TLC Director
Caelan Kuban, LMSW
Caelan Kuban, LMSW, is Director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC), a program of the Starr Institute for Training. Caelan provides training across the country to professionals working with traumatized children and families and has been called an excellent teacher and passionate trainer providing workshops where participants leave feeling energized and inspired to work with at-risk and traumatized youth. Click here to a brief excerpt from Caelan's ADHD & Trauma presentation.
Some testimonials about Caelan include:
- My staff loved Caelan’s training today. We want more! She has a way of presenting that makes the difficult content easy to grasp.
- This is the best training I have ever attended in my 20 years in the school district.
- Caelan’s training was extremely informative and interesting, presented in a way that was easy to understand.
- As a lecturer myself, I can say that you are one of the very best trainers - I was so glad to attend your lecture about trauma in school-age children that I could not resist to give my feedback - you are an amazing trainer! Gohar Taj Imam
- I found your explanation of the impact of trauma on the brain to be the most helpful explanation I've received - thank you! Jeremy Fulwiler
- Thanks so much for coming to our school yesterday, Caelan. Your presentation was great, and the parents really responded to it. Lots of positive feedback on the evaluations. They only wished it had been longer. Thanks for all the materials as well. I'm excited to get to use the resiliency materials at work with our students. TLC is my favorite program out there, and I use techniques from it even with children who are in trauma. It was great for our parents to be able to get some knowledge as well about trauma and grief, and to know what they could do. Kristina Wolff, LLMSW, Cesar Chavez Academy School Counselor, Detroit, MI
As a Certified Trauma Consultant-Supervisor, she provides trauma assessment and short-term trauma intervention for children and adolescents utilizing trauma informed and evidence based practices including TLC’s SITCAP® model.
Caelan has coordinated and completed two evidence-based research studies; Children of Today with at-risk school-aged children in Taylor, Michigan and Restoring Hope and Resiliency with adjudicated youth in Ohio and Georgia. Both studies showed outstanding, statistically significant results across trauma subscales and mental health categories. Caelan is the author of Zero to Three: A Handbook of Trauma Interventions, One Minute Trauma Interventions, A Time for Resilience, and numerous other articles, in such journals as the School Social Work Journal, Children and Schools, Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, Reclaiming Children and Youth.
Caelan is currently pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology at Cal Southern University. Caelan and her husband, Mark, live in Royal Oak, Michigan with their daughters, Luscia and Maren.
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Email Caelan Kuban at [email protected]