Annette Miner, CYW, CTC-S, CYC
TLC Certified Trainer

Annette Miner is a certified Trauma and Loss Consultant Supervisor with TLC® and was awarded the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children’s “Trauma and Loss Clinical Specialist of the Year 2007 Award” for the work she does with traumatized children and their families. Annette has a Child and Youth Worker diploma from Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario Canada and is a certified member with the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Counsellors. From 1991 until 2008, Annette was a Crisis Prevention and Intervention Master Level Trainer with the Crisis Prevention Institute, in Brooklyn, WI where she gained valuable experience supporting and encouraging practitioners who were working directly with traumatized children. Her years of clinical experiences working directly with traumatized children in residential care, school settings, churches and in her private practice, have given her great insight and clinical expertise working with children and families touched by trauma. Annette’s clinical focus is faith-based, while incorporating the intervention strategies of TLC®, and this past year Annette completed the Distance Education Pastoral Counselling Program with Emerge Ministries, Akron, Ohio. Annette has had a diverse range of clinical experiences working with children, youth and their families, as well as training those who provide services to vulnerable populations. Annette is a dynamic, positive and energetic presenter whose faith and strengths based approach to interevention provides a unique alternative to traditional intervention strategies. You can reach Annette through her website at www.aminer.ca.

Some of Annette’s experiences include:

• Bluewater Family Support Services, Parkhill, ON, where she was an Intensive Support Parent and CPI trainer.
• Rebound Youth Services: Sarnia, ON, where she developed and implemented an Anti-Bullying Violence Prevention Project that incorporated a whole-school approach involving parents, administrators, teachers and students.
• Private practice, Bright’s Grove, ON, where she consults and facilitates workshops for schools, agencies, organizations and churches regarding children with special needs, behavioral issues and other related issues.
• Lakeshore Community Church, Bright’s Grove ON, where she is the Director of Family Ministries/Care and Support where she presents workshops, facilitates programs, and provides individual and group counseling for children, adolescents, parents and adults.
• Faculty advisor at Lambton College, Child and Youth Worker Program where she consults, advises and conducts evaluations for 1st year child and youth worker students in their field placements

Annette presents the following course:

Faith-Based Trauma Intervention

There is an additional complex dynamic of the trauma experience that happens when individuals of faith are met with tragedy. They not only have to deal with the normal areas that are identified through the SITCAP® model, but they also have to come to grips with what they believe happened to them from a spiritual perspective. In other words, they not only have to deal with their pain and loss, but they also have to work through what they believe God’s role is in their trauma. Underlying distorted beliefs about God tend to emerge when tragedy strikes, which add to the pain and sometimes even worsen the terror that is being experienced. This often compounds/complicates the trauma intervention process. This course will give participants background information and the tools they will need when providing trauma intervention for faith-based children/adolescents. Participants will learn how to identify and explore the child’s/adolescent’s “God-concept”… as well as how to incorporate faith-based trauma specific questions, strategies and activities into the SITCAP model. Once a child/adolescent of faith can come to a healthy resolve about God’s role in his/her trauma, he/she can begin the process of healing from the experience of the trauma.