Programs

Developed in response to the growing need for an effective intervention to help professionals to reduce the increased incidence of compassion fatigue in helping professionals due to the corrosive impacts of pandemic COVID-19, the goal of Emotion-Focused Training for Helping Professionals (EFT-HP) is decreased levels of secondary traumatic stress, burnout or compassion fatigue and increased compassion satisfaction or resilience. EFT-HP is a 14-day online intervention. In summer 2024, there will be an app based on the program available at https://www.self-growth-institute.com/en/self-growth-institute-eng/

Self-Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (SCHC), also known as Self-Compassion in Action, is a 6-hour healthcare adaptation of Mindful Self-Compassion. This training aims to improve well-being and personal resilience in healthcare professionals or other caring professionals (e.g., teachers, family caregivers, etc.) by teaching mindful self-compassion skills to deal with distressing emotional situations as they occur at work and at home.

CE-CERT (Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma) is a set of five skills and practices that support the well-being of providers in trauma-exposed environments. The practices are founded in diverse research related to maintaining emotion regulation, or returning to emotional homeostasis, after exposure to work-related stress. The skills described within the model, and coached during consultation, are:

• Experiential engagement
• Reducing rumination
• Conscious narrative
• Reducing emotional labor
• Parasympathetic recovery

Implementation of CE-CERT includes training of the full team, additional one-day training for supervisors, and ten follow-on consultation calls to supervisors (and, optimally, to midlevel managers and senior leadership). The program has a defined manual that includes the fidelity indicators (known as MAPS, or must air points) for the training, content for follow-on consultation calls with supervisors and program leaders, requirements for trainers, and descriptions of the program and implementation process.

The Restoring Resiliency Response (RRR) protocol is a crisis debriefing model developed for use with frontline workers in child protection and other social service fields following a critical incident, such as a child fatality or violence against staff while on the job. RRR sessions are designed to help alleviate stress and anxiety associated with secondary traumatic stress issues frontline workers face following a critical incident. Individual or group sessions are facilitated by trained clinicians within 48 to 72 hours after a critical incident. Sessions do not have an investigatory stance. Focus is placed on the stress reactions currently being experienced by workers and on an individual’s existing skills, strengths, and ability to utilize support systems and past coping techniques. Each session includes education about how trauma can affect individuals and employs cognitive behavioral therapy and relaxation techniques to enhance coping. Group sessions help to improve group cohesion by normalizing the idea that everyone experiences trauma differently and may be at a different place in terms of processing and full participation.

The goal of Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) is to meet the needs of parents with very young children who expressed the desire to be a different kind of parent than the parent who raised them. GABI was developed to meet that need by bringing together groups of parents who are socially isolated and affected by disparities across multiple systems of care. GABI is designed to help parents manage stress, increase their social support network, foster secure attachment, and improve parent-child relationships. GABI was developed for parents who have experienced significant trauma, who have mental health challenges, and/or experienced removal of a child.

Indiana Family Preservation Services (INFPS) are services designed to work with families who have had a substantiated incident of abuse and/or neglect, where the department of child services/child welfare services believes the child(ren) can remain in the home with their caregiver(s) with the introduction of appropriate services to the family. These services may also be utilized in the absence of a substantiated abuse or neglect allegation if there is an active in-home case. This service shall be for the entire family.

Minnesota Parent Mentor Program (MPMP) provides support for parents involved in the Child Protection System by helping them navigate their way through what can be an overwhelming and challenging process. A Parent Mentor will work with parents for the duration of their cases with child welfare and child protection--which can range from six months to more than a year--and help them remain connected with services afterward. Due to their firsthand experience, Parent Mentors can walk parents through every step to reunification or the best possible outcome for their family. As parents pursue reunification with their children, the program’s goal is to assist them in learning and applying effective parenting skills to maintain their reunification. By having parent mentors from the same geographic and cultural area as the parents, the MPMP is designed to be intentional about increasing racial equity in the child welfare system in addition to improving the quality of life for the families they serve.

