Adoption & Trauma: Things are Better…but not yet Great
Reflecting on ATN’s 30th anniversary and my 16 years as Executive Director always leads me to the observation of how much has changed since the 1990s when it comes to our understanding of early childhood trauma, attachment disorders and what children and families need. Like many of my colleagues at ATN, I walked into this […]
Resources to Help Distressed Children
Children are living in challenging times these days – natural disasters, wars, unsafe neighborhoods…the list seems to get bigger instead of smaller. For children in the US there are two unique situations that can cause significant trauma that are sadly occuring frequently — ICE raids and school shootings. Several have reached out to ATN asking […]
Parenting Track: Building Resilient Communities for Children Conference 2025
Plenary Session: Changing How We See People Changes People Plenary Speaker: Robyn Gobbel, MSW For 30 years, the Attachment & Trauma Network has been committed to supporting families of children impacted by early childhood trauma. This track is full of expertise, compassion, understanding and strategies for anyone caring for a child with trauma-based challenges and […]
Standing Strong
Parents and Caregivers, join us for our Standing Strong Conference September 13-15, 2021 – Virtual This conference is designed for parents & caregivers of children impacted by trauma or struggling with attachment challenges, anxiety or neurodiversity that impacts their learning. Helping our children get the supports, services and care that better enable their learning is […]
Focusing on Attachment: What Else I Didn’t Know
What happens once you know? What comes after “you don’t know what you don’t know,” anyway? Well, now, I think it’s “when you know better, you do better,” but that is now, not then. Back then, it took several steps. First, I had to grasp that I had more to figure out about my amazingly […]
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
“You don’t know what you don’t know” In my parent group for those whose children think differently, a favorite phrase is “you don’t know what you don’t know.” This phrase has come to reassure me as I look back over the years. I carried guilt that I could never do enough and worried that I […]
It’s a Pandemic…So Why is My Child So Calm?
Seriously…I don’t get it In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, some parents have asked ATN, “Why is my child so well-behaved?” They are parenting a child impacted by early trauma, and their experience has been that change often heightens the child’s reactive behaviors (more anger, acting-out, raging, withdrawal, etc.) Yet some parents report that […]
Home School in a Stay-Home World
Blog Manager’s Note: Today’s post is about this strange new world in which we all find ourselves learning how to home school. If you’re like me, the possibility had never even crossed your mind in the days and years leading up to COVID-19! As part of our series on coping with the pandemic, ATN Trauma […]
Activities for the Social Distancing Era
Blog manager’s note: Welcome to the third installment of our Coping with Coronavirus series! This comes to us from long-time ATN Angel Jane Samuel, who shares some activities we can do with and for our kids…and ourselves. I said to my husband the other day, “Life is too much to grasp now. The reality of this […]
Making a Difference in a Time of Dis-Ease
The rise of dis-ease Over the last weeks, we have awakened daily to the rising of dis-ease. The blurry edge between fact and fabrication has brought us to question our questions. It has activated the sort of fear that causes toilet paper to be prized ahead of reason and parity. It has let us feel […]