Cultivating Resilience in Children

Empowering Families, Protecting Children through Advocacy and Awareness: A Public Webinar Series

Louisiana CASA is excited to host our third webinar series. This series is brought to you in partnership with the Louisiana Children's Trust Fund so we are required to ask participants certain demographic questions during registration. Once you register, an email will be sent to you that includes the link to join the webinar. We hope to see you there!

 Cultivating Resilience in Children 

Resiliency can be a powerful protective factor in preventing child abuse and neglect. Children who are resilient will be better able to cope with stress, build positive relationships with caregivers and peers, and develop a sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem. By promoting resilience in children who have experienced abuse or neglect, we can help to prevent further abuse and neglect by providing them with the tools they need to cope with stress and adversity in a positive way. This can include providing supportive environments, building positive relationships with caring adults, and teaching children healthy coping strategies. By promoting resilience, we can help to break the cycle of abuse and create a brighter future for children and families.

About the Speaker, Christine Varnado

Christine Varnado is a licensed professional counselor in south Louisiana, where she manages her private practice, Healing Hearts Counseling, and offers training courses. She has over a decade of counseling experience. She likes to dig deep with her clients and utilizes therapy techniques to help her clients process their trauma, overcome their fears, and relate to others in healthy and fulfilling ways. She is trained in many empirically validated counseling models but loves using Trust Based Relational Interventions (TBRI) to bring healing to kids from hard places and their families. She recently co-authored a book, The Proverbs Project: Head to Toe Devotions for the Whole Family. Christine is really gifted at hospitality and loves hosting events in her home from showers to smaller get-togethers with friends and family. Christine and her husband Matt have 3 energetic boys and a playful chocolate lab. She has the most appropriate song at the most appropriate time.