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Mental Health Support for Teachers in Montana — Brownlee Counseling

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Discover support tailored for teachers at Brownlee Counseling. Explore resources, counseling services, and strategies to enhance well-being and foster resilience in the classroom. Prioritize your mental health today!

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Child Abuse Prevention Centers of Montana

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The Family Tree Center 2520 5th Avenue South Billings MT, 59101-4342

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Zero to Five Lincoln County is a county-wide collaborative working together with a variety of partners, agencies, and community members to make a positive impact in the lives of families with young children.

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Zero to Five Lincoln County is a county-wide collaborative working together with a variety of partners, agencies, and community members to make a positive impact in the lives of families with young children.

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National Native Children's Trauma Center

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National Native Children's Trauma Center

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National Native Children's Trauma Center

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University of Montana NNCTC A Category 2 Treatment and Services Adaptation Center Within SAMHSA's National Child Traumatic Stress Network

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Available in Missoula,Polson, Ronan, and Pablo

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Families First Learning Lab in Missoula, MT. Strengthening families through education, connection, play, and partnership

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MT Trauma-Informed Early Childhood Advisory Coalition 

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MT Trauma-Informed Early Childhood Advisory Coalition 

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Trauma-Informed EC Supporting Trauma-Informed Care & Polices for EC Organizations & Providers MOre information Trauma-Informed EC Advisory Coalition The lifelong impacts of trauma on children and adults is widely known. For years, organizations and champions across Montana have worked to address the impacts of trauma on children, families and communities.

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Strengthening Families Since 1981

The Parenting Place is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is the prevention of child abuse and neglect through strengthening families since 1981.

T o help families develop healthy parent-child relationships, to improve the futures of our children and ensure healthy families in our community.

What We Offer

We provide services to strengthen families across Montana

Nurturing Parenting Program

Our 12-week evidence-based Nurturing Parenting Program allows caregivers of children and teens to connect and support each other in a non-judgmental and welcoming environment.

Parent Aide is a voluntary home visiting program that is here to help provide intensive support, information, and effective parenting tips. Our in-home visits are flexible and can be 1-2 hours, 1-2 times a week, or what works for you. We are here to help you focus on parental resilience & knowledge, social connections, and the safety of children.

Parents Connect

Support Group

Parents Connect is a bi-monthly, virtual group for parents & caregivers to gather in a safe, non-judgmental space, where we support one another with the joys and challenges of caring for children. Our group provides free educational and evidence-based information on activities focusing on areas of self-care, routines, communication skills, healthy relationships, and more... Join us to create local connections and lets grow together!

To report suspected child abuse and neglect please call:

Meaningful

WAYS TO GIVE

Gary Muralt Memorial Match

Donating In Honor or In Memory

Consider Remembering Us in Your Will

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Parenting Classes | The Parenting Place | Missoula

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The Parenting Place is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is the prevention of child abuse and neglect through strengthening families since 1981. Our goals are to help families develop healthy parent-child relationships, to improve the futures of our children and ensure healthy families in our community.

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EmpowerMT's youth and schools programming focuses on healing centered youth led change rooted in belonging, meaning, well-being and purpose. This pathway of leadership development offers opportunities to explore identity, understand the impact of systemic oppression, and develop skills and confidence to create meaningful positive change.

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EmpowerMT's youth and schools programming focuses on healing centered youth led change rooted in belonging, meaning, well-being and purpose. This pathway of leadership development offers opportunities to explore identity, understand the impact of systemic oppression, and develop skills and confidence to create meaningful positive change.

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Great Falls

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Alliance for Youth Our Vision and Mission ​
Vision: An engaged and empowering community where youth and families can find hope, heal and thrive​

Mission: Alliance for Youth, Inc. creates social change to advance healthy youth and family development within North Central Montana communities through educational and collaborative approaches.​

A community working together can accomplish far more than any single group ​

Providing Youth and families resources, skills and opportunities which will improve their ability to make choices supporting healthy development ​

We need to honor the voice and value the involvement of those we serve ​

If we break the cycle, we improve the future ​

Trauma-informed approaches are essential to nurturing trust, hope and healing ​

Who We Are ​
Alliance for Youth (AFY) advances strategies to ensure the healthy development of youth-our most valuable resource and our future! AFY is a responsible steward of public and private funding and invests in evidence-based strategies that improve risk and protective factors in Cascade County, Montana community, school, family and individual environments.​

Through strong stakeholder partnerships, the AFY team continues to champion prevention and reduction of underage drinking and illegal drug use, abuse and dependency; as well as championing improvements in mental and emotional health, delinquency, juvenile violence, school drop- out and early childhood trauma. ​
Our Programs ​
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Youth Resource Center (YRC) ​
The Youth Resource Center mission statement: We meet the basic needs of our community's youth and connect them to services that promote positive change.

