Trauma, ACES and Brain Development: How Foster Youth May Be Affected

Sonja Lenz-Rashid, PhD, LCSW

Training Description

The training workshop will take a developmental approach, highlighting the impact of trauma on brain development and cognitive functioning at different stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence in foster youth and systems-involved youth. This course provides an overview of ACES, early brain development, and how complex trauma can affect such development. Attendees will learn about the impact of such trauma, as well as gain a deeper understanding on how it may show up in all relationships, symptoms, and behaviors in foster youth and systems-involved youth.

Learning Objectives

• Knowledge of Neurodevelopment in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence

• Knowledge of Trauma in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence and outcomes of ACES