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Creating Community Links
The National Link Coalition is an informal, multidisciplinary, collaborative network of individuals and organizations that focuses on animal abuse, domestic violence, child maltreatment and elder abuse through research, public policy, programming, and community awareness.
Preventing Community Trauma
The Prevention Institute out of Oakland,California advocates for prevention and health equity policy and systems change, improving conditions for children, families and communities. this site provides a significant amount of resources that support their mission of improving the systems we work in.
Our Children. Our Future.
Bullying and Trauma
Bullying and Trauma: This infograph provides facts and statistics and a brief overview of the relationship between bullying and trauma, facts and statistics about how PTSD. For more information from The National Traumatic Stress Network.
Support for Children
This info-graph provides 7 steps on "what do I do" to provide Trauma-Informed support to children. This could be used as a handout or informational flyer that encompasses the ways individuals can interact with children who have been impacted by trauma.
Toolkit for Caregivers
This toolkit acts as a support to caregivers on their journey towards "trauma sensitivity" within their family. There are a variety of handouts offered on the site on resilience, attachment, cues, emotion discipline, etc..
School & Educator Resources
A School’s Journey Toward Trauma Sensitivity
This 10-minute video shines a spotlight on a school in Brockton, Massachusetts that has embarked upon a journey to cultivate a trauma-sensitive, safe, and supportive environment. The video explores the process the school went through to begin to shift toward trauma-informed practices and includes specific experiences and lessons learned among educators, staff, and administrators who have watched the school transform.
District Leadership's Role in Supporting and Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools
This video discusses the implementation of trauma-informed practices within school districts through advocacy, communication, training and professional development.
Helping Students Recover at School Report
This toolkit for educators provides information about supporting the children/adolescents they work with in their schools through long-term recovery from trauma. The toolkit offers a number of suggested approaches based on the type of trauma that their students have experienced, such as natural disaster, violence, mass shooting, abuse, etc.
Mindfulness and Yoga Instead of Detention in Ohio Schools
This article explores the implementation of a statewide initiative in Ohio encouraging schools and teachers to offer mindfulness training to students. Scholars posit that yoga can help improve students’ responses to stress, process past events that may have been challenging, enhance social engagement, and improve academic performance. The article also looks to other schools nationwide that have established similar programs, highlighting the “Quiet Time Program” model’s promising outcomes among students showing substantial decreases in violent conflict, stress, anxiety, and suspensions, along with increases in self-confidence, creativity, and happiness.
Talking to kids about Trauma
Be You is an interactive site that promotes improving children’s and young people’s mental health in early learning services and schools in Australia.
The Absence of Punishment in Our Schools
This article describes the difference between punishments and consequences for children and details how a trauma-informed school maintains the absence of punishment while integrating accountability and consequences.
Toolkit for Educators
Provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system.
Trauma Sesitive School Checklist
A trauma-sensitive school is a safe and respectful environment that enables students to build caring relationships with adults and peers, self-regulate their emotions and behaviors, and succeed academically, while supporting their physical health and well-being.
Trauma Sensitive Schools Video
This video is a part of a training tool for teachers and other faculty within a school to build trust and feel safe in school. There are a number of one on one interviews with teachers discuss how working with students and parents to ensure they are allowing them to feel supported by the school.
Wisconsin Online Trauma-Sensitive Professional Development Webinars
This professional development module (with a certificate of completion) focuses on how individuals who work in a school setting could adapt to using a trauma-informed lens, to be mindful of themselves and how they are interacting with other staff and students.
Homesless Populations
Provider Guide for Homeless Veterans
Trauma-Informed Care for Women Veterans Experiencing Homelessness: A Guide for Service Providers, also known as the “Trauma Guide,” was created to address the psychological and mental health needs of women veterans. The guide is also a compilation of best practices aimed at improving effectiveness in engaging female veterans.
Research Paper: Shelter from the Storm
This paper explores the evidence base for TIC within homelessness service settings, including the definition of Trauma-Informed Care, what is known about TIC, examples of programs implementing TIC, and implications for practice, programming, policy, and research.
Trauma-Informed Organizational Toolkit for Homeless Services
The toolkit offers homeless service providers with concrete guidelines for how to modify their practices and policies to ensure that they are responding appropriately to the needs of families who have experienced traumatic stress.
Videos & TED Talks
ACE Ted Talk: How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris discusses the link between untreated adverse childhood experiences and physical well-being into adulthood. Harris reminds us that trauma is not discriminatory, it is real and it requires all of us to be part of the movement to address it.
Community Approaches to Toxic Stress
This webinar discusses a framework of community approaches to toxic stress and how cities and counties can use the framework to improve the well-being of their youngest residents.
Sesame Street: Helping Children Through Experiences
Sesame Street has created ways to help children impacted by trauma gain skills of resilience and effective coping strategies. There are videos, coloring pages and other interactive activities to enhance self-awareness and how their experiences have shaped who they are.
The Value of Deep Listening - The Aboriginal Gift to the Nation
In this video, Judy Atkinson discusses listening and allowing stories behind trauma to be heard as an approach to fostering intergenerational healing and recovery from trauma. This video evocatively brings to life an image of how trauma lives in the body and encourages self-reflection to facilitate practicing deep listening.
Trauma-Informed Care Champions: From Treaters to Healers
This 12-minute video discusses the value of trauma-informed care from both provider and patient perspectives. Highlighting several entities that participated in a nationwide initiative called “Advancing Trauma-Informed Care,” this video delves into common scenarios patients encounter when they access services that can traumatize or re-traumatize and provides testimonials of successful approaches that instead pay heed to lived experience. Positive outcomes at the individual, organizational, and systemic levels are explored.