Trauma-Informed Care
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This article gives educators five ways to help students in trauma.
Frequently asked questions about Adverse Childhood Experiences, toxic stress, and how to reduce the effects.
ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions.
The Attachment & Trauma Network’s mission is to promote the healing of children impacted by trauma through supporting their families, schools, and communities.
Learn more about preventing ACEs in your community by assuring safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments with these resources from the CDC.
“Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Tragic Events” is an article about some strategies for talking to teens about mass shootings, terrorism or unexpected attacks.
The Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI)’s mission is to promote the early and lifelong health of children, youth, and families. Part of fulfilling this mission is to disseminate data, information, and ideas to understand and address social determinants of health, like adverse childhood experiences and the trauma and chronic and toxic stress that can result and impact lifelong health. A primary focus is on promoting the development of positive health, such as resilience, engagement in life, and the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships most essential to child development and well being.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network recently came out with a child trauma toolkit for educators.
The third edition of the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT) incorporates two foundational trainings, a specialized skills training for supervisors and caseworkers, and a supervisor consultation series to enhance transfer of learning into day-to-day practice.
The ChildTrauma Academy is a Community of Practice working to improve the lives of high-risk children through education, research, and the dissemination of innovation.
Occupational therapists and trauma-informed teachers weigh in on how to create sensory tools and spaces with what you have at home.
“Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care” includes a self-care self-assessment with key strategies for fostering resilience and a self-care planning tool to assist educators in identifying areas of strength and growth related to self-care and developing self-care plans.