The Impact of Trauma on Child Development
Do you care for children & youth in hard places, but you're not sure if you are making a difference? You can intentionally be part of their journey towards healing and restoration.
More than half of Canadian children & youth experience trauma yearly. Trauma is not a past event but is holistically carried in their present, impacting development.
Come for an introduction to: identifying trauma and its impact on development, understanding behaviour, reducing anxiety, learning best practices, avoiding triggers, and empathizing more.
Dr. Alison Wells-Dyck
Dr. Alison Wells-Dyck is a Trauma Care training Associate with CareImpact. She has worked with a diversity of children and adolescents over the past 35 years as: an early childhood educator, classroom teacher, school guidance counsellor, learning support teacher, post-secondary instructor, and children’s ministry leader. Alison is an adoptive mom, and “grandma Al” to six grandkids. She has a passion for working with kids from hard places and seeing every child belong. Alison lives in Winnipeg with her husband Allan.
Cindy Geddert
Cindy Geddert is a Trauma Care training Associate with CareImpact. She has spent over 30 years working with children, youth and families in camp ministry, youth ministry, counselling, training foster parents in trauma-competent care, and as a homeschooling mom working with community children and her own. She holds an MA in counselling and is presently an art therapy student for working with children in care. She and her husband Vic are therapeutic foster parents and live in Winnipeg.