The YRC Drop-in Center is a first point of contact that provides an informal, safe atmosphere to attract and engage youth who are disadvantaged at risk and/or homeless.
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Key features of the YRC include:

Low- or No-Barrier: Foster a welcoming, safe, non-judgmental environment, with limited requirements, conveniently located near public transportation.

Meet Basic Needs: Provide easy access to food, laundry, shower and clothes. Provide access to Internet, phones, and lockers for storage of belongings. Referral and transportation for basic healthcare, mental health appointments and first aid.

Trauma-Informed Care: Despite the informal atmosphere, staff is trained and ready to provide crisis intervention, conflict resolution and supporting services. It is especially important that staff be trained or have access to services specifically for LGBTQ and/or tribal youth, who are disproportionately represented among youth who are experiencing homelessness in our state.

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Key features of the YRC include:

Positive Youth Development: Staff is trained to develop the youth's competence, confidence, connection and contribution.

Youth Focused: Create a positive and healthy peer network for youth, access to caring adults and engage in youth-centered programming.

Service Coordination: Operate as a central hub for services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health support, substance abuse treatment referral, housing search support and advocacy. Staff can help with documentation and facilitating school re-engagement or connection to adult basic education or workforce development programs. Drop-in center operates in tandem with mobile "street and school" outreach programs, family engagement services, emergency shelters and transitional housing.

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The Youth Resource Center Fills Huge Resource Gaps
The Center Offers:

Safe supportive environment

Transportation assistance

Connection to employment, education/training & housing

Life skills

Extensive referral network

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Volunteer Army

Volunteers are vital to the YRC. Without an army of dedicated individuals, we would not be able to support the growing need.

Community Ambassadors

YRC has a revolving training and orientation protocol. We found that informed volunteers are engaged volunteers.

It's not just about a 'Pulling a shift'

We encourage volunteers to come to the center to "do life" with the youth they have developed relationships with.

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Recognizing the Importance of Relationship-The heart of what we do
As staff or a volunteer, we are leaders in our community. We will inherently have power within the relationship we form with youth. Power is defined as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. There are four types of power - power over, power with, power to, and power within. We focus our efforts on 'power with'.

'Power with' is built on shared power that grows with trusting relationships, and collaboration. It is built on respect, mutual support, solidarity, influence, empowerment, and collaborative decision making. Within the 'power with' relationship, we would like to see the following - instead of relying on rules, we show respect. Instead of pointing out problems, we leverage strengths, instead of having to be in control, we are a guide who supports people in their own experience. It is our responsibility to develop a 'power with' relationship with the people that we work with. It is our responsibility to support the people we are working with by giving their experiences the same credibility as our own. We support the person by supporting them on their own journey, helping to build their self-efficacy. Ways that we can do this is to:

Support individuals to identify their strengths using unconditional positive regard.

Support the individual to discover their goals through asking open-ended questions Explore with them what resources they have, or can access, that could help them achieve their goals.

Consider what other support they might need from possible referrals and professional services

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Cross-pollinating Volunteer and Service Opportunities
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Cross-pollinating Service Opportunities with Partners
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How did we start...?

Organic community grassroots steering committee.

We built the YRC out of an outcry in the community. Reaching out to other organizations locally and statewide

Asking for specific donations from similar organizations with same mission such as your vision. Asking businesses, schools, civic organizations in the community to do food drives, sock drives and other collections

Asking for Non-food items: hygiene products, socks, hats, gloves, sports equipment, shoes/boots, gift cards, laundry pods, dryer sheets and bus passes

Financial support: Donor and Capital Campaigns

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Making the ASK, in and out of your community
We built the YRC by reaching out locally and statewide

Asking and communicating inside your community and if there is a lack/need, go outside the community for broader scope of research such as State, National for specific program help.

