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Family and Community Engagement in Addressing Childhood Trauma

March 22, 2017

Agenda

•Why family engagement is important to responding to toxic

stress

•How to build partnerships

•How to engage parents and the impact of parent leaderships

•Q&A

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Moderate and brief. When a young child is protected by supportive relationships with adults, she learns to cope with everyday challenges and her stress response returns to baseline. Example: sports

Positive Stress

When strong, frequent or prolonged adverse experiences such as extreme poverty or repeated abuse are experienced without adult support, stress can be said to be “toxic.”

Occurs when more serious difficulties, such as the loss of a loved one, a natural disaster, or frightening injury, are buffered by caring adults. Example: death of a relative

Tolerable Stress

Toxic Stress

While some stress is normal and can have a positive effect, severe chronic stress is “toxic”

Learn more: Center on the Developing Childhttp://developingchild.harvard.edu/

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Point out the critical role of a caring and supportive adult in difference between tolerable and toxic stress Parents need support in that role for prevention of toxic stress as well as for supporting kids who have already experienced trauma

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/

Trauma and Toxic Stress: Shifting the Conversation

There is a growing understanding that trauma and toxic stress are widespread with far-reaching impacts

It’s equally important to:

tackle root causes of toxic stress

help parents and caregivers buffer their children from toxic stress responses

build protective factors in families and communities

Trauma also manifests at the community level

It needs to be about more than understanding and intervening

Community-level strategies are needed to support families, reduce and address adversity, and promote healing

http://www.cssp.org/reform/early-childhood/body/working-toward-well-being-

community-approaches-to-toxic-stress-print.pdf

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Start time: 00 Running time: Nilofer: I know that CSSP just put out a brief on Toxic Stress—can you talk with me a little bit about what you learned in this brief? Cailin: Nilofer:

http://www.cssp.org/reform/early-childhood/body/working-toward-well-being-community-approaches-to-toxic-stress-print.pdf

Working Toward Well-Being: A Framework of Community Approaches to Toxic Stress

• Parents and caregivers• Service Providers• Multisystem, community

partners and policymakers

Parents and caregivers organize to: Develop strategies to prevent and

respond to stressors in their families and communities

Learn, develop and share strategies to respond to the impact of toxic stress in their children and families

Develop leadership skills and partner with program, system and community leaders

Strengthening Families: Five protective factors we can help families build

Parental Resilience

Social Connections

Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development

Concrete Support in Times of Need

Social and Emotional Competence of Children

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We can support parents in building each of these protective factors through our everyday interactions For parents who are raising children who’ve experienced trauma, they may need additional support in each of these protective factors Slides and materials about this available at www.cssp.org or www.strengtheningfamilies.net

Many resources available at www.strengtheningfamilies.net

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Download action sheets at: http://www.cssp.org/reform/strengtheningfamilies/about/body/ProtectiveFactorsActionSheets.pdf

http://www.strengtheningfamilies.net/

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENT UNIVERSITY

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BPS Parent University Theory of Change

If we provide all BPS parents with the knowledge and experiences that build their capacity to advocate and support not only their child’s learning but their own personal learning, then parents will become more engaged and intentional in demanding and supporting quality education for their children that will result in improved student outcomes and whole school improvement.

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BPS Parent University Overview

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BPS Parent U and MJE Partnership

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Mother’s for Justice and Equality

Mission

The mission of MJE is to end neighborhood

violence by empowering mothers and youth to

challenge the normalization of violence and

become effective catalysts for change in their

homes, schools, and communities. By

reclaiming the identity of our communities we

restore a sense of hope and purpose for

children, youth, and adults.

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Problem• Communities with high levels of violence are often located

in urban areas of larger or mid-size cities• Higher levels of unemployment, incarceration rates and

poverty than surrounding areas• Low high school graduation rates and low student

academic performance• The vast majority of Boston homicides occur in the

Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods.

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Our Approach

EngagementEducation

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“We believe empowered and engaged mothers and youth, working together with civic leaders and law enforcement, are key to ending neighborhood violence”.

