Enhancing safety and trust—Youth with complex trauma often require additional time to apply what they have learned in TF-CBT to their current (or new) environments. Transitioning from trusting the therapist and a caregiver to trusting new people requires trial and error; as the youth engages in this process the therapist supports the youth to use skills through expected setbacks. As the youth gradually learns to tolerate these disappointments they are offset by successes and growing mastery in multiple domainsCase example: Kayla completed conjoint sessions with Chuck and was doing well in RTF after 20 TF-CBT sessions. However several attempts to transition to foster homes were unsuccessful due to problematic interactions between Kayla and prospective foster parents (e.g., Kayla reported that 1 foster parent threatened her; she ran away from another home during a weekend visit, and got into a physical altercation with a male foster son at a third prospective foster home). Chuck suggested that Kayla was undermining these placements in order to remain in the RTF setting where she felt safe. The therapist explored this with Kayla during two additional sessions focused on enhancing safety. Kayla was able to acknowledge her desire to continue treatment with the current therapist and contact withChuck whom she viewed as a protective adult presence and to openly say that she was afraid of going to an uncertain future since her past foster care experiences had been unsafe. The therapist explored the possibility of Kayla going to a group home which she was more comfortable with; during the next 2 months Kayla gradually transitioned to a nearby group home. The therapist continued to focus on safety, and how Kayla could use what she had learned during TF-CBT treatment to ease the transition to the new setting. Kayla met the group home therapist and had 3 joint sessions with this therapist and her RTF therapist; during the 4th joint session Kayla volunteered that she had created a trauma narrative in the RTF and that she would share this with the new therapist. Chuck took her to visit the group home, she met several residents whom she liked and after another month Kayla successfully transitioned to the group home. Since Kayla had no community supports, Chuck offered that Kayla could call him at the RTF if she needed support. Kayla called Chuck appropriatelyand successfully transitioned to the group home.