Ask elders in your community for input and ideas. Create a culturally sensitive model that maximize all aspects of your community (building a culture of honor). We asked those who had come before us for wisdom. We sought out support from anyone interested but stayed true to what we had capacity for.

We engaged with the ones who wanted to 'Father and Mother' those who were abandoned (emotional investment)

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QUESTIONS?
Thank you for allowing me to present...Lisa

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Lisa Beavers, Program Director Youth Resource Center (YRC) for Alliance for Youth
406.952.0136
www.allianceforyouth.org

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AWARE | mental health service provider | 205 East Park Avenue, Anaconda, MT, USA

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Mental health, developmental disability, and early childhood services.

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Early Childhood Coalition of Flathead Valley

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Early Childhood Coalition of Flathead Valley

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The Early Childhood Coalition of Flathead Valley is an inclusive effort to bring community-based organizations
that serve young children and families together with families and community members.

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Early Childhood Coalition of Flathead Valley | Supporting healthy childhood growth and development

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The Early Childhood Coalition of Flathead Valley is an inclusive effort to bring community-based organizations that serve young children and families together with families and community members.

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The UM CCFWD has partnered with the State Health Improvement Plan to develop a resource on Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency.

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Early Childhood Collaborative of the Greater Helena Area

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The Early Childhood Collaborative of the Greater Helena Area (ECC) is a collaborative effort of several organizations and individuals to promote systemic change for children age prenatal to eight and their families. The ECC does not provide direct services to children or families but helps coordinate communications and community efforts to promote positive early childhood outcomes.

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The Early Childhood Collaborative of the Greater Helena Area (ECC) is a collaborative effort of several organizations and individuals to promote systemic change for children age prenatal to eight and their families. The ECC does not provide direct services to children or families but helps coordinate communications and community efforts to promote positive early childhood outcomes.

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Missoula

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First Step Resource Center, a National Children's Alliance-accredited children's advocacy center at Providence St. Patrick Hospital, provides medical evaluations, forensic interviews, mental health treatments, care coordination and referrals for child and adult victims of abuse or assault.

Since 2000, First Step has been dedicated to reducing trauma and promoting healing for child victims of abuse and adult victims of sexual assault in Missoula and surrounding counties.

First Step is part of JUST Response team, a community-wide initiative that brings together law enforcement agencies, Child and Family Services, the County Attorney's office, advocacy organizations and mental health providers to provide a coordinated, supportive response to reports of abuse and assault. Our services are available to people in Missoula and the surrounding area. This team approach ensures that victims receive a trauma-informed and coordinated response from the multiple agencies that can be involved in a report of abuse or assault. This collaborative response results in stronger investigations and convictions. It also allows for better supportive services for families, including mental health, medical care and advocacy.

Our team is specially trained in treating kids of all ages and helping them and their families get through this particular trauma. We offer the following services to help children and their families.

We provide sensitive, caring guidance and support to adults and teenagers affected by sexual violence.

Our staff provides education and outreach throughout the Missoula area. We offer informative presentations on many difficult topics, including rape, child abuse and many others.

If you suspect a child may be the victim of assault or abuse, our Handbook for Caregivers Concerned About Abuse can be a helpful first resource. The handbook offers information about the roles of First Step and other agencies involved in abuse cases. It also covers how to support a child and other community resources available to help.

If you suspect child abuse

Call 911 for emergencies

Call Child and Family Services Centralized Intake at 866-820-5437 to make a report

Call First Step Resource Center at 406-329-5776 to make a referral or request more information

If you have been sexually assaulted, you may choose to:

Go to a safe place

Call 911 if you would like to speak with law enforcement

Call the YWCA at 406-542-1944 if you would like support or are unsure what to do

Go to the Emergency Department or contact First Step at 406-329-5776 - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

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First Step Resource Center at Providence St. Patrick Hospital helps you start to heal physically, emotionally and mentally after sexual assault and abuse.

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Bozeman

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Early Childhood | Healthy Start Missoula

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Families with young children can find support for parenting challenges and information about programs available in our community. It is normal to need support, and Healthy Start Missoula is here to help!

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In the United States, there are more 2.7 million children being raised by grandparents, other relatives or nonrelated family friends. These children often come to them because of family crisis and the relative parents are often ill-equipped to deal with the emotional, physical, financial and social hardships of raising children "a second time around".

