Upcoming Trainings & Events

Objectives

1. Understand the psychobiological impact of traumatic stress in childhood.
2. Identify how post-traumatic stress disorder increases the risk of substance use disorders.
3. Learn about current evidence based treatment strategies to integrate into substance use disorder services.

Are you a Caregiver? If you are, we know you are busy and may find it hard to take time to take care of yourself.  VA’s Caregiver Support Program’s Taking Care of Yourself course is designed...

Objectives

1. Understand the psychobiological impact of traumatic stress in childhood.
2. Identify how post-traumatic stress disorder increases the risk of substance use disorders.
3. Learn about current evidence based treatment strategies to integrate into substance use disorder services.

Youth in foster care have often experienced neglect and abuse, which can result in challenges with attachment, trauma, mood issues and complex grief and loss. As a result, they deserve the best therapeutic approaches possible. A foster youth's challenges can best be healed through the combined efforts of foster/kinship/adoptive parents, foster-care caseworkers and therapy provided by professionals who are competent in foster-care dynamics.