For Practitioners

Learn new skills for well-being to share with families, children, and youth – and ideas for strengthening your resilience.

Immigrant and Refugee Health, Education, and Well-Being

Immigrant Refugee Panel Featured

This webinar included a panel of health, mental health, and education experts sharing their experiences working with immigrant and refugee children, youth, and families. They discussed the challenges communities are currently facing, how to support child and family well-being, and provided trauma-informed recommendations for people working with families.

Seattle Children’s First Approach Skills Training (FAST) Program

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First Approach Skills Training (FAST) programs are designed to provide brief, evidence-based behavioral therapy for youth and families with common mental health concerns, in settings such as primary care clinics or schools where longer-term treatment is not typically provided. Program materials, as well as engagement and assessment tools for Mental Health Clinicians are available on this page.

Whole Child Development: Navigating Trauma, Building Resilience, Optimizing Healing and Well-Being

Denese Shervington Featured

Dr. Denese Shervington has an intersectional career in public health and academic psychiatry. This presentation utilizes the Social Ecological Model to explore the impact of interpersonal, community, institutional, and societal factors on individual-level behaviors in minoritized children, especially those living in poverty and experiencing racial oppression. A Healing Justice framework which expands upon current evidence-based models of screening and treatment to include ancestral and indigenous practice-based evidence and wisdom is offered as a method of transformational healing for minoritized children and their families.