Therapeutic Coaching
Foster, Adoption, Kinship and Bio parents can receive one-on-one therapeutic coaching to help heal from burn-out and secondary trauma.
Respite Opportunities
Seventh Day will use their networking, through Bridge the Gap alliance, to help Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship families connect to respite opportunities.
Self-Care Scholarship
Foster, Adoption and Kinship families can apply for a monthly self-care scholarship that can go towards self-care activities.
Seventh Day is a nonprofit with services set up to surround Foster, Adoptive and Kinship families with consistent rest through professional mental health coaching, respite opportunities and a self-care scholarship.
Seventh Day’s vision is to provide a space for Foster, Adoptive, Kinship Parents to take care of themselves and provide healing from secondary trauma and burnout via mental health services, respite opportunities and a self-care scholarship. We know then, healthy caregivers, can do the hard work of healing children with trauma, through healthy safe relationships.
“All too often the caregivers work in a difficult, resource-limited situation. The children may present with a host of problems (due to their own trauma), that can overwhelm their caregivers and treaters. The pain and helplessness of these children can be passed on to those around them. Listening to children talk about the trauma, trying to work in a complicated, frustrating, and often insensitive system, feeling helpless when trying to heal these children-all can make adults working with these children vulnerable to develop their own emotional or behavioral problems.” –Bruce D. Perry
“Our kids have experienced hurt in the place where they should’ve been the safest. Abuse, neglect, trauma, loss, all in the midst of sacred relationships.
But the very thing that brought harm is what can also bring healing. It’s in relationship that our children will find healing. Relationship with us.
Damage came in the context of relationship, but healing comes in the very same place” -Jamie Finn, Foster Mom
“Understanding your own needs and responding appropriately is of paramount importance in combating secondary traumatic stress. For foster parents it is critically important to find ways to ‘get a break’ from parenting. To avoid feeling overwhelmed by feelings of frustration and sadness it is important to engage in activities you consider fun and playful. Any person working with maltreated and traumatized children need to set aside time to rest, emotionally and physically, and to engage in activities that restore their sense of HOPE”. David Conrad, LCSW
