William Steele, MSW, PsyD
TLC Founder and Director
Dear Colleagues,
On July 15-18, 2008 we are holding our third annual Childhood Trauma Practitioners
Assembly in Michigan. This Assembly will provide you with the opportunity
to meet with your peers, as well as learn from a variety of childhood trauma
practitioners who work with varied and unique groups of traumatized children:
special needs students, foster children, at-risk adjudicated youth, infants
and toddlers, sexually abused children, adolescents, families and other
diverse populations exposed to either violent and assaultive trauma, or
non-violent trauma-inducing incidents.
The Assembly offers different workshops that will expose you to a variety
of practices in the field of childhood trauma, as well as the opportunity
to complete Level 1 or Level 2 TLC Certification. This is a practitioners
assembly. It is about giving you those practical strategies and programs
that the presenters, themselves, have found to be most helpful.
Since 1995 TLC intervention programs have been field-tested and successfully
undergone evidenced-based research. At the Assembly you will receive practical,
immediately usable practice strategies. Every attendee will receive a CD
containing Assembly Workshop handouts.
I look forward to seeing you at the Assembly!
William Steele, MSW, PsyD, TLC Founder and Director
William Steele, MSW, PsyD is the Founder and Director of The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children and the Executive Director of Children's Home of Detroit. He established TLC in 1990. Dr. Steele has developed, published and produced numerous books, articles, trauma-specific intervention programs and resource materials. He has trained well over 40,000 professionals. After the Gulf War he was one of the first Americans selected by the Kuwait government to provide trauma intervention training for their newly formed mental health staff. Whether in the aftermath of the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma, the tragedy of 9/11, the ravages of the tsunami, the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, or the critical incidents that occur in schools and communities, Dr. Steele’s programs and resources are helping thousands of children, families and professionals every day.
Founded in 1990 by William Steele, MSW, PsyD, The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children's (TLC) mission is to provide direct services to traumatized children and families and to provide school professionals, crisis intervention teams, medical and mental health professionals, child care professionals and clinicians with trauma education, training, consultation, referral services and trauma-specific intervention programs and resource materials needed to help children, parents, families, and schools traumatized by violent or non-violent trauma-inducing incidents.TLC is a non-profit 501(c)3 program of Children's Home of Detroit.