Safety planning and having a safety plan for when your attachment challenged or complex trauma-informed child's dysregulation exceeds chaos is essential. The 911 and 211 services or emergency mobile psychiatric services call-line can be a lifeline, but it can also be challenging. As a parent, you can feel shame, fear, and even failure because you made the call at all. This episode provides context around the 911 call decision and reveals what the experience might look and feel like after responders arrive at your home.

Maureen O'Neill-Davis and Cheri Brown of Family Forward Advocacy CT, Inc., a parent and policy advocacy organization, talk about their own experiences with "making the call" and discuss the reasons why calling first responders is a necessary consideration and what various outcomes of that decision might look and feel like. 

Managing the behaviors of kids with Developmental Trauma Disorder aka RAD, complex trauma histories, and kids who lost biological parents early in life can be challenging and sometimes dangerous. Safety must be a priority and natural consequences including first responders arriving at your home help teach and reinforce to your emotionally unstable child that their conduct does in fact have consequences. And calling 911 can effectively document your child's out-of-control patterns which may help you to gain access to higher levels of care for your child down the road. 

This is a hard journey, but you are not alone. Need support? Contact us at www.FamilyForwardAdvocacyCT.com