Many caregivers wonder “How do I help children who are abused and neglected?” Care Courses offers a child care training course to help early childhood professionals identify and support abused and neglected children.
In this blog we focus on a few ideas from our course, Child Abuse and Neglect: A Caregiver’s Guide to Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Every day in the United States 1,875 children are abused and neglected.
At an early education conference in the Midwest, a Head Start teacher confided that of 18 children in her class, two-thirds of them have already experienced some form of physical or sexual child abuse in their short lives.
So, as caregivers, it is our responsibility to act in the best interests of the children in our care.
Ways to support children who have been abused
In our course, Child Abuse and Neglect: A Caregiver’s Guide to Adverse Childhood Experiences, we discuss many ways to support children who have been abused.
Some of these ways include the power of nature to heal, and providing a stable, secure, consistent, and loving environment. In addition, we cover positive ways of talking to abused and neglected children.
We suggest:
- Being available for plenty of one-on-one time with the child, and
- When the child wants to talk with you, give the child your undivided attention.
We also suggest:
- Teaching children self protection strategies,
- Giving children choices whenever possible because making choices helps children feel powerful.
In our course, Child Abuse and Neglect: A Caregiver’s Guide to Adverse Childhood Experiences, we discuss a variety of ways to support abused and neglected children. We’ve touched on just a few of them in this blog.
Additionally, read our blog Reducing Children’s Stress in Child Care to learn more strategies for reducing children’s stress.
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