We See Something Good in Every Child

The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children's (TLC) was founded in 1990 by William Steele, PsyD, MSW. It's mission is to provide direct services to traumatized children and families. In doing so, the goal is 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 resources needed to help children, parents, families, and schools traumatized by violent or non-violent trauma-inducing incidents.  

TLC is the only program of its kind in the country. Its certification programs, conferences, books and videotapes instruct thousands of professionals every year in the use of TLC's trauma-specific interventions.

With more than 40 years experience working with at-risk youth, Dr. Steele is highly regarded and well-respected in the field. Steele's trainings, intervention programs and research speak to his focus on excellence in outcomes related to assisting troubled children. With degrees in education, social work and psychology, he has long insisted that it is the responsibility of the childcare field to be flexible in its efforts to help children, as there is no one intervention that fits every child. He is quick to add that this responsibility extends to providing evidence-based documentation.

Is your school interested in preparing educators to work effectively with all of its students?  Even those who are considered your most resistant?  Defiant?  Troubled?  Then No Disposable Kids® (NDK) is for you.

After almost 100 years of helping troubled kids find their place in the world, Starr Commonwealth created No Disposable Kids®, a bold initiative consisting of training experiences offered in a number of formats to accommodate your school's limited number of days allotted to professional development.  We've all been there.  A minor incident at school suddenly takes on a life of its own, escalating into a major school-wide crisis.  And all too often, well-meaning adults are right in the middle of it.  Why does it happen?  How do we adults become part of the solution?

Start getting answers by learning more about No Disposable Kids® trainings.  These training sessions tackle the epidemic problems of bullying, racism, school violence, dropouts and poor academic performance.  Our training programs provide immediate useful skills for adults to successfully work with almost any adult/child conflict.

Glasswing trainings offer a different way of looking at others, ourselves and the world.  Glasswing offers a two-day Healing of Racism seminar in which participants are guided through a transformation of their hearts and minds and how we relate to one another as members of the human family.  The Healing of Racism process can only exist in an atmosphere of trust and respect (for self and others).  Safety for participants is a cornerstone of this seminar.

Many participants describe the Glasswing experience as life altering.  Glasswing also offers a 5-day Certification Training for Facilitators of the 2-day sessions.  Glasswing facilitators are well trained, highly respected and exceptional at what they do.  Our 5-day sessions are intense and carefully structured to make the most of every minute. We encourage trainers to work together in teams of two or three, creating the chemistry needed to successfully co-facilitate their own Glasswing seminars.

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