FOR LEADERS IN THE SYSTEM OF CARE

In a profession where 100% of the children served have been impacted by trauma, unique challenges arise in making decisions for the children and families served. Loryn Smith Consulting can help organizations meet outcomes, create relevant policies and procedures, and most importantly, ensure that all children are afforded the best opportunity to receive the services that optimize healing and hope.

Using best practices and trauma-informed approaches our innovative ideas can transform a sense of hopelessness into a plan of hope for tomorrow.

Services Available for Dependency Agencies:

  • Creating policies and procedures that are compliant with State and Federal Law and are trauma informed.

  • Creating a MATCH process toward identifying the most qualified families.

  • Structuring AARC Committee Hearings in a way that is trauma-informed and best meets the needs of the child.

  • Sibling decisions—what does best practice conclude?

  • Relative placements—making decisions in a trauma- informed and attachment-centered manner.

  • Hiring practices which lead to staff productivity and retention.

  • Staff retention/Team building.

  • Creating an Environment for Foster Parent Retention; review of documents, procedures and subsequent recommendations.

  • Creating processes for meeting outcomes in a trauma-informed way and complying with State/Federal guidelines.

  • Review and Assessment of Specific Cases to ensure compliance, outcomes, and risk management.

  • Trial preparation.

Trainings Available for Professionals:

  • TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention)

  • Healing through Connections

  • Creating Trauma-Informed Environments

  • Seeing Behaviors through the Lens of Trauma

  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: From Diagnosis to Effective Interventions

  • Understanding What the Research Says about Sibling Placements

  • Understanding What the Research Says about Relative Placements

  • Adoption Competency

  • Having the Adoption Conversation with Dependency Youth

  • The Importance of Attachment and its Applications to

  • Decision Making in Dependency Cases

  • Foster Parent Retention

  • Staff Retention

  • Considerations in Transracial Adoption

  • Effective Partnerships between Case Management and Foster Parents

  • Creating Effective Case Plans

  • Assessing Protective Capacity

  • Effective Assessments in Foster and Adoption Home Studies: Best Practices

  • Considerations in Identifying Families who Can Best Meet the Needs of Children needing Adoptive Placements

  • Effective Therapeutic Interventions for Children Who Have Been Impacted by Trauma

  • Best Practices in Transition Planning

  • Education and the Trauma-impacted Child

Other trainings available upon request.