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ApproachEducation and Engagement: Adult programs are designed to help victims recover from trauma and become advocate for change in the communities where their families live and work

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Women

You Matter Leadership

Training

Vision and Personal

Action Plan

Peer- to-Peer

Workforce Readiness Program

Continuing Education-Employme

nt-Peer Leaders

Impact• 200 individuals have completed the You Matter Training both at MJE and at

new community-based locations such as libraries, local schools, and other sites.

• 100% of participants gained understanding about the impact of trauma and violence on their lives and in the community

• 100% of participants increased their ability to educate and advocate for change in the community and through public processes

• 100% of women participate in workforce readiness initiatives following their You Matter training

• 85% of participants have obtained sustainable employment within 12 months of program completion

• 100% of the house of correction inmates will successfully develop a financial plan before re-entering the community

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Impact• 250 youth served since the program began in 2013.• 100% of graduating seniors during the past three years have gone to college

prepared to succeed. • 100% of students progressing to next grade on schedule in 2016.• 100% of youth will increase their ability to educate and advocate for change in the

community and through public processes.• 85% of youth become involved in Civic Engagement efforts with MJE in their

communities.• 100% learn self-awareness and leadership skills that promote personal development

and meaningful decision-making.• 100% of youth engage with positive, ongoing, caring adult mentors from MJE’s You

Matter program participants and Alumnae Network as well as college-age mentors.• 85% of youth stay actively engaged with MJE through high school.

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Our Mission

The National Parent Leadership Institute (NPLI)

exists to coordinate and increase the civic skills and

impact of diverse parents to improve child and

community outcomes as they build caring

communities.

Parents Who Care Can Become Parents Who Lead!

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The National Parent Leadership Institute (NPLI) exists to coordinate and increase the civic skills and impact of diverse parents to improve child and community outcomes as they build caring communities.

Our Journey

NPLI began as the national replication arm of the Connecticut Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) designed by the Commission on Children in 1992. PLTI facilitates parents, who wish to improve the lifelong health, safety and learning of children, how to become

practiced change agents for the next generation. Parents Who Care Can Become Parents Who Lead!

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NPLI works with agencies, community organizations, local/state governments and other systems and trains parents, agency leaders and community leaders (as well as children through a two-generational strategy) to view parents as valuable leaders and assets working to build caring communities.

What We Do

We are developing the field of parent leadership by

embracing a cross-race, cross-class, parent-informed

and pro-social learning approach to building parents

as a constituency for community and recognizing

children as the beneficiaries.


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We are developing the field of parent leadership by embracing a cross-race, cross-class, parent-informed and pro-social learning approach to building parents as a constituency for community and recognizing children as the beneficiaries.

Our Partners

NPLI works with agencies, community organizations,

local/state governments and other systems and

trains parents, agency and community leaders to

view parents as valuable leaders and assets working

to build caring communities.


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NPLI works with agencies, community organizations, local/state governments and other systems and trains parents, agency leaders and community leaders (as well as children through a two-generational strategy) to view parents as valuable leaders and assets working to build caring communities.

Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI)Our Core Work with Parents Who Care Becoming Parents Who Lead Across the Nation

• California• Colorado• Connecticut*• Florida• Hawaii• Louisiana• Maine• Massachusetts• Michigan• New York• Rhode Island• Virginia• Washington• Wind River Nation• Wyoming

Parents Who Care Do Become Parents Who Lead!

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California Colorado Connecticut* Florida Hawaii Louisiana Massachusetts New York Rhode Island Virginia Washington Wind River Nation Wyoming

Lead Parent ProgramsAdvocacy ~ Bonding ~ Connection

Helping Parents Who Care to become Parents Who Lead

Because of PLTI, a Parent Leader Can…

By

Maureen O’Neill – DavisCT Parent Leader

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Introduce myself: Good afternoon. I’m Maureen O’Neill – Davis. I’m going to talk about how PLTI opened doors for me to become a parent who leads,. I lead through advocacy, through the bonding of parents and ideas. and through connecting parents and system to inform change around addressing childhood trauma.

