Colby Pearce
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Supporting consistent Therapeutic Caregiving -
Companion App for Therapeutic Classrooms and alignment with home. A practical guide to Attachment & Attachment Disorder
Resilient Kids
Secure Start – Trauma Informed
Self-Paced Learning Modules
The CARE Curriculum
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We Love Collaborating
Secure Start® is looking to collaborate with organisations who share our vision of supporting happy, connected children. Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child care, early learning, foster care, kinship care, Model of Care, model of practice, residential care, resilience, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic parenting, trauma, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma sensitive schools
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Child development: The importance of emotional connection
Emotional connection, initiated by an adult caretaker, is important because it supports several extremely important aspects of a child’s emotional development. Connecting with the emotional experience of an infant supports a reciprocal emotional connection from the infant. Within this emotional … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, child development, connection, emotional connectedness, emotional connection, emotional development, empathy, fostercare, kinship care, reciprocity, relative care, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma-informed school
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Complex Trauma: Three things you need to know about how it impacts the developing child
Complex Trauma occurs when children experience prolonged and debilitating fear and distress as a result of adverse experiences that occur recurrently and/or in combination, and where the person or person’s who are responsible for keeping the child safe from harm and alleviate their distress is/are:
1. unable to alleviate the child’s distress; or
2. responsible or the child’s distress. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Schools, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, complex developmental trauma, Complex Trauma, developmental trauma, kinship care, post adoption support, school, Social Care, social care worker, social worker, teacher, therapeutic care, therapeutic foster care, trauma informed
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Trauma Informed Care Resource
This resource represents an endeavour to support the implementation of therapeutic care environments and effective working connections between home and school in support of recovery for children who have experienced trauma at home. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, trauma informed, trauma informed care, Uncategorized
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Tagged adoption, kinship care, kinship carer, post adoption support, therapeutic care, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic fostering, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed care principles, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools, traumarecovery
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Why clinicians use play in therapy with children
In response to the statement that he or she (the clinician) ‘just plays with the children’ I give you the following reasons why play is important. Continue reading →
Posted in Therapy
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, arousal, attachment, Attachment Disorder, behaviour management, behaviour problems, child trauma, childrens behaviour, development, fostering, parenting, trauma informed, wellbeing
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A Gentle Method for Getting Children to Sleep Part Two
This is a follow-up to the very popular article A Gentle Method for Getting Children to Sleep in their Own Beds. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting
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Tagged adoption, adoptive parent, foster parent, fostering, kinship carer, parenting, trauma informed, trauma informed care
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Trauma-Informed: Adopting a Balanced View
Eyes are mirrors for a child’s soul. What do children see in your eyes? Continue reading →
Posted in Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Training Programs, trauma informed, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged adoption, attachment, foster care, kinship care, parenting, reactive attachment disorder, resilience, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma-informed school, wellbeing
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School Holidays : A brief survival guide
Dear subscribers and visitors. It is Christmas holiday time here in Australia, and I thought that I would update this older post, which was very much buried in this site. Again, it contains some practical advice that many parents, grandparents, … Continue reading →
Posted in Adoption, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting
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Tagged adoption, attachment, foster care, fostering, kinship care, oppositional defiant disorder, parenting, psychology, resilience, Social Care
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Understanding, Connection and Wellbeing
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Uncategorized, Wellbeing, Youth Suicide
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Tagged adoption, anxiety, attachment, depression, foster care, fostering, kinship care, mental health, mentalhealth, parenting, psychology, resilience, wellbeing
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We all need CARE
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child care, fostercare, fostering, kinshipcare, mental health, parenting, psychology, residential care
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Attachment and Resilience 