D15 Fostering Family Partnerships: Bridging Law and Trauma-Informed Care, Practical Tools to Enhance Trauma-Informed Legal Practice

Jessica Richards

This workshop discusses the essential information about the impact of trauma for professionals in the child welfare system. The discussion includes practical tools from the Neurorelational Framework (Lillas and Turnbull, 2009) to detect “red flags” and ideas for interventions to mediate the impact. This presentation is suited for judges, attorneys, CASAs, child welfare professionals and others who interface with children and families in the child welfare system.