Promotion of trauma-informed strategies throughout the childcare center, school, and community, including:

• Multimedia ACEs and Trauma-Informed Care awareness;
• PACEs (Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences), toxic stress, and trauma education;
• Parent, teacher, and caregiver workshops, role modeling, and mental health consultation;
• Free, online access to A Way of Being with Children workshops and curriculum;
• Classroom-based screening and observations, support, and groups;
• Classroom-based social-emotional wellness curriculum, including mindfulness activities, play, and books that promote expression of feelings and self-regulation;
• Information and resources for schools and communities on PACEs, through resources and our toolkit; and
• Leadership and community-wide training, advocacy, and awareness efforts through our Fighting ACEs Initiative.

Center for Child Counseling's A Way of Being With Children: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Building Resilience provides the foundation for our approach with parents, teachers, and other adult caregivers.

Targeted, early intervention and support for children and families identified through screening and observation, including:

• Small Group Play Therapy, using Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), an evidenced-based model.
• Targeted parent, caregiver, and teacher workshops.
• Individualized classroom support, crisis intervention, and mental health consultation to address specific behaviors and concerns.
• SNAP ® (Stop Now and Plan), an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral model for teaching children struggling with behavioral issues, and their caregivers, effective emotional regulation, self-control, and problem-solving skills.
• Continual identification of needs, with triage, and referral.
• Online and on-site A Way of Being with Children workshops, downloadable and printed tip sheets, videos, and resources to promote positive adult-child relationships.

Our work is based on decades of research; working in partnership with the families, schools, and communities we serve, and interacting with children in their most natural state of being - when they are at play. We often say, "we don't have to wait for a child to fall apart emotionally before we do something." Early intervention is at the core of our approach, with hands-on strategies and learning, based in childcare centers, schools, and aftercare programs where children spend most of their time.

Support and Evidence-Based Mental Health and Trauma Treatment for Children, Parents, Caregivers, and Families, including:

• School-Based Individual, Group, and Family Therapy
• Office, Community, and/or Home-Based Individual and Family Therapy
• Appropriate Referrals and Linkage for Physical, Speech, Occupational and Other Developmental Concerns and Basic Needs.

Our ABC-IT Approach

ABC-IT is our comprehensive, integrated therapy (IT) approach to the major domains of childhood functioning:

• Affect (feelings),
• Behavior (doing), and
• Cognition (thinking).

ABC-IT is a therapy model which integrates Child-Centered Play Therapy with age-appropriate Cognitive skills for modifying their beliefs, identifying and correcting distorted thinking while learning to relate to others in different ways, and Behavioral Therapy, in which undesirable behaviors are replaced with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement.

Evidence-Based Treatment Models

Depending on presenting issues and needs, our therapists have training and supervision in an array of evidence-based treatment models, including Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Filial Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).