Our Stable Moments color-coded activities may look simple on the surface, but they are intentionally designed to build specific life skills in kids who have experienced unstable beginnings.

In this episode, I break down one of our most powerful activities: Build a Bridge. This trauma-informed mentorship activity helps foster and adopted youth develop: 🟠 Independence 🔵 Responsibility 🟢 Self-Worth

We’ll walk through:

• The trauma lens behind why some kids shut down after failure
• How to guide problem-solving without fixing it for them
• How this activity strengthens resilience and confidence
• How you can start small on a tabletop and expand to bigger bridge challenges across a room

At Stable Moments, our color-coded activities are intentionally matched to each child’s individualized Plan of Care to target the specific life skills they need to strengthen. This isn’t just an engineering challenge. It’s developmental repair.

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Many children who have experienced foster care, adoption, abuse, neglect, or abandonment haven’t had the opportunity to discover who they are or what they’re good at. Instead of exploring interests and strengths, they learned how to survive — often by giving the “right” answer rather than the true one.

In this episode, we talk about why developing a sense of self is so important for children with developmental trauma and how mentors can support strength-building in safe, relational ways. We share practical strategies mentors can use in sessions, including Stable Moments’ All About Me activity, and why noticing and naming a child’s strengths in real time can be life-changing.

Whether you’re a mentor, foster parent, or professional supporting children in care, this conversation will help you better understand how identity, confidence, and self-worth develop through consistent, trauma-informed relationships.

Topics covered include:

• Why kids with trauma often believe they’re “not good at anything”
• How survival behaviors impact identity development
• Helping kids answer “What do you like?” authentically
• Using the All About Me activity to support self-discovery
• Why naming strengths builds confidence and trust

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Some of the most powerful moments in a Stable Moments session happen between the activities — in the greeting, the transition, and the quiet spaces where connection grows.

💜 In this episode, Rebecca shares 10 simple trauma-informed practices — called Mini Moments — that mentors can use to build trust, support regulation, and strengthen key life skills with kids who have experienced trauma.

These practical tools don’t require supplies or planning, just presence and intention. Whether you’re a mentor, educator, or trauma-informed professional, you’ll leave with fresh ways to bring calm, connection, and confidence into every session. 🌱 ✨

Watch to learn:

• What “Mini Moments” are and why they matter
• How to weave trauma-informed practices naturally into sessions
• Real examples that build self-worth, responsibility, and emotional awareness

💜 Read the full blog here

Get Your Trauma-Informed Responses cheat sheet: https://www.stablemoments.com/responses

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🎵 Music + Mentorship = Magic 🎵

In this episode, we sit down with Crystal Luk-Worrall, a London-based music therapist and EMDR practitioner, to explore how music can support children in foster care and adoption through trauma-informed mentorship.

Crystal shares why music matters, how it helps regulate the body and emotions, and five simple ways mentors can use music to build trust, connection, and healing. From creating playlists to drumming, humming, and turning feelings into music, these strategies give mentors practical tools they can use right away.

👉 Whether you’re a mentor, foster parent, or professional supporting children who have experienced developmental trauma, this conversation will show you how music can open doors where words may not.

📌 Topics Covered:

Why music supports trauma-informed mentorship
How music regulates the body and nervous system
Practical ways mentors can use music with children in care
Building trust and emotional safety through creativity

Crystal's Website: www.clapandtoot.com
Mentors can download a free guide of integrating creativity in their work here: https://www.clapandtoot.com/guidetocreativepractice
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When I first became a mandated reporter, I thought it was simple: if a child disclosed abuse or neglect, I’d pick up the phone and call it in. But working with kids in foster care taught me that reporting isn’t always black and white. Sometimes disclosures are about survival, longing for home, wanting to leave a placement, or even seeking attention. In this episode of the Stable Moments Podcast, I share what it really means to be a mandated reporter when working with children who’ve experienced early developmental trauma.

We’ll cover:

• What a mandated reporter is and who qualifies
• The difference between reporting current vs. past abuse
• Why you should never assume past abuse has already been documented
• How to respond when a child discloses something difficult
• The importance of staying non-judgmental while ensuring children’s safety
• How false or exaggerated reports impact foster and adoptive families
• A simple trauma-informed framework for handling disclosures

Whether you’re a mentor, teacher, social worker, healthcare provider, or volunteer, this episode will help you navigate mandated reporting with empathy, clarity, and confidence.

👉 Watch until the end for practical steps you can take when a child shares sensitive information with you. 🌐 Learn more about the Stable Moments trauma-informed mentorship program and watch our free webinar: https://stablemoments.com/webinar

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Trauma-informed mentorship isn’t just a trendy phrase—it’s a powerful approach that meets kids from foster care and early adversity with empathy, consistency, and connection.

In this episode, we break down what trauma-informed mentorship really means, why it matters for kids who’ve experienced developmental trauma, and how the Stable Moments model is providing a practical framework for healing. We also explore why mentorship starts with us—and how doing our own inner work through the Heal Yourself, Heal the World course helps mentors show up with the presence and self-awareness that kids truly need.

✨ Whether you're a program leader, mentor, or advocate for youth in foster care, this episode will leave you inspired to create stable moments that change lives.

Check out more about our model at www.stablemoments.com

How do you respond when a child in foster care says, “Can I live with you?” Or when they lie, steal, or share something deeply personal? In this episode, we’re diving into real-life trauma-informed responses for the “sticky situations” that come up when working with kids who’ve experienced trauma—especially those in foster care.

You’ll learn:

✔️ What to say (and what not to say) in tough moments

✔️ How to hold boundaries with empathy

✔️ Why certain behaviors are really bids for connection

✔️ How to stay grounded and trauma-informed no matter what comes up

📥 Grab your FREE Trauma-Informed Response Cheat Sheet here: www.stablemoments.com/responses

Whether you're a mentor, caregiver, educator, or just someone who cares, this video will help you feel more confident and connected as you support youth from hard places. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share if this helped you!

At Stable Moments®, we make a bold claim: we are ending the foster care crisis — one mentor at a time. In this episode, I'm sharing an important presentation about the real roots of the foster care crisis and what it actually takes to end it. While systemic change is necessary, true transformation happens when we invest in the individual child — helping them heal, build self-worth, develop life skills, and break generational cycles. It's not just about finding more beds for kids in care — it's about making sure fewer kids need foster care in the first place. If you want to understand the foster care crisis on a deeper level, and learn how you can be part of the solution, this episode is for you. May is Foster Care Awareness Month — so it's the perfect time to listen, reflect, and share this message to spark change.