Where
This is an online event.
March 2018 Distant RC Trainer Webinar
The Importance of Fathers and Male Caregivers in Healing Trauma Survivors
Training Description
Why are fathers and male caregivers so absent in the treatment of children in our agencies? Sometimes it’s because there are few men in our clients’ lives. Sometimes men are the perpetrators of violence for which our clients are seeking treatment. But even when there ARE important male figures in the lives of the clients we serve, they often stay away from our programs.
In this RC Trainer Webinar, we will explore these behaviors and circumstances by considering some familiar RC questions: What happened (to these fathers and men) that explains their behavior? How do we as treaters (and agencies) contribute to and reinforce such behavior? The answers to these questions will help us identify attitudes and practices for being more father/male-inclusive in our delivery of trauma-informed care.
Join us for the first Distant RC Trainer Webinar of 2018.
Learning Outcomes Include:
- Increased understanding of trends, benefits and barriers to father/male caregiver engagement
- Increased understanding of how our own father/male caregiver experience informs our professional father/male caregiver experience
- Increased understanding of how our agencies may present barriers to father engagement
- Strategies for increasing father/male caregiver engagement in professional settings
Presenters
John Engel is a Program Coordinator for the Traumatic Stress Institute. John approaches the topic of fatherhood through multiple roles, including: 1) An engaged father and co-parent of an 8-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, 2) Writer of ’The Fatherhood Journey’ column, which includes 72 monthly columns--and counting--in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, 3) Executive Director of MERGE for Equality, which promotes healthy masculinity and male engagement in gender equality, and 4) a trauma informed care trainer for the Traumatic Stress Institute.
Steve Brown, Psy.D., is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers and Coordinator of the Risking Connection Training Program. He trains professionals nationally on psychological trauma, trauma-informed care, and youth with sexual behavior problems. In addition to being a psychologist, he is a long-time sexuality educator/trainer and author of Streetwise to Sex-Wise: Sexuality Education for High Risk Youth, a sexuality education curricula used internationally by agencies and schools serving high risk youth.
Additional Information
Webinars are only for RC Trainers and Champions at TSI client agencies who are far away from our New Britain, CT office. The cost of webinars are covered by your agency. CEU's are not available for webinars; they are available only for in-person events.
In order to be credited for attendance at this Webinar, you must sign in directly via the GoToTraining link or write your name and agency into the chat box once the webinar begins. An e-mail confirming your attendance will be sent after each webinar.