Resources

This fact sheet helps educators and school staff recognize the signs and symptoms of complex trauma and offers recommendations on how to help students heal.

This fact sheet details the importance of a holistic, multidisciplinary, multi-level approach to addressing the needs of youth with complex trauma in residential treatment settings. This fact sheet offers general guidelines for treatment providers, challenging them to “avoid a view of youth behavior that is limited solely to behavior management.”

This document provides a table of standardized measures that are appropriate for children and families dealing with complex trauma.

This fact sheet helps parents understand how economic difficulties can affect their families, in terms of their sense of safety, connectedness, and hope. It also helps families find ways to cope during uncertain times.

This guide provides information on what constitutes a healthy sexual environment and suggests rules that can be put in place at home to establish clear boundaries.

This fact sheet addresses how childhood adversity, toxic stress, and trauma can negatively impact students’ ability to thrive in school, at home, and throughout life.

This checklist can help organizations respond to high intensity and unplanned events by preparing individuals to manage the practical, logistical, and emotional impacts following incidents.

This page offers proactive and timely strategies to help children, especially those who have experienced childhood trauma, learn to better control their emotions.

This fact sheet dscribes evidence-informed interventions for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. It discussed interventions that address posttraumatic emotional and behavioral problems, setting the stage before providing or referring for a therapeutic intervention, intervention for traumatized adolescents, interventions for traumatized youth involved in the juvenile justice system, and additional clinical considerations when working with youth involved in the juvenile justice system

In this presentation, Dr. Julien Ford discussed psychological trauma, its aftereffects, and post-traumatic stress reactions from natural and human-made disasters. He covered community and family recovery from trauma, along with the concept of secondary trauma.