Adding Value Through Partnerships!

RFK doesn't know everything, but other people and organizations are experts in areas we are not.

This year RFK is Partnering with Texas Christian University to provide Trauma Care training known as Trust-Based Relational Intervention or TBRI.  

TBRI was designed for the families of children from Foster and Adoptive homes who are struggling with their past traumatic events.  

This training will help each volunteer in their approach to the children and their communication.  

It is a powerful tool to help children use their voice instead of their behaviors to feel safe and accomplish life.  This spring, we are training nearly 200 volunteers in a 6-hour TBRI class.

In January we started off our learning with a 2-Day TBRI training In Texas at TCU.

            

TBRI Begins with understanding the brain and how a traumatized child literally thinks and therefore acts differently.   

Traumatized children develop survival skills to make it through life.  Some of those survival skills may be lying, manipulating, stealing or hitting.    

We certainly do not want these skills developed any further, however, we often fail to realize how embedded these skills are in the life of the child who is simply trying to survive. 

Then we show up and try to correct these skills without understanding or helping to develop new skills through trust and time.  

As one TBRI Instructor stated, "Don't you dare take away my survival skills, unless you replace them with something else"!

If you would like to learn more about TBRI, here is a link to a free youtube video introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vjVpRffgHQ&feature=youtu.be