Southwest Iowa Drug Endangered Children’s Conference

Thriving Families Alliance presents a day-long conference on Addressing the Needs of Children & Teens with a History of Prenatal or Postnatal Trauma.

In the past two decades, the number of children born into families affected by substance abuse has grown exponentially.  These children and teens often suffer from both prenatal and postnatal trauma through prenatal exposure to licit and illicit substances and lack of positive early childhood attachment relationships.  They likely are disrupting classrooms, filling the child welfare system, and challenging the health care system with behavioral difficulties that defy classic treatment approaches.   This program will discuss the neurobiology of prenatal and postnatal trauma, describe the behavioral dysregulation that results, and present strategies that can support appropriate behavior and learning at home and in the classroom.

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