The MAJECT team at JRI provides FREE, Virtual Trauma-Informed Caregiving Workshops for foster, adoptive, kinship, and biological caregivers of children who have experienced trauma.
There are two workshop series:
1) The Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC)
"Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents"
2) The "Breakthrough Parenting Curriculum (BPC): Navigating Trauma Across Generations"
Eligibility:
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These workshops are open to parents and caregivers of children (ages 0-17) who live in or receive services in Massachusetts and have been impacted by trauma and/or violence.
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The family does not need to already have JRI services to access the workshops.
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These workshops are for caregivers and are not intended as a professional development workshop.
What Caregivers Will Learn:
In the workshops, caregivers will learn about the impact of trauma on the development and behavior of children and how to:
Questions & How to Sign Up:
If you have any questions or would like to sign up for an upcoming workshop series, please email Katie McCarthy, PhD, at
km*******@*ri.org. You are welcome to check out MAJECT's
website for more information.
The workshops are sponsored by Massachusetts Justice and Equity for Child Trauma (MAJECT), a program of Justice Resource Institute, and are funded by Grant # 15PJDP-23-GK-00789-CEVJ, through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
