During the June 26 meeting, the Task Group will:

• Finish Reviewing the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's training video "Cops, Kids & Domestic Violence."
• Using the lens of Early Childhood on the core messages, the group will also review the "Police Officer Responding to a Domestic Violence Call" tip sheet by Patricia Van Horn, Ph.D.
• Lastly, Portland State University Intern Brittany Jones will present materials from the project on mapping the Early Childhood Trauma Response System.

In the April meeting: Leslie Brown, Trauma Grant Coordinator through Children's Relief Nursery, presented the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit. The Task Group viewed at the CW Tool Kit with the lens of Early Childhood on the usefulness of this tool kit as a training tool for Child Welfare caseworkers & foster parents using the "Child Welfare Trauma Referral Tool," the Referral Flowchart & "The Essential Elements of Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice."

In the May meeting: The Task Group added suggestions to the CW Tool Kit in the area of the "Referral Flowchart to Mental Health Services" and finished with the section on "Questions for caseworkers to ask Early Childhood Mental Health Providers." The Group also viewed the NCTSN training tool "Cops, Kids & Domestic Violence" using the lens of Early Childhood.

On June 7th, Leslie Brown, Trauma Grant Coordinator through Children's Relief Nursery, presented a training to the Eugene "Trauma Healing Project" entitled "Working with Children Impacted by Domestic Violence in Caregiving Settings."

The mission of the Trauma Healing Project is to ensure any person or group in our community impacted by violence or other trauma will be supported to completely recover and heal. Care and attention will be offered and provided in ways that are culturally, developmentally, and gender appropriate; strength and empowerment based; and respectful and effective. This includes healing support for caregivers.

In this very interactive workshop, Ms. Brown presented on the issues that come up in the parent child relationship when there has been exposure to domestic violence, and how this shows up in care giver settings. She also addressed the ways children can trigger each other in groups and how caregivers' own trauma background can potentially influence their ability to respond effectively. Through experiential exercises and activities, Ms. Brown provided information and practical tools for working with children impacted by domestic violence in care-giving settings.

On May 6 & 7, the Portland, Oregon CPP Learning Collaborative participants (Leslie Brown, Debbie Bassett and Lorraine Rowlette) met with other clinicians for a fourth session focusing on developing training curriculum and materials for clinicians using the CPP model. The training was facilitated by Patricia Van Horn, Ph.D. and "train the trainer" materials were provided by the Portland, Maine Practitioners group, who have successfully led community-wide trainings for their local clinicians.

For more information about Child Parent Psychotherapy, email leslie@crn4kids.org..

A group of local community leaders in the areas of policy and funding met this Spring to focus on developing a Community-Wide Early Childhood Trauma Response System.

Their goal was to formalize a Trauma Response System for children ages 0-6 that is broad enough to include first responders (Police, Fire, Child Care Workers) and services for prevention, intervention and life preservation. They also discussed how to fund such a Trauma Response System so as to enhance its capacity to identify and intervene before trauma occurs and to respond to the needs of those traumatized.

Through a series of three meetings, the Policy Panel set the stage for the next level of work which is the fuller development of a trauma response system that meets the needs of children and families in Multnomah County. Specifically, the Panel developed a five-year implementation plan, identified an Advisory Group to provide leadership and direction for the next phase of the work, and committed resources to sustain the project during the first year of development.

Over the course of the next twelve months, the Advisory Group will:

• Identify an entity or structure (private nonprofit, local government agency) that will take on the major coordinating role in the further development of the trauma services and system.
• Provide leadership to help secure sustainable funding for the system development efforts.