GACRS is offering a Monthly Virtual Adoption Support Group featuring a New Topic each month presented by a trained adoption clinician.  Real Talk is a non-therapeutic conversational experience about issues relevant to adoptive families. It is not presented as a time of therapy; it is for informational purposes only.

Join L. Kathryn Smith, LCSW, RPT in conversation about Vicarious/Secondary Trauma.

• Vicarious trauma describes the changes we can go through as a result of repeatedly hearing about or caring for someone who has experienced trauma.
• What are we, as Foster and Adoptive Parents, doing to take care of ourselves?
•  Let’s discuss our individual experiences and help each other find ways to work through vicarious/ secondary trauma we experience.