This transformative training invites participants into an intimate, powerful dialogue between a father and daughter whose lives have been shaped by the intersecting impacts of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), foster care, and the long, often nonlinear path to healing. Co-presented by Russell G. Wilson—a nationally recognized lived experience expert, survivor of CSEC and forced criminality, and dedicated father—and his daughter, Pema Wilson, this session offers an unprecedented look into the lasting effects of trauma on parenting, masculinity, identity, and generational cycles of harm and hope. Through raw storytelling, reflection, and applied insight, this session explores how childhood trauma, including familial trafficking and systemic removal into foster care, continues to echo into adulthood—especially when survivors become parents. Rather than relying solely on theory, this presentation offers a grounded, real-time account of the daily decisions, emotional triggers, and relationship repairs that parenting through trauma often entails. Together, Russell and Pema share moments of rupture and repair, conflict and connection, grief and growth—illustrating the deep work required to build trust where trauma has once fractured it. This session challenges participants to expand their understanding of parenting and trauma beyond clinical checklists or service plans. Instead, it centers authenticity, vulnerability, and the critical importance of survivor voice in informing both family-centered and trauma-informed practice. Professionals will walk away with concrete tools to help families navigate: Rebuilding trust after foster care separation or incarceration Navigating conversations about past trauma with children and teens Identifying how trauma responses show up in parenting styles (e.g., overprotection, emotional withdrawal, explosive anger) Co-regulation strategies and communication techniques to strengthen parent-child bonds Building support systems that affirm survivor parents—especially fathers—and disrupt cycles of silence, shame, and stigma This session is especially relevant for child welfare professionals, clinicians, survivor-advocates, family support workers, and foster youth-serving organizations. It is also a call to action for systems to better support survivor parents—particularly men—who often go unseen in parenting spaces, despite carrying a powerful role in breaking cycles of generational trauma. This is a deeply human, emotionally honest, and solution-focused session that will stay with you long after the conference ends. More than a training, it is a testament to resilience, to love hard-earned, and to the healing that becomes possible when we dare to show up—for ourselves, for our children, and for the generations yet to come.