Trauma, ACES and Brain Development: How Foster Youth May Be Affected
Tue, Jan 19
|Online Event


Time & Location
Jan 19, 2021, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Online Event
About the Event
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