A trauma-informed model for supporting pre-adoptive placements

Abstract

Providers and caregivers within the child serving system of care are often inadequately educated, trained, or supported. Within the child serving system of care, there is a clear need for interdisciplinary system intervention models that support the child and family by providing trauma-informed and trauma-responsive training, coaching, and related services to (a) foster and pre-adoptive caregivers, (b) the child welfare workforce, and (c) the mental health workforce. This chapter describes an initiative being implemented in one state to improve the likelihood for trauma consolidation and well-being and increase the prospects for healthy adjustment and stable, successful adoption.