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Education and support are vital components for strengthening adoptive, foster, and kinship families’ health. We are glad you are seeking to learn! May these resources strengthen your whole family on your parenting journey!
Help One Child’s Education Program focuses on three areas.
- Adoption/Foster Care/Kinship Care
- Trauma
- Attachment
Short Videos on Trauma, Attachment, and/or Adoption / Foster / Kinship Parenting:
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Nervous System Regulation or Relationship?
We often hear about how our nervous systems can trigger responses such as “fight or flight” when we sense stress or danger — read on for strategies to develop a healthy relationship with our nervous systems to parent more effectively and model regulation for our children.
Latest Podcast
Felt Safety and Connection Strategies with Our Children from Hard Places
Listen as our expert guest, Erin Bouchard, of Trauma-Based Parenting, shares about felt safety and practical connection strategies to help a child feel and believe they are safe in your home. Expert Guest Bio: Erin Bouchard. Author. Speaker. Advocate. Educator. Erin founded Trauma-Based Parenting because she’s passionate about helping foster and adoptive parents understand early…
Trauma Informed Parenting Resources
Browse the collection of educational materials provided in video, article, blog, podcast, etc. formats with emphasis on attachment, skills needed to create healing environments for children who had experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and more specifically those who are in care outside their family of origin.
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Youth impacted by foster care, exposed to early childhood trauma and disrupted attachment often statistically deal with other challenges at a higher rate, so please reach out to our FAMILY SERVICES DIRECTOR if you are in need of referrals for additional services, resources or support in a specific area.
This resource list focuses on trauma, attachment and foster/adoptive/kinship family lens, but if you are in need of more specialized resources for mental illness, developmental differences, medical complexities, learning needs, special education, addiction, juvenile justice, homelessness, out of home placement, etc.
Help One Child is a faith-based, non-profit organization serving families of at-risk youth impacted by foster care or adoption. We serve ANY family in these demographics without regard to race, creed, religious preference, etc. Help One Child does not screen for or endorse opinions of speakers, educational materials, blog articles, podcast interviews, support group curriculum or resources and referrals. Inclusion of resources does not equal an endorsement of another organization, individual or content.
