Highlights the importance of understanding the serious consequences that trauma histories can have for birth parents and the subsequent potential impact on their parenting. This fact sheet is for child welfare workers.
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Focuses on addressing secondary traumatic stress experienced by child welfare staff, easing children’s transitions into foster care, and working with parents who have been impacted by trauma.
Describes child and adolescent trauma exposure and psychosocial functioning among NCTSN care recipients in residential care.
Outlines practice examples for continuity of care and collaboration across systems, a vital activity for youth involved in multiple service systems.
Details the importance of a holistic, multidisciplinary, multi-level approach to addressing the needs of youth with complex trauma in residential treatment settings.
Presents the results of a survey conducted among child welfare agencies in a number of states.
Discusses the many transitions experienced by, and the challenges transitions pose for, young traumatized children in the child welfare system.
Describes what comprehensive care for children in the child welfare system looks like.
Explores the rationale for and utility of screening and assessing for trauma in child welfare setting.
Discusses how child-serving systems can improve their response to the needs of youth that cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice.