NRCPFC: Digital Stories From The Field

Rhonda shares challenges and joys of adopting siblings. She helps us understand the supports and services that families need to promote children’s healthy development when they have experienced early childhood trauma.

Resources

Advancing Trauma-Informed Practices: Bringing trauma-informed, resilience-focused care to children, adolescents, families, schools and communities
This paper from The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC) aims to: 1) define the primary experience of trauma; 2) view trauma as a series of experiences resulting in survival driven behaviors, thoughts, emotions, sensations and needs unique to traumatized children; and 3) explain the importance of a trauma-informed context in understanding children’s experiences to guide the evaluation, identification, and initiation of appropriate interventions. By William Steele and Caelan Kuban. (2011)

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