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Webinars

Trauma informed care

Caring after trauma

This webinar introduces the key concepts of trauma, and how kids may respond to traumatic experiences and developmental trauma. You’ll learn about specific parenting approaches to support kids who have experienced trauma, including understanding a their trauma story; advocating on their behalf; and working with others to provide effective support. This webinar also discusses specific strategies to reduce trauma responses, recognise signs of stress and look after yourself.


Trauma informed positive parenting

What is trauma-informed positive parenting? This webinar introduces the importance of connection, alongside specific positive parenting strategies including predictability, consistency and positive reinforcement. It also introduces techniques to help you build positive behaviours, and increase emotional regulation in kids.


Child support teams

Child support teams

In this webinar, you’ll learn how carers and professionals can work together to help kids heal from trauma. You will explore how to create a child support team and identify suitable members. This webinar also introduces detective tools to help you assess and respond to trauma based behaviours, and working with your child support team to gain correct medical diagnoses and supports.


Healing from Trauma webinars

Webinar 1 - The impact of trauma

In Webinar 1, you’ll learn about the impact of trauma on the brain and explore the concept of trauma triggers.


Webinar 2 – Being a trauma detective

In Webinar 2, you’ll learn more about trauma responses and being a detective to discover trauma triggers. We’ll introduce tools to help identify these triggers, and show you how to develop interventions that prevent re-experiencing episodes.

 

Webinar 3 – Strategies to address trauma

In Webinar 3, we’ll look at strategies including predictability and consistency to create a nurturing environment for kids who have experienced trauma. We’ll identify emotion regulation strategies for the four stages of trauma based behaviour, and learn skills in responding to emotional and behavioural challenges.

 

Webinar 4 - Signals of safety when responding to trauma

In Webinar 4, you will explore the importance of connection and coregulation for kids who have experienced trauma. You’ll also learn about creating signals of safety to help kids feel cared for and begin to heal.
Last updated:

17 Jan 2024