Raising Resilient Children: Healing After Domestic Violence

One in four women and one in nine men will survive some form of domestic violence in their lifetime, which amounts to 3.3 to 10 million children each year who have endured witnessing domestic violence in some form (physical, emotional, psychological, and/or verbal). Children who have survived witnessing domestic violence have been negatively impacted in several ways, including the way their brain is wired to now survive what their brain perceives as a dangerous world. These neurological impacts show up in behaviors that many times are misdiagnosed for their trauma responses. The goal of this training is to help providers see our children through a trauma-informed, intersectional lens. It will explore neurobiology and impact of trauma with domestic violence techniques to help the caregiver or provider rethink traditional discipline, and how generational violence/trauma, race, economic status, culture, experience, and environment impact healing from trauma. This training will utilize visual displays.

3 social work SCECHs - Approval #MICEC-0060