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Presented by Sue Beadeau, Casey Family Programs, Pennsylvania at the 37th NACAC Conference 2011 in Denver, Colorado. Every child entering foster care has experienced some amount of trauma—if nothing else, removal from home and placement into care. Parenting a traumatized child can be challenging and stressful. The better a parent is equipped to cope with the emotional, behavioral, and verbal responses of children and youth to placement in foster care, the greater the child or youth’s opportunity to heal. The presenter will engage participants in a discussion of the strengths and challenges of traumatized foster children and will share strategies for helping professionals and parents become more trauma-informed.