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Support kids on their journey
Start a Lala’s Journey kids group.
Lala’s Journey is a children’s book and five-week program. Community members are trained to provide “first aid for the soul” for the kids in their lives.
Children learn and practice trauma stabilizing skills such as:
Discovering the things that make them resilient.
Practicing grounding techniques.
Learning how to take the next step after a challenging situation.
Trusting and growing in relationship with others.
“[This] puts trauma training into the hands of people who may never have the time or energy to become professional counselors.
And we will never have enough professional trauma counselors to deal with this crisis.”
— Claudia Löwen, trauma counselor
Complete Lala’s Journey
Register.
Sign up to receive the training and curriculum. Costs can be offset by a scholarship.
Train.
Online or in-person, training will give you a perspective on working with kids in trauma.
Form your group.
Using ideas from the training, form your small group of 6-8 kids with one additional leader.
Give soul aid.
Provide the “first aid” that can help with emotional stabilization.
“That’s MY story!”
Kids who participate in Lala’s Journey activities get to practice what they learn in each of the chapters. Girls and boys connect with Lala’s experiences. Just a few minutes into the first chapter, one girl protested: “Hey, that’s my story!” She was touched to find out that so many others had also had her experience of the refugee journey, that there was a book about it.
Finding out that she was not alone and others shared her experiences was helpful in her healing process. While Lala’s story is about a girl going through the refugee journey, kids from all backgrounds identify with her and journey with her, learning something new.
Photo by rrajputphotography on Unsplash
What’s Included?
Book
Over five chapters, we follow Lala’s story as she learns to explore and thrive in her new home, after a refugee journey. Kids learn from Lala how they can help themselves find emotional balance after challenging situations. They will discover and practice the keys to their resilience. Kids from many backgrounds can learn from Lala’s Journey.
Facilitator’s Guide
The easy-to-use curriculum has five 90-minute lessons, one for each chapter of the book. Kids get the chance to try out the emotional skills which Lala models in the book.
Training
Equip yourself and your team with online or in-person training. You’ll get an orientation to trauma-informed care and how to design a place in which kids are safe to grow.
Start to give First Aid for the Soul
Print Book
Purchase a PDF of Lala’s Journey you can print yourself. The large-size pictures work great for reading with your small group. Joining a larger print of soft-cover books is also possible.
5-Week Guide
Receive training and the facilitator’s guide so you can lead children through the five-week course.
Contact us.
Not ready to register yet? Get in touch, find out more information, and ask your questions. We’d love to hear from you!
Home@FirstAidfortheSoul.org
+1 (503) 616-4594
2373 NW 185th Ave. #347
Hillsboro, OR 97124