December 2021

Family is an important part of nearly everyone’s life. For most, your family members are the people that support you, provide safety, shelter, and food, and they are also the ones who make you feel loved. Now consider how significant a family is for a child from foster care who has most likely dealt with... Read More

The trauma that occurred within a child’s first few months or even in utero can have a lasting impact on their development.  While in some developmental realms there may not be any delays recognized, other areas may be impacted tremendously.  It is essential that foster, kinship and adoptive parents learn how to recognize how children... Read More

I’m going to focus on a concept possibly unfamiliar but worth your attention. Dosing is a word used by Dr. Bruce Perry of the Neurosequential Model to describe the role a caregiver has in controlling how much stress children with chronic trauma histories can successfully handle. Stress is part of life: I need gas but... Read More