The Incredible Years® Preschool Basic Parent Training Program (Treatment) is a group-based parent curriculum based on video modeling designed to strengthen parent-child interactions and attachment; reduce harsh discipline; foster parents' ability to promote children's social, emotional, and language development; and reduce externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Parents learn how to build school readiness skills and are encouraged to partner with teachers and day care professionals so they can promote children's emotional self-regulation and social skills. Lastly, the program focuses on increasing parents' self-regulation skills and social support.

The Incredible Years® is a series of separate, multifaceted, and developmentally based curricula designed for parents, teachers, or children. The programs are designed to promote emotional and social competence and to prevent, reduce, and treat behavior and emotional problems in young children.

When The Incredible Years® was originally loaded onto the CEBC website in 2006, there were 3 curricula that targeted children ages 3-8: one for children, one for parents, and one for teachers. The CEBC staff reviewed The Incredible Years® as one program based on research that used the multiple curricula together. When evaluated that way, The Incredible Years® was rated a 1 – Well-Supported Research Evidence on the CEBC Scientific Rating Scale.

Since 2006, The Incredible Years® became more diversified and began offering many different versions targeted at specific age ranges and specialty populations. The currently available curricula can be found at https://www.incredibleyears.com/early-intervention-programs. Each curriculum has their own unique manual. The CEBC reviews programs that can be replicated and typically determines a program based on the manual used to deliver it. As the Incredible Years curricula shifted over time, the CEBC needed to revise its review to examine the currently available curricula and their corresponding research.

The CEBC staff worked with The Incredible Years® staff to choose the three curricula that are the most frequently implemented. The Incredible Years submitted completed questionnaires for each curriculum and the CEBC staff reviewed the content and research. As of March 2024, all three curricula have been reviewed and added to the CEBC website and are linked below:

• The Incredible Years® Classroom Dinosaur Child Program (Prevention) - for ages 3-8
• The Incredible Years® Preschool Basic Parent Program (Treatment) - for ages 3-6
• The Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management Program – for ages 3-8

Building Healthy Children (BHC) is designed to provide concrete support and manualized interventions to young families at heightened risk for maladaptive parenting practices, child maltreatment, and poor developmental outcomes. BHC is designed to be a preventive intervention that addresses enhanced risks of young and socioeconomically disadvantaged parents and their children. Three intervention models (Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents [IPT-A], Child-Parent Psychotherapy [CPP], and Parents as Teachers [PAT]) were incorporated into BHC to address additional risk factors associated with child maltreatment, poor parenting practices, and maladaptive outcomes in children. These risk factors include:

• Parent–child insecure attachment
• Parental insensitivity
• Parental trauma history
• Child trauma history
• Maternal depression and low social support
• Limited knowledge of appropriate developmental expectations.

The Incredible Years® Classroom Dinosaur Child Program (Prevention) is used by teachers as a prevention program for an entire classroom of students. The curriculum is delivered 2-3 times a week by teachers in the classroom in 20- to 30-minute circle time lessons, followed by small group practice activities and promotion of skills throughout the school day. Program topics include doing your best in school, understanding feelings, problem-solving, anger management, friendship skills, and how to talk with friends. The program includes letters for teachers to send home with suggested activities parents can do with their children to reinforce the classroom learning and promote parent involvement in classroom learning. The program includes lesson plans for 3 levels so that teachers can choose lessons based on children’s developmental age (Level 1: ages 3-5: Level 2: ages 5-6: Level 3: ages 7-8).

TRE-ADD Respite provides a break for families and caregivers of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) whose behavior and/or complex needs make typically offered respite programs inaccessible. The home uses an ABA approach with all aspects of programming with an emphasis on communication, life skills and recreational activities. The program is designed to deliver enjoyable programming and give parents relief for a few hours to a few days.

Treatment-based respite services are also available to children or adolescents from 6 to 17 years of age (up to 18th birthday). Services are available to the children/families with the most need first.

TRE-ADD Respite also offers support to children and adolescents who are either in crisis or are part of a family who requires emergency care. The services are arranged through the family’s case coordinator.