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title: "Steps Toward Change: Replacing Trauma Bonds with Healing Relationships"
description: "**Summary:**This one-hour training will allow participants to better understand the links between childhood trauma and neglect, the child welfare system, and sexual exploitation.   **Application: **Participants can use the questions below to guide discussion about the video: - What makes children…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/adoption-competence/steps-toward-change-replacing-trauma-bonds-with-healing-relationships/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Adoption Competent Mental Health
tags:
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Mental health professionals
  - Video
  - Webinar
---

# Steps Toward Change: Replacing Trauma Bonds with Healing Relationships

**Summary:**This one-hour training will allow participants to better understand the links between childhood trauma and neglect, the child welfare system, and sexual exploitation.
  

**Application: **Participants can use the questions below to guide discussion about the video:

- What makes children involved in child welfare more vulnerable?
- How will poor attachment increase risk and the trauma bond between the child and their perpetrator?
- As caregivers, how can we help children heal from the trauma of trafficking? 

 

**Source: **National Foster Parent Association

 

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