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. Please use the link below to download a copy of the Participant’s Manual. It is designed to allow you to directly type notes into it and save them to your computer, or you can print it and take handwritten notes.
Updated Module #8 for the Caring For Children Who Have Experienced Trauma – A Workshop for Resource Parents
Training Materials
Resources
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) resources on Secondary Traumatic Stress includes fact sheets, articles, and self-care tips
Phone Apps and other websites with information on mindfulness
PTSD Coach App: 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?