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“Thank you to C.A.S.E. for providing the School-Based Mental Health Professionals Training. The training addresses the complex educational needs of adopted children and those in kinship and foster care. The training content helps in understanding the underlying behaviors of children who have experienced trauma and gives great tips for supporting both students and their families. Tools to bridge the gap between classroom teachers and families make the program practical. The information is presented engagingly and interactively, and you’re not simply having PowerPoint presentations read to you. I recommend this program to anyone interested in learning more about supporting students experiencing adoption, kinship care, or foster care.”
Sally J. Jornlin, MEd, LCSW-C
CASS Coordinator
Frederick County Public Schools, Maryland
“The School-based Training for Mental Health Professionals from C.A.S.E. helps counselors and teachers to work with students in more effective ways to improve well-being. It supports deeper problem-solving for students’ behaviors and provides reminders for many teachers about how the brain functions in a young child who has been affected by trauma. The training also helps with educating teachers as a sizable percentage do not understand foster care backgrounds. I appreciated the self-reflection pieces and exercises which are so realistic to the actual situations of students from so many types of trauma backgrounds and those experiencing homelessness. We have some families living in their cars or tents. We have a supportive community that meets some of their basic needs, but generally, the shelters can be unsafe. The trauma piece plays into that. The impact of grief and loss relates very well to the homeless students. I like how the training increases the size of the “student and teacher toolboxes.” Some kids do not come to school with many tools; it’s pure survival each hour. The training gives numerous tools and free resources for a much more fortified toolbox. I hope many school districts will use this training!”
Ana Enselman, M.S.W.
District-Wide Social Worker
Family Services Coordinator | Foster Care Liaison
Nooksack Valley School District, Washington
“NTI School-based Mental Health Professionals Training Is an outstanding resource for school-based professionals and behavioral health specialists. The training program is filled with evidence-based research strategies for supporting youth and families who have experienced the challenges associated with the world of adoption, foster care and kinship parenting relationships. The training not only offers extraordinary guidance for those whose lives have been touched by the related trauma of these lived experiences but supports trauma informed practices for young people from many backgrounds. This training will impact my professional practice in a multitude of ways. The knowledge base is one that holds promise for all who work with children and families. It can be life-changing for all involved.”
Dr. Jenny Wojcik
Superintendent Rondout School District 72
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Due to traumatic life experiences and compromised beginnings, many children who are adopted, who are being raised by relatives (kinship care), or have experienced foster care have higher risks for developmental, health, emotional, behavioral, and academic challenges.
Of therapy clients were children under the age of 18 in 2021.
Served in 2021 through therapy, case management, post-adoption services and Wendy's Wonderful Kids recruitment program.
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