Welcome to the newly released module, “Trauma, Stress and Caregiver Well-Being”. This is a highly interactive workshop that provides case examples, activities and discussions to engage the audience in reflection on this topic.
Trauma, Stress and Caregiver Well-Being
Training Materials
Download the Participants Manual
Resources
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
Resources on Secondary Traumatic Stress include fact sheets, articles, and self-care tips
Phone Apps and other websites with information on mindfulness
Developed by the Veteran’s Affairs National Center for PTSD and the Department of Defense's DHA Connected Health: The PTSD Coach app can help you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma. Features include tools for screening and tracking your symptoms, convenient, easy-to-use tools to help you handle stress symptoms, and direct links to support and help.
Resource Parent Self-Care and Secondary Traumatic Stress, article from 5/2015 in Fostering Perspectives:
Vicarious Trauma + Self Care for Foster Parents, blog article by Kindred + Co
Secondary Traumatic Stress Solutions and Innovation Center (STS-ISC): This is the Center that created the Trauma, Stress and Caregiver Well-Being Training. They have other supports and resources for STS as well.
Three-Minute Breathing handout with Diana Tikasz from Tend Academy
Feet on the Floor Video: A grounding technique with Diana Tikasz from Tend Academy
NCTSN fact sheets for Resource Parents
- Child Physical Abuse Fact Sheet
- Children and Domestic Violence for Parents Fact Sheet
- Coping in Hard Times: Fact Sheet for Parents
- Complex Trauma: Facts for Caregivers
- Caring for Kids: What Parents Need to Know about Sexual Abuse
- Childhood Traumatic Grief: Information for Parents and Caregivers
- Teen Sexual Assault: Information for Parents
- What is Childhood Trauma?
- What is Child traumatic stress?
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) resources on Secondary Traumatic Stress includes fact sheets, articles, and self-care tips.