Who I am and Why I’m a PLTI Parent LeaderAround Childhood Trauma

Married mom of 3 amazing, adopted children: son 12, daughters 12 & 14

My daughters (formerly my nieces) witnessed life-altering trauma (domestic violence death of their mom) when they were 13-months & 3-years

My youngest was profoundly affected – her most debilitating diagnoses: PTSD, RAD

I researched RAD & traumatic stress and its potential impact across the lifespan

I engaged early therapeutic interventions, for her and our family as a whole

At 6 years old her manageable behaviors became unmanageable; our home became chaotic, unpredictable and unsafe

Our family was in crisis as her RAD and toxic traumatic stress raged

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Who am I and why am I a Parent Leader? Well, I’m a married mom of three active, talented kids. Our life together, as a family, began in south FL. In 2005, when our son was 9-months old, my husband’s sister was murdered via domestic violence. Our nieces witnessed the event. They were also exposed to other trauma causing factors. Both presented with PTSD and Complex Trauma behaviors. It took years, but older daughter responded well to therapy. But our younger daughter’s symptoms were illogical and hard to manage. Her Reactive Attachment and Post Traumatic Stress disorder symptoms were puzzling. They were further compounded by an initial placement with her grandmother, and intensified when she came to us at age 2 ½ . By the age of 6, her symptoms and behaviors became less manageable. Our home became chaotic, unpredictable and periodically dangerous. Our family was in crisis as her RAD and toxic stress raged.

The Faces of Trauma: ‘Fight ~ Flight ~ Freeze’

Sadness: Withdrawn Fierce; too cool for connection; blames others; no responsibility, suicidal

Scared: ReactionaryAlarmed; reactions don’t match situation; aggressive; rigid; lying

Shame: DefiantAngry; disgusted by everything; resentful; lacks self worth or value

Her trauma/attachment disruption history gave way to unstable emotions Visceral memories inform her behaviors despite the absence of a threat She lacks an inner sense of safety Behaviors became overwhelming, complicated and hopeless for our family

PLTI Parent Leadership: Addressing Childhood Trauma

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The faces and behaviors of trauma. My daughter’s fight, flight, freeze centered behaviors can be exhausting. She is pictured here illustrating typical faces, which coincide with aggressive or anti-social behaviors. Her faces and behaviors were, and continue to be, challenging, for us and for her. She’s been suicidal for years as she want’s to be with her deceased mother. She exists in a state of disgust and hyper-reaction, and she sees herself as worthless or as ‘the victim’. The Disney-Pixar film ‘Inside Out’ did an amazing job of animating a child’s emotional crisis stemming from trauma. Like the little girl in the movie, my daughter lost Joy. Her chronic stress, which stems from agonizing sadness, visceral fear and immense shame, informs who she is, how she thinks, and how she acts and interacts with others. Her instinct to protect herself can, at times, put members of our family at risk through her actions and the tales she tells. We’ve engaged outpatient and in-home therapeutic services and therapies for years. Benefit has been minimal and short lived.

Causes of Childhood Trauma• Loss of biological connection (adoption)

• Loss of parent through deployment, child protection removals, divorce or death

• Extended infant/toddler hospitalization

• Community or environmental violence

• Abuse/neglect

• Parent defect

• Poverty

• War

• Not having ones needs consistently met as an infant/toddler

Touching Trauma at its Heartwww.AttachTrauma.org

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Causes of childhood trauma include more than abuse and neglect. Other experiences such as the loss of a parent thru adoption, divorce or death or prolonged infant/toddler hospitalizations can also cause trauma. Not having ones needs met during early brain development can lead to lifelong impairments. Cleveland Clinic research suggests that adverse childhood experiences can lead to brain function abnormalities similar to that caused by physical head trauma; and data indicates as many at 74% of adult inmates in US prisons today spent time in foster care or were adopted. From the time the girls came to us, I researched. I was on a mission - to understand my daughter’s behaviors and her emotional & developmental delays, and engage services to inform healing and keep everyone safe. I wanted to get her the help she needed early, when I thought it would do the most good. Not having her needs consistently met as an infant was the least of her trauma.

http://www.attachtrauma.org/

CT System Response to Parents Raising Traumatized Children w/Specialized Needs• Connecticut is 1 of only 5 states that administers its Children’s Behavioral

Health system through its child protection services agency.

• Adoptive parent experience: Child protection guided response often presumes that the ‘forever family’ is a “trauma” cause

• The current family environment is “blamed”

• Opportunities to support the child and family through school and community services are lost in favor of physical protection.

