Nepantlah 2024-2025
Session Overview
Children birth to five are disproportionately exposed to interpersonal and collective trauma. This talk will review how trauma impacts young children, their primary relationships and their communities, and will provide concrete ways all providers can support their healing. Strategies will be based on the internationally-recognized and evidence-based treatment model, Child-Parent Psychotherapy.
Learning Objective 1
Identify 3 ways trauma impacts children birth to five and their primary relationships
Learning Objective 2
Identify 2 Child-Parent Psychotherapy informed strategies to support families
Learning Objective 3
Identify 2 ways to support parents of young children
BIO
Dr. Vilma Reyes is the Director of Training and Clinical Services at University of California, San Francisco in the Child Trauma Research Program. Since 2009, she has been providing Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) services, training, clinical supervision, consultation and coordinating community-based mental health outreach services and evaluation. She is a national trainer in CPP, an evidence-based family treatment for young children exposed to trauma that has extensive national and international dissemination, with more than 2000 practitioners across 36 states in the US and 3 continents. In addition to her Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Reyes has also earned a Master of Arts in Education and has experience offering consultation, supervision, and training in trauma-informed systems in school-based settings. Dr. Reyes is an immigrant from Peru and is devoted to increasing access to trauma-informed services for Latine immigrant families. She has developed an expertise on the intersection of immigration and trauma; with a focus on asylum seekers and refugees exposed to armed conflict, systemic oppression, and racism.