's perspective.”
Category: Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Offers insights into the experiences of children and families facing forced displacement in the U.S., including the trauma associated with such circumstances; strategies for coping with unconfirmed death and loss within diverse forcibly displaced communities; and provides ways to use the NCTSN resource, Coping with Unconfirmed Death for Forcibly Displaced Children and Families: Tips for Caregivers.
In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, please join us for a very important webinar where presenters will be discussing both sexual assault that occurs within the context of ongoing relationships AND those that occur in a one-time interaction (e.g., at a party, among casual acquaintances, friends, etc. who are not in an ongoing intimate/romantic relationship). Presenters include a mother who will speak about her LGBTQ daughter’s experiences of sexual assault at school as well as their participation in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
Category: Child Sexual Abuse
Explores how young people respond to community violence and the lasting effects of marginalization and hate-based trauma. This webinar discusses creative strategies to help youth process these challenges and build resilience. It offers effective practices that support young people in overcoming these ongoing traumas.