Join us in San Antonio to learn the latest in trauma-informed care during our 4-day trauma training and certification seminar. Trauma has a profound effect on children. It can impact their lives for years, causing them to relive pain and anguish on a daily basis. Fortunately, there is an answer. A solution that provides you the tools and expertise to deliver effective, trauma-informed care and make a lasting difference in a child’s life. And it begins with TLC. Click here for more information.

From Trauma to Resilience:
Short-Term Help, Long-Term Gains

Today's educators and childcare professionals are on the front lines of a battle they may not even know they're in: the fight against trauma in children. No doubt you've seen evidence of it yourself: the "unreachable" boy who doesn't respond to any kind of treatment or therapy. The "bad" girl who persists in disruptive, negative behavior despite all-out efforts to help her. The truth is, trauma in children manifests itself in behaviors that defy logic, reason and the best intentions of teachers, counselors and social workers.

The issue is bigger than anyone realized. It wasn't until 1990 that TLC identified childhood trauma as the root cause of behavior issues that were beyond the reach of traditional cognitive therapies.

Today, TLC training programs are in place in more than 3,000 schools, community-based programs, treatment centers and childcare facilities across North America and internationally, and are giving parents, teachers and childcare professionals the early intervention tools and techniques it takes to turn young lives – and trauma-related behaviors–around. Click here to download From Trauma to Resilience: Short-Term Help, Long-Term Gains booklet to learn more about TLC.


TLC's own, Caelan Kuban will present for Children's Mental Health Grand Rounds (CMHGR) on May 20th.  For more information click here to download their brochure or visit their website at www.vceonline.org. Attendance at this morning presentation does not count toward TLC Certification.




The theme for this year’s Childhood Trauma Practitioner’s Assembly is: Supporting Children of Deployed Parents: Lessons Learned–Helpful Strategies. This four-day conference, July 13-16, 2010 at Macomb ISD Education Center, will focus on providing practitioners with a variety of practical strategies for those who work with military families via 3-hour workshops. If you don't work with military families you can attend Level-1 and Level-2 TLC Certification courses as well as other 3-hour workshops on various trauma and loss subjects.  Click here to learn more.


The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children

TLC's mission is to bring out the best in every traumatized child by creating environments where children can flourish.

  • Currently 5,000 TLC Certified Trauma and Loss School Specialists and Clinical Specialists provide TLC interventions and resources to children, adolescents, families, schools and communities daily.
  • Published evidence based research outcomes support the value of TLC school and agency based programs.
  • For the past 20 years TLC has provided its Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized, Children, Adolescents and Parents (SITCAP)® interventions following such incidents as the Gulf War in Kuwait, bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma, Wedgewood Baptist Church killings in Texas, 9/11 in New York and Washington, D.C., the tsunami in Sri Lanka, hurricanes Katrina and Rita, killing of school staff in the presence of students in Iowa and Texas.
  • Over 50,000 professionals have participated in TLC trainings; thousands have give testimony
  • A program of Starr Commonwealth, an international leader in transformational programs for children, families, schools and communities since 1913.
  • In support of the 2009 proposed Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) diagnostic category which supports childhood trauma as a serious developmental life experience not adequately defined by the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

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