Mitigating
Trauma: Removal and Placement
Sources and Resources
Supportive videos about being in foster care for children
Videos for children about foster care:https://sesameworkshop.org/topics/foster-care/
Video song about safety
https://sesameworkshop.org/resources/a-place-for-you-2/
Learning How to Count, Breathe, Relax
More about Traumatic Separation
Family separation impacts the whole family but is especially difficult for children who have to leave their homes, routines, friends and oftentimes even their schools to live with foster parents. They are surrounded by feelings of grief and loss as they cope with the loss of parents, pets, toys and activities...everything familiar to them
About Fostering- Downloadable workbook for children
Tips for talking to children about abuse
Managing placement transitions: Questions and Answers
Touchpoints: Preparing Children for Transitions
Family visitation in child welfare
Reducing the Trauma of Investigation, Removal, & Initial Out-of-Home Placement in child Abuse Cases
Children and Trauma: Strategies for Supporting
First Impressions: Exposure to Violence and a Child's Developing Brain
Explaining the Brain to Children and Adolescents
Trauma-informed knowledge and practice hub