Intentionally Simplifying All Facets of Family Life to Address Children’s trauma-related behavioral challenges

Claudia Mercier, LCSW, is passionate about addressing children’s behavioral challenges, particularly trauma-related behaviors, by intentionally simplifying all facets of family life. Her specialized training as a licensed clinical social worker is the treatment of depression.  This training is geared at foster, adoptive and kinship parents and caregivers to come away with concrete strategies and approaches.

Claudia and her husband have a large foster adopted family with seven children ranging from 2-24 years old.  They have fostered children for over 15 years while raising 5 children born into their family at the same time.  Approximately 3 years ago, Claudia launched The Foster Village, a ministry  in the East Bay that encourages people to foster and then wraps around and supports those families. The group started off with two families and now has 160 involved in the ministry!  Claudia also facilitates a bi-monthly support group for foster, adoptive and kinship parents virtually during the pandemic, which previously gathered in-person.

Please email judy@helponechild.org at least five days prior to the training if you would like a one to one virtual volunteer to help entertain your child(ren) during this parent only training session.

Need a certificate for RFA Renewal?  After attending a training or support group, please email judy@helponechild.org with date, time length and title of session you attended to request an emailed certificate.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.