Resources

Developed as part of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience (OEAR) Framework, this topic summary explores the connections between trauma, violence, early adversity, and resilience. It highlights how trauma- and violence-related experiences can shape health and well-being across the life course, while emphasizing the importance of trauma- and violence-informed care, safe relationships, and equitable, supportive environments in reducing harm and strengthening resilience for individuals, families, and communities.

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.

This fact sheet details the importance of a trauma assessment when families have experienced a trauma and guides clinicians in the assessment process. It provides information on how to get families to embrace the need for assessment, the best practices in and appropriate domains for family trauma assessment, how to choose instruments and decide what to measure, and how to present results to the family.

This guide is concerned with advancing understanding and action about trauma-informed approaches that support program and service delivery for/with children, youth and families. This document is relevant to those working with children, youth and families in different settings such as schools, hospitals and other community-based settings. The main goals are to identify trauma-informed approaches, to raise awareness and to increase capacities in professionals.