You don’t have to be a therapist to provide therapeutic repair. This is the title of a workshop two New Zealand practitioners are delivering at a conference in June 2016. The Alterno Foundation is assisting them through our study assistance scheme. The aim of the presentation is to share their experience in delivering an innovative training program to foster parents, called “Fostering Security”.
This program aims to support caregivers who are caring for New Zealand’s most vulnerable and challenging children, to adopt strategies that are uniquely tailored to the child’s development stage and experienced trauma.
The conference is being organized by the ChildTrauma Academy, which is a not-for-profit organization in the United States and is working to improve the lives of high risk children through direct service, research and education. The Academy seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children. The conference will bring professionals together from across multiple disciplines, featuring innovations in research, clinical practice and education.
In addition to presenting their own work the two practitioners will attend workshops to explore and learn new practices that promote the wellness and stability for traumatized children. These specific learnings will then be disseminated via the Fostering Security program in New Zealand.
In assisting both practitioners the Alterno Foundation acknowledges their innovative approach towards rehabilitating traumatized children living in the supportive environment of their foster home. The Alterno Foundation in addition was also satisfied that the new learning would be passed on to the foster parents through the ‘Fostering Security’ program.
Website: http://childtrauma.org/nmt-model/
