Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff

Date

2011

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ACS-NYU Children’s Trauma Institute

Abstract

This manual describes a project undertaken by the ACS-NYU Children’s Trauma Institute (CTI) to mitigate the impact of STS among child protective staff in New York City, and thereby increase staff job satisfaction, resilience, optimism, selfcare and social support, and decrease staff attrition, stress reactivity and burnout. The Children’s Trauma Institute is a collaboration between the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), New York City’s public child welfare agency, and the New York University Langone Medical Center’s Family Trauma Research Program. The CTI’s mission is to partner with child welfare stakeholders and use trauma-related knowledge in order to improve child welfare practice and outcomes on both the individual and system levels..

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Keywords

child protection workers, secondary traumatic stress, resilience

Citation

ACS-NYU Children’s Trauma Institute (2011). Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff. Author.

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