1. By Konniesha Moulton, LMFT and Kelly Sachter, LCSW
Foster Healing: Trauma Treatment for Families and Staff in Child Welfare
By Konniesha Moulton, LMFT and Kelly Sachter, LCSW

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3. Trauma in Child Welfare
Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
90% of children in foster care have experienced trauma
Foster children are twice as likely as war veterans to develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
Complex trauma: exposure to multiple traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature, and the wide-ranging, long-term impact of this exposure. Could include child maltreatment, including psychological maltreatment, neglect, exposure to violence and physical and sexual abuse.

4. TRAUMA Sexual Abuse Natural Disasters Terrorism Physical Abuse
Bullying
Witnessing Domestic Violence
Death or loss of loved one
Sexual Abuse
Emotional Abuse
Community Violence
Abandonment or Neglect
Sudden violent loss of a loved one
Physical or Sexual assault
Serious Accident

5. Foster Healing
Provides services to improve children’s social, emotional and developmental functioning.
Provide caregivers with psycho-education on the effects of trauma and how to effectively nurture their children’s development.
Division of Child Protection and Permanency staff receive trauma informed training through the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit

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7. Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit
The Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit was developed by the National Child Trauma Stress Network
Teaches how trauma affects children in the child welfare system.
Goal is to provide trauma-informed child welfare practice to enhance the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families

8. Treatment in Foster Healing
Various modalities based on the needs of the client

9. ARC

10. Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Works on improving the relationship between children and their parents and changing parent child interaction patterns

11. Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART)
A comprehensive treatment approach that is organized to support arousal regulation in traumatized children by integrating:
Attachment Theory & Treatment
Sensory Integration
Sensory Motor Psychotherapy

12. TF-CBT
Working with the parent and child to identify coping skills, reduce negative behavioral responses to trauma and correct maladaptive beliefs and thoughts.
Psychoeducation and parenting skills
Relaxation
Affective Expression and Modulation
Cognitive Coping and Processing
Trauma narrative development and processing
In vivo mastery of trauma reminders
Conjoint child-parent sessions
Enhancing future safety and development

13. Goals and Accomplishments
Results thus far
Foster children to receive trauma informed treatment, improvements in trauma symptoms
Caregivers to receive trauma informed education/treatment
DCPP workers to complete the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit
59 children have received trauma informed treatment in Year 1 and 2; 75% of Foster Healing clients saw decreases in several trauma symptoms. Most of the clients had a decrease in 5 scales or more on the TSC.
50 parents have participated in trauma informed education/treatment
252 DCPP workers have completed the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit and showed improvements in identifying how trauma affects their work

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