In order to prepare for Trauma & Resilience- What’s your Role, please review the following materials and video clips shown below prior to the training. This will allow us to jump right into a discussion with a shared understanding of some of the basics we will be discussing. The following steps are in order as needed.

 

1. First, please complete this ACES questionnaire (prior to watching the videos below). This is not something you have to turn in to us and your answers will remain private, other than what you wish to share during the program.

 Click to View the ACES Questionnaire

2. Watch this ACES Ted Talk video

 

 

3. Complete this resilience questionnaire after watching the ACES Ted Talk Video. Again, this is not something you have to turn in to us and your answers will remain private, other than what you wish to share during the program.

Click to View the Resilience Questionnaire

 

This second video is "Love is Never Wasted" (the third in a series of videos entitled “Removed”). Please jot down some notes while watching the video regarding the following questions so we can discuss your observations together as a group.

• What trauma occurred in the video?
  • For Kevi?
  • For his mom?
  • For the foster family?
• Identify any trauma-responsive behaviors you observed.
• What did the adults do to support Kevi in the midst of these trauma responses?

 

 

 

Children are forced to face things every day that are hard to imagine; the death of a loved one, incarceration of a caregiver, living with an addicted parent, enduring incest or sexual abuse by the hands of a family member, and the list can go on and on. Research on Aversive Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) have brought the concepts of trauma and resiliency into the forefront. The general idea of the research is the higher the number of ACE’s a child had, the more at risk they are.

 

 

When children are removed from their home or other unsafe environment and placed into Foster Care, they lose everything that is familiar to them. They  often come into care without any personal items. In 2015, The Blue Ribbon Project launched its Backpacks of Love Program to provide emergency essentials to children the moment they enter the foster care system. Our Backpacks of Love contain essential necessities for kids of all ages who are entering the system. Each backpack is designed to be gender and age specific. These backpacks include such things as a toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, children's soap/body wash, children's shampoo, changes of clothing for the child's age, personal clothing (underwear, socks, pajamas), and age appropriate books and toys.