The Original Framework Since 2015 Founded by Sonja L. Howell, PhD
Adrian, Michigan, United States
Trauma & Child Welfare
Trauma and child welfare involvement can impact every aspect of family life, including behavior, trust, communication, routines, and relationships. Children who have experienced instability, loss, conflict, neglect, abuse, or other challenging situations may react in ways that can be confusing or difficult for their caregivers.
Trauma & Child Welfare offers essential parent education to help caregivers understand how both past and present experiences shape a child’s emotions, behavior, and sense of safety.
Through this program, parents explore practical strategies for child behavior support, enabling them to build trust, strengthen connections, establish predictable routines, respond to challenging behaviors with greater empathy, and deliver both support and accountability.
The ultimate goal is to guide families toward greater stability while equipping parents with tools to navigate challenging situations, child-serving systems, and evolving family needs with compassion, consistency, and confidence.
Trauma and Child Welfare
- Understanding how trauma can affect behavior, emotions, and relationships
- Recognizing behavior as a form of communication
- Creating greater emotional and physical safety
- Building trust through consistency and connection
- Using predictable routines to support stability
- Responding to challenging behavior without escalating conflict
- Supporting children who have experienced loss, instability, or major change
- Navigating child welfare and other child-serving systems
- Balancing compassion with healthy boundaries and accountability
- Strengthening family relationships during difficult circumstances
TRAUMA & CHILD WELFARE Resources
Tranquil Parenting: Child Welfare Matters
Trauma and child welfare involvement can impact every aspect of family life, including behavior, trust, communication, routines, and relationships. Children who have experienced instability, loss, conflict, neglect, abuse, or other challenging situations may react in ways that can be confusing or difficult for their caregivers.
Trauma & Child Welfare offers essential parent education to help caregivers understand how both past and present experiences shape a child’s emotions, behavior, and sense of safety.
Through this program, parents explore practical strategies for child behavior support, enabling them to build trust, strengthen connections, establish predictable routines, respond to challenging behaviors with greater empathy, and deliver both support and accountability.
The ultimate goal is to guide families toward greater stability while equipping parents with tools to navigate challenging situations, child-serving systems, and evolving family needs with compassion, consistency, and confidence.
Building Bridges: Trauma-Informed Parenting
Explore Building Bridges: Trauma-Informed Parenting, a transformative guide that navigates the intersection of journaling, self-care, and resilience-building while offering essential child behavior support. Dr. Howell unveils innovative strategies for understanding, reflecting, and nurturing holistic well-being in caregivers, parents, and children alike. This groundbreaking exploration not only equips parents with tools for parent education but also enables them to cultivate profound connections with their children through engaging activities, creative solutions, and the collaborative creation of T-IPS plans. The journey towards healing within these pages is authored by Dr. Sonja L. Howell, the founder of the Transformative Mindset Instructional Design (TMID).
Child Alienation: Reconnecting with Lost Wings
This comprehensive book is an invaluable resource for individuals impacted by child alienation, including alienated parents, alienators, legal professionals, therapists, and anyone committed to combating this phenomenon. It serves as an essential guide for parent education and child behavior support, providing a framework for understanding and addressing these critical issues.
With practical guidance, insightful strategies, and engaging activities, it equips readers with the tools they need to navigate the complexities of parental conflict and work toward reconciliation.
Meticulously crafted through empirical evidence and parental insights, this book ensures a comprehensive understanding of child alienation and offers practical solutions for those affected by both child alienation and parental alienation.
Breaking the Cycle: Understanding and Addressing Domestic Violence
This book offers a holistic approach to aiding both survivors and abusers in their path toward recovery, which is essential for effective child behavior support and parent education.
Through the innovative Effective Action Plan outlined within, readers will find invaluable resources, including a 10-step safety plan, a 10-step recovery plan, and a 12-step anger management plan. These tools are designed to empower individuals to break free from the cycle of abuse and rebuild their lives with confidence and resilience, ultimately enhancing their ability to provide effective child behavior support.
Additionally, the book incorporates a range of activities and techniques from the transformative mindset instructional design (TMID), providing comprehensive tools and strategies to navigate toward empowerment and lasting change while also enriching parent education.
Broken Bridges: A Six-Step Solution to End Domestic Violence
Discover the unfiltered accounts of parents courageously sharing their needs and experiences regarding child behavior support. Explore the shortcomings of existing support systems that fail to effectively address parent education.
Begin transforming your organization with the Bridges of Change process, a six-step solution to end domestic violence while helping to rebuild bridges within communities.
This book serves as a comprehensive documentation of the findings from Dr. Howell's 2022 embedded single case study up to now, focusing on aspects that delineate what did not work in support systems, particularly in child behavior support, and what needs to change in parent education.
Bridges and Boots: Strategy Shift
Experience the profound shift offered by Bridges and Boots—a transformative mindset pathway guiding individuals through the cycle of healing and effective child behavior support.
As you lace up your boots, you symbolically reclaim your power and embrace a future illuminated by strategic resilience. Dr. Howell's 2022 case study provides foundational insights into parent education, shaping this innovative approach to building bridges.
Join our supportive community on this journey from surviving to thriving, step by step, toward newfound strength and empowerment.