• Biological parent experience: Children with environmental and organic brain disorders, and those with I/DD with co-occurring trauma/mental illness

• Are also blamed

• Are viewed as inadequate, unable to meet the child’s specialized needs

• When parents are viewed as a cause, they’re role as advocate and as a parent partner in service delivery is lost - therapeutic healing is compromised

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CT is 1 of 5 states that administers its Children’s Behavioral Health system under the umbrella of its child protection agency. This fact has proven detrimental for many families, including mine. Directed to its Voluntary Services program to access higher level, often out-of-home psychiatric treatment, most parents are instructed and lead to believe they should give of their impair child to the state. When parent’s choose not too, many find themselves subject to child protection cases with custody transfer occurs through court order. Both voluntary and involuntary custody transfer of a traumatized child compounds attachment disruption and trauma-rooted conditions, erodes built trust and severs delicate connections. Neither adoptive ‘forever families’ nor biological parents are spared, including those with intellectual/development disabilities with co-occurring trauma histories. When parents are viewed as a cause, they lose their ability to effectively advocate for their child. Family integrity is lost.

Purpose • When CT’s systems of care, education and child protection failed my family• We were not heard or viewed as knowledgeable• System change required

Navigating systems were long on blame and short on benefit• Ill prepared systems harmed my family, wasted resources and delayed access to care• My character, my family’s integrity and our daughter’s future were threatened• Moved to activism

Confidence & Coalition Building• Strong parent voice around childhood (complex & developmental) trauma and child

mental health care system delivery in Connecticut was missing at system tables• Parent leadership coupled with collective community voice was unorganized• A roadmap to reform

PLTI Guides Purpose

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PLTI Guides purpose: Our family lost our severely traumatized daughter to the child protection system for 2-years, at a time when specialized, condition proficient treatment modalities could have done her the most good. During that time, I found PLTI. The PLTI model restored me. Navigating systems was complicated, filled with barriers to care, parent blame and generic intervention models; Ill prepared to provide aid or value. This reality moved me to activism. With PLTI, I found purpose, wisdom and hope. I retooled my skills, focus and energy to become more than I was. The instruction showed me how to regain my critical thinking skills, rise above my anguish and despair, and explore cultural differences to form a plan. I knew I had to leverage my personal experience to benefit others. I knew what was happening to our family was knowledge. PLTI gave me the confidence and reinforced my coalition building skills. And through the Community Project tasks, I crafted a advocacy roadmap I use today in my work.

A PLTI Parent Leader is:

The glue within the family system

• Family members and the identified traumatized child rely on the parent(s) to guide and keep all informed & safe

• Parents provide the ‘boots on the ground’ view

The missing link within the circle of child serving systems

• Educational systems

• Children’s Behavioral Health system

• Insurance systems

• Child Welfare system

• Family Court system

• Juvenile Justice system

The critical resource to legislative systems

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I am grateful to PLTI as the program helped me to re-imagine myself as the glue within my family system, again. I was then able to apply PLTI techniques to a larger structure of systems for my family and others. The education, Children’s behavioral Health and Child Welfare system on the prevention and early intervention side and Family Court and Juvenile Justice systems on the penalty side. I used my experiences to inform and engage others. I’ve become a cohesive linkage for parents; and as I network through various stakeholder environments, my mission has become more clear: Parent voice around childhood trauma was missing and, at government system tables where parent engagement is required, it’s just a check box. I concluded that real value will only occur through credible, organized parent voice in strategic locals throughout systems from education to insurance, and from child welfare to the legislative system.

