Trauma Competent Caregiving
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Trauma Competent Care Overview
Every child that Back2Back serves has experienced trauma in one form
or another. Trauma can be defined as abuse, abandonment or neglect.
A traumatic event is an event that shatters one's sense of safety.
Trauma impacts a child's brain, body, belief system, behavior, and biology.
Trauma Competent Care teaches it's participants to understand the impact
of trauma and how they can be a part of helping children heal.
This 9 module or 9 lesson training series is a compilation of research
from a variety of sources around the globe. The Trauma Competent Care
curriculum was developed by David and Jayne Schooler who joined the
Back2Back Team in 2015. Back2Back offers the complete 3 day
Trauma Competent Care training to our staff and national partners.
In addition, local volunteers who serve with Back2Back receive a
condensed version of the training. Back2Back's mission trip
participants and interns are also given an introduction to Trauma
Competent Care principles during their stay with Back2Back.
Back2Back believes in sharing resources open-handedly and
has trained literally 1,000's of individuals from organizations and
ministries around the globe to help broaden their impact on orphans
and vulnerable children.
In this training, we teach the principle that children who have been hurt
through the context of relationship, can only heal through relationship.
And as Dr. Karyn Purvis says, "All children are capable of reaching
some level of healing." Therefore we all have a role to play and we invite
you to join us in the journey of becoming trauma competent.