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UofC Podcast: Approaches for Working with Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

 May 16, 2024

Listen to UCalgary FSW professor Dr. Angelique Jenney and PhD candidate and sessional instructor Olivia Cullen

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A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Perry About Trauma

 May 16, 2024

In this podcast from Creating a Family, Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families.

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Engaging Caregivers of Teens to Prevent Teen Dating Violence (Shift)

 May 13, 2024

Over the past three years Shift has focused on engaging parents/primary caregivers as a primary prevention strategy to prevent teen dating violence.

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Video Overview InBrief: The Science of Neglect (Harvard University)

 May 10, 2024

This edition of the InBrief series explains why significant deprivation is so harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation.

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Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Trauma-Informed Training

 May 3, 2024

Hull Services provides training/education in trauma-informed practice for frontline staff, caregivers, schools, agencies, and community partners. It is an approach that integrates core principles of neurodevelopment and traumatology to inform work with children, families and the communities in which they live.

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Trauma-Informed Care Toolkit for Homelessness Youth Service Providers

 May 1, 2024

Trauma-informed programs can help mitigate adverse outcomes for youth and young adults. All systems that serve youth who have experienced homelessness must understand the basic principles of trauma to serve youth appropriately.

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FREE Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Downloadable Lessons & Activities

 April 10, 2024

These lessons, designed by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection are for use with students in kindergarten to Grade 8.

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Caring for Kids New to Canada – A mindful approach: Assessing child maltreatment

 April 10, 2024

A guide for health professionals working with immigrant and refugee children and youth

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Trauma-Informed Care Measurement Toolkit: An Evaluation of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care 2023

 July 4, 2023

Findings suggest that measuring TIC attitudes and beliefs may vary according to field of practice and ethno-racially diverse workers.

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