Provide Safety: Be Consistent, Reliable, Predictable, Available, and Honest.
Make Connection: Be POWERFULLY Present, make connections with Child and their Family.
Empower Emotional Regulation: Coregulating with the child, don't expect them to be able to do it on their own.
Connection was one of the threads that were woven throughout the PlayFirst Summit conversations that really spoke to me: "Without connection we can not help children move forward with their growth." Providing Trauma Informed Care creates a space where children have needs to be met, not behaviours that need to be corrected.
It was Dr. Mine Conkbayir talk that really inspired me.