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There are numerous reasons for the increase in this relative parent-led family form and often the reasons are intertwined: parental substance abuse, physical or mental health problems, financial difficulties, teen pregnancy, incarceration, death and deployment. The issue cuts across all socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups.

The Montana Kinship Navigator Program serves Kinship Caregivers for the entire state of Montana. The program was founded in 2002 to offer kinship caregivers support, education and access to resources to assist caregivers in raising their children so they can live happier, healthier lives and can, in turn, raise children who know emotional and physical safety, excel in school and social situations and are prepared to take on the challenges of their new life.

What is a kin family?

A kin family is a family that has taken in a child that is not biologically their own for a number of various reasons. Grandparents raising their grandchildren is a great example of a common kinship family.

Raising kin is a rewarding task, but is often one that is accompanied by challenges that may look different for every family. If you've found yourself in a position where you are raising a child/children who are not your own, whether planned or not, the Montana Kinship Navigator Program is here to support you.

About MTKNP

Learn more about who The Montana Kinship Navigator Program is, the population is serves and the goals it strives to meet.

Resources

Is your family undergoing a stressful transition and in need of resources to help? These links might be helpful.

Education Opportunities & Support Groups

Learn about the current classes MTKNP is hosting and how to join in.

FAQ

Answers to questions we are commonly asked at MTKNP

Contact MTKNP

We are here to help! Call, email or send a form with your questions- we'll help you find the answers.

MSU Extension and the Montana Kinship Navigator Program works to provide fully accessible information to everyone. If you encounter something on our webpages which is not readily accessible to you please contact our MSU Extension Administration Specialist at 406-994-6969.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Montana State University and Montana State University Extension prohibit discrimination in all of their programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital and family status.

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Previously the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Project, this program assists relatives and kin in raising children without parental involvement.

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Our incredible opportunity to help more young families.

Mountain Home Montana provides a safe home and nurturing community where young mothers can discover their strengths and their children can thrive.

Mountain Home is one of only three organizations in Montana providing a long-term residential housing program and a full suite of wraparound services for young mothers and their children facing homelessness. In our 24 years in operation, we have served over 2000 women and children.

Mountain Home's regular waiting list of over 40 women underscores the urgent need for our care. Last June, we made a significant step forward by purchasing Hillside Manor, a former nursing home on a 5-acre campus in the South Hills. This property will triple the number of women and children we can accommodate and expand programs and services for hundreds of community members and organizational partners.

We need the support of our community to turn this former healthcare facility into a home.

Join us in May and June for a fun series of public events, food and drink specials and other celebrations - and help us open another door for a brighter future! Click here for a calendar of our events.

Help us open another door for brighter futures by donating today.

Help us reach our $1 million goal.

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Young families in need of support | Mountain Home Montana

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We provide shelter for young mothers who need a place to live, and a network of support as they create safe, stable, and nurturing homes.

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A JOURNEY TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE IN MONTANA INDIAN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

The Billings Area Office of Indian Health Service (IHS) partners with Mountain Pacific on grant funding from the Montana Healthcare Foundation to support IHS facilities, tribal health departments and urban Indian centers in the implementation of trauma-informed care. This project helps organizational and clinical practices make widespread changes to address trauma and its impact on Montana's American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.

What is trauma?
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) describes trauma as events or circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening that result in adverse effects on the individual's functioning and wellbeing.

What is trauma-informed care?
Trauma-informed care takes the patient's experience into account at a clinical and organizational level. According to SAMHSA, a trauma-informed organization

realizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery;

recognizes the signs and symptoms of trauma in clients, families and others;

responds by fully integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures and practices;

resists re-traumatization, meaning actively works to make sure a patient is not further traumatized.

