Supporting Regulation: Identifying Triggers (Part 3)

In part 3 of a 8 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us identify our child's triggers, including the most common ones for children who have experienced complex trauma and are in foster care. After identifying those triggers, she helps us to see how we can proactively talk to our children with curiosity and empathy and access additional resources that will help us provide felt safety for our children, to lessen the impact these triggers have on them. Take a listen to part 3 (or go check out parts 1-2 first!).

 

The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.