by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their...
Supporting Regulation: When Behaviors Are Scary and Where to Get Help
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 8 of an 8-part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, explains a new lens to see some of our biggest scariest moments of dysregulation and offers us some new ways to support our most...
Supporting Regulation: Keeping Behaviors Low & Returning to Calm
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 7 of an 8-part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us take a look at strategies that we can use to keep behaviors low once they begin and help bring our children back to calm...
Supporting Regulation: Proactive Strategies
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 6 of a 9 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us take a look at proactive strategies that can support our child's regulation and prevent some major dysregulation from...
Supporting Regulation: Taking Care of Your Own Nervous System
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 5 of a 9 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us take a look at the costs of caring for children with complex developmental trauma and walks us through a way to take...
Supporting Regulation: Making a Safety Plan for Your Whole Family
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 4 of a 9 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us consider the kind of conversations we need to have with the members of our family and what kind of safety plan we might...
Supporting Regulation: Identifying Triggers
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 3 of a 9 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, helps us identify our child's triggers, including the most common ones for children who have experienced complex trauma and are in...
Supporting Regulation: Identifying the Stress Response
by Ashley Bennett, Director of Trauma-Informed Care In part 2 of a 9 part series, Ashley Bennett, our Director of Trauma Informed Care, shows us that it's by God's design that our brains and bodies alert us to experiences that are not good for us. She helps us to...
Teaching Children to Play
“He gets bored easily.” “She’s always asking me to play with her.” “He has trouble finding something to do and then just bothers …
Regulation
When we welcome a child into our home through foster care, our primary job in those early days is to work on cultivating felt-safety in …