Supporting Regulation: Taking Care of Your Own Nervous System (Part 5 )

In part 5 of a 8 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us take a look at the costs of caring for children with complex developmental trauma and walks us through a way to take inventory of our own unmet needs and make a plan to better care for ourselves. Take a listen to part 5 (or go check out parts 1-4 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.