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At the time of their stories, Beth and *Brielle were both three years old, small for their age, active, an d adorable. Another thing they had in common was that they had both been removed from their biological parents and placed in foster care. When I was eleven years old, friends of my family had a three year old foster daughter named Beth who had some huge traumas in her life. I was asked to be her one-on-one buddy in the church nursery and developed a bond with her that helped her cope in that environment. I really had no idea what I was doing, but I was so excited to be a big helper with the little children! Looking back, I see that the strong relationship she and I built contributed to her sense of safety and security, which helped her regulate her emotions and be successful in that setting. A seed had been planted in my heart. *not her real name https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1624569258349-WGV1K2GQLAYF0CDERFXN/Foster+girl+photo+%281%29.png How TRECS got started Fast forward to 2017, and I was the teacher in an Exceptional Student Preschool Classroom. Three-year-old Brielle had been kicked out of two daycares and took our room by storm, alternating being a combination of sweet and sassy with having huge meltdowns which included screaming, knocking over furniture, dumping toys, climbing, hiding, and physical aggression. All my love, combined with every tactic I knew about discipline and classroom management, seemed to do nothing to help in the long term. She was receiving psychiatric care and counseling, and I had some communication with these professionals. Enlisting the help of a school-based Behavioral Specialist left us with charts and reward/ consequence systems in which Brielle had no interest and that had no impact (except to make her angrier). I thought Brielle was angry, confused, and needed limits. I didn’t yet know the brain science that now tells us that she was terrified, she was being placed in situations beyond her level of stress tolerance, and she was almost constantly in a state of fight or flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1624570226700-KMET617JWUI4X9QZIBV7/Three+children+%282%29.jpg How TRECS got started - For example: *Moriah, who was kicked out of three daycares before the age of four due to aggressive behaviors, and who would attempt to physically fight the teacher rather than transition between activities. *Daniel, a non-verbal little boy who would hurl himself from the top of the playground equipment, run full speed into windows, and body slam his classmates with no apparent fear, and who would refuse to to do any non-preferred activity. *Kelsie, a child with high cognitive, verbal, and adaptive functioning, but who would yell “Nooooo!” or just scream shrilly at the top of her lungs when something was asked or required of her. *Andre, who would smile sweetly and then run in the opposite direction, jumping on tables and scratching or pushing anyone in his way *not their real names https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1624649466862-IH41D8VFU44E96KR82QH/Bryton+Easel+1.jpg How TRECS got started - TRECS is based on the research and work of many educators and psychologists. Because of my students who needed more than I was equipped to provide, I went on a years-long quest of my own—reading books, taking courses, participating in conferences, and obtaining certifications—in my own personal attempt to glean the most applicable and practical knowledge from each expert as related to early childhood classrooms. This work is in honor of each of these students. I have taken what I have learned, and what I have successfully implemented, to create a model of bringing trauma-responsive teaching to the early childhood classroom. Below, you can find a link to an annotated bibliography of some of my favorite resources which were all used to varying degrees to create the TRECS training modules. https://www.trechildhoods.com/what-is-trecs daily 0.75 2024-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1625606306456-08B8KNALBVTAFPJA1DBZ/Children+emotion+coaching+2.jpg About TRECS - Make it stand out Students spontaneously emotion-coaching a classmate who was having a difficult time entering the classroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1624644060403-EWW22Y58CMPBVB448W7K/Bryton+Room+2.JPG About TRECS Actual photo of a small area of the aftermath of one of “Brielle’s” meltdowns. See The TRECS Story for more about this Brielle.. https://www.trechildhoods.com/resources daily 0.75 2025-08-09 https://www.trechildhoods.com/moniques-bio daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1625576144304-BQ0JWW8IXQHQOE0BCBXX/Selfie+front+of+house.JPG Monique's Bio - My name is Monique Niederer Davis. I am a first generation American with dual citizenship in the USA and Switzerland. I am grateful for many things about my upbringing, yet being raised in a very strict, and at times harsh, authoritative household shaped a lot of my ideas about child rearing and teaching that I am still unlearning. Being an adoptee, I also have a history of perinatal trauma and attachment disruption as an infant. Therapy and attending REBOOT Recovery helped me to explore and change pre-programmed beliefs, and studying experts in the field challenged me to become more trauma-responsive in my own methodology of teaching. Your journey will not look like mine. This background information is available to you in case you are interested in how I got to where I am today, preaching and teaching about trauma-responsive practice in early childhood education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d3996eaf6c3f4ff9c77460/1627247432657-FSFUZG1QTAYK5I64WAP8/Chrissy+and+Shawn.jpg Monique's Bio - We need people living and proclaiming the message about trauma-responsive care from all backgrounds and paths. I’m quite an introvert; however, when I believe in something, I am willing to take a stand, as I am doing here! In college, I became involved in a ministry called Pals, in which college students were paired with a child from the community. I built a relationship with my “little pal” that is still going today. (This photo is her at six years old with her little brother on the day I first met them!) 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