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.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between chronic disease, early adversity, and resilience. It emphasizes the importance of supportive environments and protective factors in promoting lifelong health and reducing the risk of chronic disease.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary examines the links between climate change, early adversity, and resilience. It highlights how climate-related challenges can affect children’s development and well-being, while offering strategies to strengthen protective factors and support resilience in families and communities.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between equity, inclusion and reconciliation, early adversity, and resilience. It highlights how systemic inequities, discrimination, racism, and the ongoing impacts of colonialism can increase exposure to adversity and affect health and well-being across generations, while emphasizing the importance of equity-focused, culturally safe, and inclusive approaches to fostering resilience and supporting healthy communities.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between food, feeding and nutrition, early adversity, and resilience. It emphasizes the importance of responsive feeding relationships, food security, and equitable access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food in supporting healthy development, well-being, and resilience among children and families.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between infant feeding (0–6 months), early adversity, and resilience. It highlights the role of infant feeding in supporting healthy development, caregiver-infant attachment, and long-term well-being, while emphasizing the importance of equitable access to feeding supports and nurturing environments that strengthen resilience for infants and families.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between mental health, early adversity, and resilience. It highlights how adverse experiences can influence mental health and well-being across the life course, while emphasizing the importance of supportive relationships, protective factors, and equitable access to services in fostering resilience and promoting positive mental health for individuals, families, and communities.

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between substance use, early adversity, and resilience. It highlights how adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress can increase the risk of substance use and related harms across the life course, while emphasizing the importance of prevention, supportive relationships, and protective factors in fostering resilience and promoting health and well-being.