Understanding Trauma Responses and Helping Children Who Have Been Abused Heal and Heart & Helping Hand Award Presentation
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In this session we will discuss how early abuse and adversities both known and unknown can impact children and their early childhood brain development. This session will educate participants on how to support children and their families as they navigate the effects of abuse, trauma and the attachment difficulties that can arise. Evidence- based models inform the therapeutic caregiving framework that will be discussed with overall goals to increase understanding; to build and strengthen skills; and to grow emotional resilience while creating healthy attachments. Tools of ongoing support will be shared along with a discussion of the importance of community care for caregivers of children with trauma impacts and attachment challenges.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe how early adversities produce trauma and the impact that has on early childhood brain development.
- Participants will be able to articulate why building healthy attachment is important and give examples of everyday interactions that build more secure attachment.
- Participants will be able to identify therapeutic caregiving tenets.
- Participants will be able to apply tools of ongoing support and will be empowered to access self-care needed for caregivers of children with trauma impacts and attachment challenges.
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Heart & Helping Hand Award Presentation - Mrs. Dorothy Gaithers
NOTE: Virtual networking time during the lunch hour, breaks, and post conference is available at Wonder- virtual videoconference networking space
Ginger Healy, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker/Parenting Program Director
Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.
Ginger Healy received her master’s degree in social work from UNLV and is a licensed clinical social worker. She has worked in the field of child and family services and hospital trauma for several years until she adopted her son from Romania. At that point she started working for Children’s House International Adoption Agency for the next 15 years serving as the social service supervisor. This job taught her so much about attachment and trauma. In 2016 she was awarded The Angels in Adoption Award and met Julie Beem a fellow awardee. She was so impressed that when an opportunity to work for The Attachment and Trauma Network came up, she jumped in head first. She is married with four children and her greatest teachers about developmental trauma and special needs have been her children. She hopes to give back to parents in her professional life and through community support. She has been able to lead the Iron County Utah Autism Support Group and serve on the board of Gateway Preparatory Academy.
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