Because of PLTIA Parent Leader can… Redefine parent engagement in community

PLTI gave me the tools to:

• Expand parent-to-parent connectivity (expand actionable base)

• Reframe conversations across beliefs/cultures

• Employ ‘I’ over ‘E’ – intelligence over emotion

• Inform system change through collaborative engagement

• Effectively lobby lawmakers (educate & inform)

• Lead public policy reform (partner to champion legislation)

A PLTI Parent Leader will:

• Run for public office

• Lead the free world

• Forge global solutions

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Because of PLTI: I am a Parent Leader leading a parent community through mentoring and by motivating those with common experience to find their voice. I bring together advocates, parents and attorneys who represent families harmed by current CT DCF informed practices that claim to “aid” families raising children with brain disorders and brain development-altering trauma histories. I reach out to condition proficient providers to compel them to lend their voice to our change movement. Through federal funding required community & consumer engagement, I inform others at system tables and I lobby lawmakers to raise corrective legislation. I apply intelligence in my delivery of information while tempering my emotional self. I am a change agent. PLTI Parent Leaders like me can inform change at any level.

• One parent’s voice can be a powerful tool• Parents are professionals within their own vocational fields, possessing valuable skill sets• The skills parents bring to the table provide alternative perspective, but they must be heard• Credibility of voice comes through training and numbers• Learning to place greater emphasis on INTELLEGENCE rather than EMOTION is invaluable

• Collective voice is powerful, more credible and inclusive

• Connecting parent strengths can change systems, cultures & outcome

Because of PLTIA Parent Leader leads

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Because of PLTI, my one voice and my strengths, coupled with the diverse and valuable skills of others, is powerful. That’s leadership. Parent voices are informing systems engaged in addressing childhood trauma right now because of PLTI. We’re informing systems growth, new payment methods and the collection of data. We’re bringing parents out of the shadows, exposing questionable child protection practices, behavioral health care delivery chains and changing laws. This is collective parent voice at work.

PLTI 2014 Community ProjectRoadmap to Reform Refined mission thru critical planning

Provided formal recommendations to PA 13-178/Plan 4 Children development

Forged strategic stakeholder alliances across systems at state and national levels

Secured appointments to CBH advisory & oversight councils, committees & panels

Maximized social & traditional media platforms

Fine tune messaging

PLTI brought it all together.

CT Health Investigative Teamwww.C-Hit.org

Article: ‘Desperate Choices…’Article: ‘DCF Routinely Takes

Custody of Kids…’

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So, how did I get started and how did PLTI point me in the advocacy direction? It all began with a Community Project. The cover of that project is pictured here. My 2014 project entitled ‘Child Heal 2 Thrive’ became my roadmap to addressing CT’s broken Children’s Behavioral Health delivery system of care. It was complex trauma and post-adoption specific. In it, I set forth a 3-phase framework to change the system that harmed my family and robbed us of access opportunities to recommended higher level treatment. And I networked. Now, I inform on this topic from both top down and bottom up scenarios; and together with my advocacy team, we explore vehicles to increase awareness, educate the public and inform lawmakers, all to trigger reaction and change outcomes. See C-Hit.org website for recent investigative stories about my advocacy group and our efforts. PLTI brought it all together

http://www.c-hit.org/

http://c-hit.org/2016/10/08/desperate-choices-giving-up-custody-for-care/

http://c-hit.org/2016/10/28/dcf-routinely-takes-custody-of-kids-with-specialized-needs-data-show/

Organizations Affiliation and Legislation Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc. (www.AttachTrauma.org)

Family Forward Project / Family Forward Foundation (Facebook@FamilyForwardProject)

Family Forward Advocacy CT (Facebook@FamilyForwardProjectCT)

• Grassroots advocacy group leading state level ‘Custody for Care’ public policy reform

• Advocates, family matters defense attorneys, parents and trauma model proficient providers

• A statewide, nationally aligned, movement to improve child behavioral health systems where they intersect with the child welfare industry and child protection services policies

Custody for Care – Custody Relinquishment Prevention Legislation

• CT HB 6297 – An Act Concerning Voluntary Admission to the Department of Children and Families (Voluntary Placement in the Custody of DCF)

• Partnered with Child Advocate, Chief Public Defender & family advocacy organizations

• Media coverage - four investigative articles, NPR Radio, local ABC affiliate news

