• Conduct comprehensive systemic family assessment to drive goal-directed treatment planning

• Partner with family to determine preference, readiness, and facilitate shared decision-making

• Design services to be accessible, flexible and individualized to families’ needs and circumstances

• Attend to family’s developmental status while being responsive to developmental needs of individual adult and child family members

• Mobilize family resources, i.e. nurturing relationships, protective skills, ability to maintain predictable routines and effective structure, communication/problem solving skills, social network, to support growth and recovery.

• Promote safety for all family members.

• Assess and address the multiple pathways along which exposure to chronic and acute stress impacts family systems

• Infuse trauma-informed family engagement strategies that reduce barriers to accessing treatment/services

• Recognize the family’s traumatic context to a.) enhance their capacity to navigate multiple systems in ways that minimize daily hassles, system demands, and social/public incivilities, and b.) assist them in arriving at a shared meaning of their trauma story.

• Educate the family on the impact of trauma on individual and family functioning.

• Recognize a range of possible traumatic responses including thriving, resilience, acute, post, chronic and complex traumatic stress.

• Optimize the strengths of the family’s cultural/ethnic backgrounds and religious or spiritual affiliations and beliefs to support recovery.

• Augment protective factors that reduce the adverse impacts of trauma exposure, limit future risk and promote well-being across the family system.

• Address impact of trauma work with families on providers and their systems.