The Importance of Connection

At our 2022 Lead the Fight event, keynote speaker Benjamin Perks explained the importance of connection and protection as a crucial part of our evolutionary biology:

“We depend on adults for three things — for love, for a nurturing connection, and for protection. We have a biological need to be loved … it’s there from day one.”

Anyone who has looked into the eyes of a newborn baby knows that humans seek connection. We carry this need throughout our lifetime. Connection holds a safe space for trust, protection, coping, and healing during crisis. But how do we, as adults, carve safe spaces for children while struggling to make sense of things ourselves? CFCC provides the tools to connect.

We Connect When We Interact

A Way of Being With Children: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Building Resilience

Center for Child Counseling’s groundbreaking online curriculum, manual, live workshops, and public campaigns are designed to support anyone who interacts with children and families. A Way of Being With Children represents a significant shift in our community culture, promoting everyday practices that connect to and support children’s emotional needs while helping them grow more resilient.

Connecting 11,200 Frontline Caregivers in 2022

A Way of Being curriculum, workshops, and consultation was provided for Palm Beach County teachers, daycare staff, doctors, mental health providers, and other professionals.

Connecting 450 Community Members

Since launching in May 2020, the number of parents and adults taking the online curriculum continues to grow.

We Connect When We Talk

Ways to Talk to Children: Tackling

Difficult Conversations

New free workshops, tip sheets, and videos address ongoing fears and stressors including the hardest topics to discuss with children, like self-harm and suicidal thoughts, war and violence, frequent school shootings, sexual abuse, death, grief, divorce, and loss.

Connecting to Safety and Help in 2022

Over 375 parents and caregivers took our free workshop in 2022: Identifying & Addressing Suicide, Preventing Child Sexual Abuse, In the Aftermath of a School Shooting, and Ways to Talk to Children About Grief.