Checking Emotions
Regulation activities can help to bring your energy up or down and keep your bodies and emotions feeling comfortable. Activities include deep breathing exercises, squeezing a stress ball, doodling or drawing, to name a few.
The Casey Foundation and the Justice Resource Institute developed ARC Reflections, a training curriculum to develop foster parents and caregivers’ understanding of traumatic stress, increase their own emotional regulation and provide tools to support their parenting skills. This orientation document gives facilitators tips on implementing ARC Reflections and additional handouts with instructions for training.
In addition to this document, the ARC Reflections curriculum includes detailed facilitator guides, training presentations, a case manager guide, implementation guide, Olivia’s story, sample pre- and post-surveys and feedback forms.
As facilitators prepare to implement the ARC Reflections training, they need to review the implementation guide and work with their co-facilitators to understand their strengths and strategize about how to handle any challenges that might come up during the nine sessions.