What is missing? Contact us with your needs. We want to support you in your trauma-informed care journey!
Alona Jarmin, RN, BSN, MSN
Project Manager
Mountain Pacific
ajarmin@mpqhf.org
(406) 594-0217

LeeAnn Bruised Head, MPH, CDR USPHS Commissioned Corps Officer
Public Health Adviser, Director - Office of Urban Indian Health Programs (OUIHP)
Billings Area Indian Health Service
leeann.bruisedhead@ihs.gov
(406) 247-7073

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Trauma-Informed Care - Mountain-Pacific Quality Healthcare

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Trauma-Informed Care Join our email list A JOURNEY TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE IN MONTANA INDIAN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS Resource Links Education and Tools Mountain Pacific Blogs eCQI Resources Antibiotic Stewardship Resources Regional Chronic Disease Collaborative The Billings Area Office of Indian Health Service (IHS) partners with Mountain Pacific on grant funding from the Montana Healthcare Foundation to support IHS facilities, tribal health departments and urban Indian centers in the implementation of trauma-informed care.

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The Nurturing Center - Strengthening Families & Sustaining Communities

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The Nurturing Center was founded in 1978 to provide comprehensive support, education and resources to families in a way that focused on empowering parents to build stronger families and healthy, happy children. Our facility is located in downtown Kalispell and serves Flathead, Lincoln, Lake and Sanders counties. The Nurturing Center's programs are designed around factors that, when present in a family, can eliminate or greatly reduce the risk of abuse or neglect and have been found to be essential in keeping children safe, happy, and healthy.

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The Nurturing Center was founded to provide support, education and resources to families, empowering parents to build stronger families and happy children.

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Parenting Montana provides easy-to-use parenting tools to support your child's success from kindergarten through the teen years.

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MFCN - The Montana Family Childcare Network

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The Montana Family Childcare Network is a collaboration of early childhood interests, who represent Montana's Family Childcare Educators and advocates with united voices on behalf of all children, families, and family childcare educators, to promote and encourage quality professional family childcare and early education through professional education, mentoring, and advocacy.

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DEVELOPMENTAL ADVERSITY, RESILIENCE, AND TRANSFORMATION (DART) LAB

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DEVELOPMENTAL ADVERSITY, RESILIENCE, AND TRANSFORMATION (DART) LAB

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Developmental Adversity, Resilience, and Transformation (DART) Lab

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Given the broad range of both developmental adversity and the mechanisms underlying costly health and social outcomes, the Developmental Adversity, Resilience & Transformation (DART) Lab takes a inter/transdisciplinary approach to research, teaching and learning, and community engagement in order to change the landscape of developmental adversity-informed action.

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Secondary Trauma Resiliency Skills Training

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Secondary Trauma Resiliency Skills Training

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Andrew works with both an experiential and a content-driven training process to build resiliency in professionals at risk of experiencing secondary trauma. The training integrates trauma theory, attachment theory, neurobiology, and embodiment work as it applies to the secondary trauma we are exposed to through work in traumatic work environments. Andrew creates safety in any experiential process and encourages participants to track the impact of these training strategies on their whole system.
Training packages will be available online soon. To inquire in the interim, email: What is Secondary Trauma? activateresiliency@gmail.com.
Secondary trauma is not merely an emotional disorder, although emotional distress is one aspect of its presentation. Rather, secondary trauma emerges from the way humans use brain and body functions to connect with other humans in effective collaborative relationships. Mirror neurons in the human brain allow the professional to deeply understand the experiences of those they serve. This means that we feel WITH our clients, not FOR our clients.
Definition of resiliency.
This feeling WITH the client means that the content of the client's experience is recorded in all parts of the tri-partite brain of the professional worker. Their thinking patterns are impacted, emotions are hijacked, and their body selves are activated by the traumatic content of the cases they work in. If the worker is not trained in the recognition of secondary trauma process and its antidotes, they begin an unsustainable erosion of their own personal and professional capacity.

Resiliency does not just limit the toxicity of trauma, but it creates the potential to transform toxic distress into strength. The goal of resiliency practice is to create post-traumatic growth, meaning that the life and body of the worker is enhanced and strengthened not merely salvaged from the toxicity of trauma.

Resiliency is the natural tendency of the human being to protect themselves in the face of traumatic exposure. It includes the use of body, emotion, communication, and relationship-based activities that strengthen the core self of the workers so they can meet trauma with a strengthening response. It is the replacement of toxic trauma with powerful skills and practices.

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Yellowstone County

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Trauma Informed Care - Healthy By Design

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Trauma Informed Care Creating welcoming care spaces for all We carry our childhood experiences, good and bad, with us into adulthood. Experiences that affect us negatively, called Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), can increase an individual’s risk for chronic disease, social and emotional issues and more. As a community, we must better understand how exposure to