Developed by the Institute of Childhood Trauma and Attachment, Feeling Explorers is a Social and Emotional Learning program for children in grades 1, 2, and 3. Children’s mental wellness is promoted through the delivery of 10 play-based, skill-building sessions. The Institute was invited to pilot......
Although the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their prevalence in society are now well understood, there are many sectors where that information has yet to penetrate. One is the world of performance athletes, where there is very little research on the subject. Yet......
Do you sometimes wonder what a specific skill you’ve learned looks like in practice, what words you could use with a client, or how a more experienced therapist would handle a specific situation? The Institute of Childhood Trauma and Attachment is excited to share that we......
Creating a Safe Space for a Child’s Story of Trauma Grade eight is a difficult enough year without the added assignment of a victim impact statement. Hard enough without waking up at night in tears from nightmares of hands on you again, or the sudden......
Institute director Leticia Gracia was a featured panelist at the 2024 Shelter Movers Gala on April 16 2024. Hosted by Anna Maria Tremonti and featuring guests such as Margaret Atwood and some of Toronto’s most prominent socialites, the gala raised $900,000 for Shelter Movers, a......
An article co-authored by Institute manager, Anna Rupert, has been awarded the Postgraduate Student Project Prize 2023 from the Irish Association of Speech Language Therapists. Anna co-authored the article with two colleagues in Ireland, Maria Lotty, and Norma O’Leary who was a postgraduate student at the......
A recent Toronto.com article featured the Institute’s groundbreaking Preschool Speech & Language Trauma Screening Program, with interviews with director Leticia Gracia and operations manager Anna Rupert. The program is using the Institute’s own CASTER™ 0-5 trauma screening tool to assess the more than 700 preschool......