TCIF Update: Trainer Support Connecting Concepts and Enhancing Skills

TCIF trainers must have a deeper understanding of how the essential concepts, principles, and skills in TCIF are interwoven in order to assist staff in their understanding and ability to assist a child. The essential concepts and principles in TCIF influence the application of strategies when supporting children before, during, and after a crisis The update, Trainer Support—Connecting Concepts and Enhancing Skills, is designed to help agency certified TCI trainers identify the connections between concepts in the 4th edition of TCIF and enhance their ability to demonstrate skills during the training.

Participants will be able to:

• Describe the connections between key concepts such and skills used in crisis de-escalation and recovery such as active listening, emotional first aid, and the LSI.
• Demonstrate non-verbal and the eliciting and encouraging techniques of active listening to encourage a child to talk
• Describe and demonstrate empathic responses
• Demonstrate presenting behavior support techniques and showing an example of what the technique would look like
• Describe how the adult becomes a source of support and strength for a child when giving emotional first aid
• Demonstrate being a calm presence – co-regulation strategies
• Demonstrate the “Explore” step of the LSI
• Demonstrate the LSI

Only suitable for TCIF trainers to attend.

Bring TCIF Activity Guide and Reference Guide