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Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Training

This training makes TBRI® accessible to professionals, church organizations, and caregivers.

Communities are full of hurting children. Some physical and emotional hurts are easier to recognize than others. A behavior that may be seen as willful disobedience could be a learned survival tactic that a child is demonstrating.

Trust Based Relational Intervention® is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable, hurting children. Because of their histories, children who have experienced adversity, early harm, toxic stress, and/or trauma have changes in their bodies, brains, behaviors, and belief systems. While a variety of parenting strategies may be successful in typical circumstances, children with histories of harm need caregiving that meets their unique needs and addresses the whole child.

TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children.

  • TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors.
  • TBRI® is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.

Who might benefit from this training?

Anyone who serves minors. TBRI® is used worldwide in homes, residential facilities, group homes, schools, camps, schools, juvenile justice facilities, courts, with survivors of sex trafficking, in faith communities, courts, with law enforcement, in clinical practices and beyond.

In this training participants will learn

  •  TBRI® Empowering Principles to address physical needs,
  • Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors.
  • A discussion on disarming the fear response and building trust will be included.
  • The IDEAL (immediately, directly, efficient, action based, level) Response© will be offered as a new way to react to a behavior that needs correction.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the “Five B’s of Trauma”
  2. List the three TBRI Principles and their associated strategies
  3. Learn how to use IDEAL Response© to respond to behaviors
  4. Recognize the difference between willful disobedience and survival strategies

The Institute for Shelter Care provides this training to groups upon request.

Length of training:
Nine-hour format: In addition to teaching TBRI principles, this format includes a three-hour session on vulnerable children and the long-term impacts on health, well-being and behavior. Preferably taught in a three-hour afternoon session followed by a six-hour training session the following day.

Six-hour format: This format focuses primarily on TBRI principles and discussion on disarming fear.

Mode: This training is taught in-person

Cost: The nine-hour training is $1,500 + trainer’s travel expenses (when applicable)
The six-hour training is $1,000 + trainer’s travel expenses (when applicable)

 

Linda Blackiston
Certified TBRI® Trainer
Institute for Shelter Care

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