Training for educators to support children affected by trauma
Set up for Success: An Early Childhood Strategy for the ACT includes providing training to early childhood education and care educators to support children affected by trauma.
The Education Directorate engaged Australian Childhood Foundation
to develop a suite of resources for the early childhood education and care sector to support workforce capability in trauma responsive practice.
This trauma informed training is designed to build understanding, strengthen existing practices, and create networks in early childhood education and care to enhance the learning, development, and wellbeing of all children.
Online Training Modules: Trauma Responsive Practice in Education and Care
The online training package is 11 modules exploring understandings of trauma and practical strategies for responding to children. The training is open to all educators for a small cost. More information about the training including how to access it is in the information flyer 
(160kb).
Relational Exchange blog – sharing trauma informed practice ideas and strategies
The Relational Exchange blog provides articles to support the ongoing application of learning about trauma responsive practice and address current issues as they arise.
- Article 1: Reflecting on trauma responsive practice in education (295kb)
- Article 2: Responding to some frequently asked questions about the impact of relational trauma on young children (322kb)
- Article 3: Commencing with calm, not chaos (260kb)
- Article 4: The science of self care (270kb)
- Article 5: Relationship based practice (220kb)
- Article 6: Relational Exchange - Tricky transitions (217kb)
- Article 7: Auditing our trauma responsive practice (255kb)
- Article 7: Practice Tool (359kb)
- Article 8: Building team support for the implementation of trauma responsive practice (336kb)
- Article 9: Why building a team around the child is important (230kb)
- Article 10: Responding to behaviour (250kb)
- Article 11: Looking beyond behaviours (403kb)
- Article 12: Keeping predictability and routine in the lives of children in the context of COVID-19 (435kb)
- Article 13: Transition and change: silent predators that need to be tamed (362kb)
Webinar sessions
The Australian Childhood Foundation has developed a free webinar series to support trauma responsive practice in early childhood education and care. All are welcome to access the webinars, which are scaffolded to different roles in early childhood education and care and children’s learning needs. There are 25 webinars included in the series.
