Resources

The Provincial Caregiver Training Team offers caregivers training aligned with research, laws, policies, and Indigenous perspectives. Training covers key frameworks like Signs of Safety and trauma-informed approaches. It includes self-paced learning via PRIDE and virtual Alberta-specific courses.

This pathway is for all practitioners working with adults, whether as a generalist practitioner or as an AOD specialist. It explores the potential impacts of parental substance use on children’s relationships, physical and mental health, and wellbeing. It provides a guide for talking with parents about their substance use and how it may be affecting their child, and strategies to help empower parents by identifying their strengths and the hopes they have for their family. These courses include: The Impact of Parental Substance Use on the Child, and Parental substance use and child-aware practice.

This training, created by Sheri Madigan, is focused on the AMBIANCE-brief tool, derived from the Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification, aiming in screening disrupted parenting behaviors in clinical settings. This supports identifying high-risk families and planning interventions, staff training, and risk screening activities in family services.

This page provides a free nine-session program to train foster parents to better care for children who have had traumatic experiences.

This free three-hour course is designed to equip and empower people who work with children and youth to be a support to children who may have been exposed to maltreatment or other adverse experiences.

This virtual workshop, given by Dr. Patricia Kerig, tackles secondary traumatic stress (STS) in trauma-related fields, stressing organizational responsibility and professional skills for a supportive work environment.

This is a free centralized resource for providers and resource parents who are using or interested in using Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents in their communities.

The courses in this pathway are designed to support the professional development of child protection practitioners, child and family practitioners, and social workers. However, it’s likely that other practitioners may find the courses in this pathway useful as well. These courses exposing diverse topics include: Understanding Child Mental Health, Intergenerational Mental Health, The Impact of Trauma on the Child, Supporting Children who Have Experienced Trauma, Engaging with Parents, Engaging with Children, Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children: A framework for understanding, Understanding Child Mental Health and Disability, The Impact of Family and Domestic Violence on the Child, Family and Domestic Violence and Child-Aware Practice, Engaging Children: Good Beginnings, Engaging Children: Rich Pictures, and Engaging Children: Shrinking Problems.

The CARE model is a principle-based program model that provides organizations a framework for practice based on a valid theory of how children develop. It motivates children and staff to adhere to routines, structures, and processes while minimizing the potential for interpersonal conflict.

In this workshop, Dr. Delphine Collin-Vézina reviews the individual, familial, social and cultural factors that have influence over the appearance of long term side effects following repeated trauma; she presents, in detail, the Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency Model; (ARC, Kinniburgh, Blaustein, Spinazzola & van der Kolk, 2005). This model is inspired by attachment and resilience theories, and puts into practice psychoeducational and cognitive behavioural techniques, focusing on strengths and adaptation capabilities of the child and their family. This course is intended for healthcare workers who wish to identify and serve youth with a history of multiple abuse.