Laurie Grimm, Family Resource/Intake Coordinator in Global Village Therapeutic Foster Care, and Janelle Ventura, social worker at Wyndham Lawn, concentrate on their answers.
Training continues in trauma treatment
Part three of training in trauma-informed treatment is under way. Recently trained were staff in Global Village North and Wraparound as well as social workers in Wyndham Lawn residential. The training is funded by two grants.
A grant of $225,000 over three years from the John R. Oishei Foundation is funding a project to address trauma in seriously emotionally disturbed youth in residential treatment. Training and research is occurring at New Directions. The grant was awarded to the Care Management Coalition of Western New York, a group of agencies serving children and families.
The work is also supported by a $40,000 grant from the Robert J. and Martha B. Fierle Foundation.
Clinicians are being trained by Ricky Greenwald, Psy.D., executive director of the Child Trauma Institute in Greenfield, Mass., and a pioneer in research and treatment of traumatized children and adolescents. Direct care staff and foster parents are being trained by Dr. Greenwald as well as by Susan A. Green, LCSW, clinical director consultant in Global Village North and clinical associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo.
Discussing an example are, from left, Michelle Hellams, social worker with Global Village; Chuck Wagner, Campus Life director at Wyndham Lawn, and Margaret Flannery, clinical director of Wraparound Programs.
February 2009