This article helps educators learn how to build empathy among their school communities by focusing on strategies and steps that you can take to build real empathy in your students and community.
Self-care is a cornerstone of success for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, thing on which all other successes depend. For this reason, this issue of Fostering Perspectives shares insight and reflections from foster parents and others and points you to self-care ideas and resources.
This article and questionnaire is designed to help you reflect on your experiences, identify your strengths, your support system and give you practical insight into how to aid your behaviorally challenged child/youth.
Foster families, this is a worksheet for you to plan out what you would do under extremely trying circumstances, even though this may be rare. It is important to develop a framework using your before you are faced with a crisis or feel overwhelmed.
This assessment helps you identify the activities that you would like to add to your self-care practice in each self-care domain.
This assessment will help you highlight the things you are already doing for yourself and assist you in evaluating areas where there might be an imbalance in how you practice self-care.
This assessment helps you identify what you do now (either well or poorly) to manage the stress in your life.
ACEs are potentially traumatic events that can have a lasting impact on youth and adults. This simplified calculator will help you determine what your ACE score is.
Dr. Austin, one of CTR’s clinicians, provides some practical strategies framed around the SAFE MODEL that will aid adults in connecting with their child in a healthy way.
Ongoing adversity in childhood leads to a chronic state of “fight, flight or freeze.” Researchers at Yale had recently shown that when inflammatory stress hormones flood a child’s body and brain, they alter the genes that oversee our stress reactivity, re-setting the stress response to “high” for life.