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Happy New Year from the CARE Team! We welcome you to join us for no cost learning series starting in February!

New 4-Part Learning Collaborative:

Trauma-Responsive and Attachment-Focused Care

Overview:

The Trauma-Responsive Care Learning Collaborative is designed for behavioral health staff who provide services to children, adolescents, and their families who are involved with the child welfare or juvenile justice systems. As a result of your participation in this learning collaborative, providers will be able to:

• Identify behaviors, expressions, and relationship patterns in young people that are trauma induced and discover alternative and adaptive ways to understand and fulfill their unmet needs.
• Identify types of blocked care and strategies for managing avoidance and bias when working with families who have survived trauma.
• Describe the value of relational connection, peer support/lived experience, and relational repair when working with caregivers and families.
• Describe the benefits of trauma-responsive leadership and systems of care as related to youth, families, and care providers/care team members.
• Name three strategies for implementing attachment principles and commitments to trauma-informed care into personal practice.

Part 1: Wednesday, February 14

An Introduction to Trauma-Responsive and Attachment-Focused Care

10:00-11:30 a.m. PT

This session will review principles of attachment and commitments of trauma-informed care that are foundational to implementing trauma-responsive behavioral health interventions at the individual service level. Participants will learn about the ways that early attachment and relationship experiences shape a young person’s views of themselves, approaches to their relationships, and experiences in the world. Using this relational focus, participants will be introduced to new skills, tools, and language to reframe how the provider describes and conceptualizes a young person’s trauma and trauma-induced behavioral and relational expressions. These conceptual skills and tools will create the foundation for later sessions, which will focus on intervention strategies, integration of family and caregivers, and self- and systems-awareness. 

Part 2: Wednesday, February 28

Trauma-Responsive and Attachment-Focused Clinical Interventions

10:00-11:30 a.m. PT

This session will emphasize practical tools and skills for implementing clinical interventions that are rooted in attachment theory and trauma-responsive care. Through case examples, role play, and small group discussion, participants will have the opportunity to apply conceptual skills learned in the introductory session, including reframing “presenting challenges” as strategies that a young person has adapted to survive difficult circumstances and address unmet needs. Additionally, the session will provide opportunities for participants to learn and practice strategies for matching conceptualization to intervention, including how to help young people discover alternative and adaptive ways to understand and fulfill their unmet needs.

Part 3: Wednesday, March 13

Integrating Family and Caregivers in Trauma-Responsive and Attachment-Focused Care

10:00-11:30 a.m. PT

This session will equip providers with knowledge of the generational impacts of attachment and trauma for young people and families and will also invite providers to embrace the necessity of integrating families and caregivers into interventions with young people. Participants will be invited to reflect on and identify strategies for overcoming personal avoidance and systemic barriers to family and caregiver engagement, including the importance of attending to cultural considerations, integrating lived experience and peer support, and prioritizing relational connection and repair.

Part 4: Wednesday, March 27

Self and Systems-Awareness in Trauma-Responsive and Attachment-Focused Care

10:00- 11:30 a.m. PT

This session will equip participants with knowledge and skills to better understand the ways that providing care to youth and families who have experienced trauma can impact care providers and care systems. Providers will learn about vicarious trauma, including potential signs of vicarious trauma and strategies for managing the effects of vicarious trauma. Additionally, participants will be invited to reflect on the responsibility of providers to integrate attachment-focused and trauma-responsive principles and commitments into leadership and organizational practices in the service delivery system.

Meet the Presenter:

Kelsie Tatum Martinez, Psy.D. (she/her)

Dr. Tatum Martinez earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and education from Occidental College and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Baylor University. She has over 15 years of experience serving youth and families with experiences of complex, intergenerational trauma and significant unmet needs. She has delivered direct care and clinical services as well as provided clinical, training, and special projects leadership to programs serving young people in California’s public systems of care. After working in residential treatment programs for over a decade, Dr. Tatum Martinez joined the Catalyst Center as the Senior Clinical Advisor in 2021.

Learning Collaborative Office Hours

Office Hours 1

February 14 • 1:00-2:00 p.m. PT

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Office Hours will be hosted after each learning collaborative session and will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and seek clarification regarding covered topics. Additionally, attendees who are interested may utilize office hours as an opportunity to engage in case presentations to practice and apply skills they are learning during the collaborative sessions and/or seek case-specific consultation from the facilitator and their peers.