Children subconsciously absorb their parents’ unresolved and repressed traumatic experiences, which can unknowingly shape their emotional and psychological state. Instead, it happens subtly and subconsciously through parenting styles. The purpose is to train and empower Indigenous counsellors to deliver ITTM to the families with their communities and reserves, rather than continue to fly in mental health professionals from other cities. Intergenerational trauma transmission is often not conscious. Asian American parenting practices have been studied, often in the context of model minority stereotypes of Asian parents, for example that of the overbearing tiger parent popularized by self-proclaimed tiger mom Amy Chua (Lau & Fung, 2013). The ITTM is also currently in the process of being rolled out to Indigenous communities across Northern Ontario and Manitoba. Parenting thus plays an important role in intergenerational trauma transmission. Currently, there are six Certified ITTM Trainers across Ontario who are responsible for providing 100-hours of ITTM training to new staff entering their clinics. Over 500 clinicians have been trained in the ITTM model and continue to use it as an essential tool for children and their caregivers who have experienced complex trauma. Many clinics continue to offer the ITTM as their primary trauma treatment program twenty years later. Over 11 mental heath organizations have enrolled in the Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model (ITTM) program. Although the program is primarily designed for children and their caregivers, it has also proven to be highly effective in the resolution of childhood trauma in adults. The ITTM program resolves the primary, negative self-belief, which allows for a return to an authentic sense of self, free from unconsciously replaying and reliving the traumatic living conditions, events, and/or impact in childhood. The model uses advanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to effect gradual and sustained change in the thoughts, feelings, and actions informed by negative self- beliefs. Over the course of treatment, caregivers enter a process that identifies and resolves their core negative self-belief, most often established in childhood. To do so, the ITTM applies a phase-based system informed by trauma theory, attachment theory, and philosophical logic. This study examined the relationships among parental trauma, parenting difficulty, duration of planned family separation, and child externalizing behavior in an archival dataset of West African voluntary and forced immigrants in New York City. The ITTM model is an approach designed to address the core negative self-belief created after trauma. Few studies have investigated the intergenerational effects of trauma in immigrant populations. The Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model (ITTM) does not treat the specific traumatic event per se - instead it accurately assesses and addresses the impact of the traumatic event on a person’s negative belief systems.Įvery person assigns a different type of meaning to a traumatic event, even when the traumatic events amongst several people may be the same.