ADVANCED STANDING (MSW) CHILD WELFARE IN SOCIAL WORK

Understand and address the impact of trauma on children and families, the resulting changes in behavior, on a developmental continuum, and on key relationships.

Help children make alternative and a new meaning of their trauma history on their current experiences.

Coordinate, collaborate and provide assistance/guidance to agencies in the system to maximize child’s safety; maximize the child’s sense of safety (both physical and psychological); understand and deal with the concept of trauma triggers; understand and assist children in reducing the overwhelming emotions associated with the trauma; utilize comprehensive assessments in order to assess the child’s traumatic experience, and use the assessment to guide services.

Assure strategic partnerships to transform child-serving systems to deal effectively with traumatized children; provide sustainability in approach and subsequent outcomes of trauma-informed systems; improve the awareness, knowledge, and skills of professionals dealing with trauma; raise public awareness about child trauma; influence public policy and funding for agencies in the system dealing with trauma; and, evaluate assessment and intervention strategies and provide feedback for change if necessary.