Business as Usual…Except more Sorrow and Resolve
For nearly 30 years ATN has been in the trenches with children significantly impacted by early childhood trauma…now understood as developmental trauma, attachment trauma, relationship trauma. Our roots are working with children who struggled due to very early abuse, neglect, maltreatment – including abandonment, witnessing violence and horrific mistreatment. But the truth is, many children […]
Let’s Meet…
Click on their pictures/names below to meet a new child each week in June. Donate Now Help provide more healing resources to children in their families, schools and communities. Join us throughout June to hear the stories of these children, inspired by the thousands of children ATN has served since 1995. Now more than ever, […]
On Being an Anti-Racist White Mom
The Atlanta shootings It’s been a few weeks since the news broke about the shootings at 3 spas in the Atlanta area. Watching this unfold on my TV, sitting in my Atlanta suburban home, I was confounded. Now…so many days later…I still am. Was the shooter racist? Was this a hate crime? The news media […]
4 Sparking weeks for ATN!
ATN is the chosen non-profit to help celebrate “4 weeks of Sparking” with Epiphany, the creative consultants who have long helped with ATN’s website, social media, branding and other communications needs. Let’s Spark An Epiphany! 50 Weeks of Sparking is a year-long campaign to celebrate Epiphany’s CEO, Christa Nelson, and her 50th birthday. Because Christa works […]
Listen to Your NonProfit Life Podcast
Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director was the featured non-profit leader of Episode 9 of Your NonProfit Life. Listen in to hear how ATN has survived, evolved, and ultimately thrived these past 25 years, and why Julie takes this “work of the heart” so seriously. My guest’s life changed completely when she and her husband, already […]
Grants to fund Online Directory & Parenting Resources
The Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc. (ATN) is honored to receive a grant through the Conrad N. Hilton foundation for improving and developing resources for children and families impacted by early childhood trauma. The $250,000 grant will be focused on accomplishing two things in 2020: The development of a comprehensive, searchable directory of trauma-informed professionals […]
Trauma-Informed Resources Available During COVID-19 Quarantine
ATN knows that the social distancing going on now can be VERY unsettling for our children impacted by trauma. Their early adversities cause them heightened anxiety when there are changes and when the adults in their world seem tense. Yet, we also have opportunities to increase connection, enhance our relationship with our children and model […]
Rupture and Repair: Emotions, Attunement, and Attachment
“Why do some children become sad, withdrawn, insecure, or angry, whereas others become happy, curious, affectionate, and self-confident?” developmental psychologist Edward Tronick, Ph.D. asked in a 1989 paper called “Emotions and Emotional Communication in Infants.” The answer lies in large part with the quality of emotional communication, or attunement, between parent and child. We don’t get […]