• Mobilized base to testify at a February 7th, 2017 Public Hearing

• Unanimously voted out of Committee as a task force on March 9th, 2017

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In my volunteer role as a legislative advocate with the Attachment & Trauma Network, I further ATN’s mission to promote healing of families through support, education and advocacy. ATN is a member driven organizations supporting families raising children with attachment disruption and complex trauma conditions. Find ATN at www.AttachTrauma.org. In my role as an advocate and organizer for our Family Forward entities, I wear many hats. Right now in CT, Family Forward Advocacy CT is pushing Custody for Care reform legislation. This legislation is focused on eliminating voluntary (encouraged; coerced) and involuntary (court orders; child protection centered) custody transfer of children with specialized needs and trauma histories, to the DCF as a means to access intensive child psychiatric care/treatment. With custody transfer goes decision-making authority over the child and trust inroads are lost. On March 9th, our Bill, HB 6297 – AAC Voluntary Admission to DCF was unanimously voted out of Committee as a task force. We support this revised language. The next step is to secure lawmaker sponsorship of the Bill. It will then move on to the House floor for a vote.

PLTI Parent LeadersParents who Care becoming Parents who Lead

and so much more.

Action Builds Change

Family First Prevention

Services Act 2016

Maureen O’Neill – DavisCT Parent LeaderCT Legislative Advocate; Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.Founding Member; Family Forward FoundationAdvocacy & Communications; Family Forward Advocacy CTCell: [email protected]@attachtrauma.org

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So, PLTI training is my foundation. I’m addressing childhood trauma through informing systems change. I’m a parent who cared and now I lead. PLTI is a spring board that gives parents who care the courage to take on big projects and to lead civic engagement. I’m pictured here, with fellow PLTI alumni and CT lawmaker, Rep. Cathy Abercrombie, receiving my PLTI certification. The second picture is of me and my daughter on what was a really good day. And I’m pictured with a group a mom and grandma warriors supporting foster care finance reform in Washington DC in February of 2016. Myself and another CT attorney advocate joined follow advocates from across the country in support of the Family First Prevention Services Act. It was to be the first federal legislation in 20-years to take on foster care finance reform. This is important as the ASFA ‘97 created unintended consequences which informs child welfare system response around families raising kids with higher level specialized needs. I’ve also included affiliated organization insignia. Thank you

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Q&A

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So, taking action others can’t, through the use of informed mindfulness, and applying PLTI tools as building blocks. The result: Change that improves the lives of individuals and outcomes, communities and society. That’s what I’m doing around addressing childhood trauma and I o

Resources•Family and Community Engagement Conference – Engaging Families:

Transformational Movements, Sustainable Practices | June 22-24, 2017 | San Francisco, CA

•Trauma Informed Care Twitter Chat – April 2017 | #CSchats

•Addressing Trauma in Community Schools Webinar

•Working Toward Well-Being: Community Approaches to Toxic Stress

•Strengthening Families: Protective factors research briefs and action sheets

http://www.cvent.com/events/engaging-families-transformational-moments-sustainable-practices/event-summary-5e983dec3c5e419cabb65ceb30e41ba7.aspx

https://concerted.adobeconnect.com/p6cou83t5cv/

http://www.cssp.org/reform/early-childhood/body/working-toward-well-being-community-approaches-to-toxic-stress-print.pdf

http://www.cssp.org/reform/strengtheningfamilies/about/body/ProtectiveFactorsActionSheets.pdf

Resources •Trauma and Brain Development: A protective factors approach: Slides and

script

•Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.

•Family Forward Project | Connecticut Group

•CT Health News: Desperate Choices: Giving Up Custody For Care

•CT HB 6297: AAC Voluntary Admission to DCF

http://www.cssp.org/young-children-their-families/strengtheningfamilies/practice/body/TraumaBrain-DevelopmentProtectiveFactors-1.pptx

http://www.attachtrauma.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1697223540511940/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/587773308053218/

http://c-hit.org/2016/10/08/desperate-choices-giving-up-custody-for-care/

https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB06297&which_year=2017

Contact Information•Cailin O’Connor ([email protected])– Senior Associate, Center for the Study

of Social Policy

•Cyntoria Grant ([email protected]) – Parent University Director, Boston Public Schools

•MonaLisa Smith ([email protected])– President and CEO,Mother's for Justice and Equality

•Donna Thompson-Bennett ([email protected]) – Co-Director, National Parent Leadership Institute

•Maureen O’Neill Davis ([email protected]) – Parent Leadership Training Institute Graduate (CT Parent Leader)






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