The Never Look Away Trauma Training Program is a nine-module, animated video series and an accompanying curriculum based on concepts and tools from Trauma Systems Therapy that covers essential aspects of trauma-informed care (such as assessment, case formulation, treatment planning, treatment engagement, advocacy, focused intervention).

The Never Look Away video series helps those responsible for caring for traumatized children to understand the child’s perspective and utilize this understanding to “never look away” from what is needed to help them.

Never Look Away is utilized within the CHAMP Network to enhance knowledge and skills for providers implementing child welfare prevention services in its community child welfare prevention agencies. It is also implemented so that these agencies can scale this knowledge and skill throughout their agency and community. Several providers in each of those agencies are trained as Never Look Away trainers. They are then responsible for conducting Never Look Away training for providers throughout their agency and community.

The pedagogy of this video series and curriculum applies case method techniques that center on two characters who have experienced traumatic events and who have significant problems related to their sense of safety and security in their worlds. The series engages participants to consider how to help these characters and the great many children like them to feel safe and secure in their worlds. The video series is entitled Never Look Away because this phrase encapsulates the central value used in TST for guiding the work with traumatized children and families.

This series is centered on two children, Ethan and Angela, who have experienced traumatic events and who have significant problems related to their sense of safety and security in their worlds. The series engages participants to consider how to help Ethan and Angela—and the great many children like them—to feel safe and secure in their worlds.