Program Delivery Option: Adoptive Home

Children who are experiencing grief and posttraumatic stress

Young adults between the ages 17 and 22 who are leaving the foster care, juvenile justice, and/or mental health systems

Parents (e.g., birth parents, foster parents, kinship parents, adoptive parents, etc.) and caregivers of children who have histories of relational trauma or have experienced early adversity such as maltreatment, abuse, neglect, multiple home placements, and violence.

Caregivers of children 2-17 years old in the middle class or lower socioeconomic level

Children 6 years of age and younger with significant behavior and/or emotional problems including trauma and their primary caretaker(s)

Adults who have experienced trauma; has been used with teens and children ages 6 and up

Staff and volunteers of schools and other youth-serving organizations, parents/caregivers, and concerned adults

Groups of caregivers (parents, foster/adoptive parents, and early learning providers) of infants, toddlers, and children younger than 6 years old; can be used universally or in targeted fashion through serving high-risk populations such as Early Head Start participants, teen moms, or parents with irritable babies

Families with children/teens with disorders of attachment and trauma. Typically adopted and foster children, those who meet the DSM-V criteria for Reactive Attachment Disorder, and trauma-related diagnoses, and those who meet the clinical criteria for Complex Trauma (aka Developmental Trauma Disorder)

Families who had been reported to the child welfare system for child maltreatment including physical and emotional maltreatment in addition to child neglect; may be used as a court-ordered parenting program