Resources

This guide, created by the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse (National Centre), offers a review of best practice approaches to community awareness and education for prevention of child sexual abuse and children’s harmful sexual behaviour. The objectives of the review were: to scope best practice approaches to community awareness and educa on, and to scope existing community awareness and education materials, their outcomes and impact.

This page provides tips for teachers and school staff to better recognize the signs and symptoms of abuse in children. It also provides a questions and answers section where common questions are highlighted. For those who are visual and prefer having information through an explanatory video, one has been created where all the important information is found.

This page offers information on resilience, more precisely on how protective factors or situations can counterbalance adversity in children. It uses a balance to better illustrate and help individuals understand.

These pages provide more information about trauma-informed screening and assessment—including the types of tools that are available and strategies for engaging families—as well as considerations for implementation. In addition, the searchable NCTSN Measures Review Database provides easy access to comprehensive clinical and research information on a variety of measures important for the field of child traumatic stress.

This information sheet summarizes recent findings presenting the benefits and limitations of using the ACE questionnaire as part of routine screening in community and clinical samples.

This guide provides information on sexuality and developmental disabilities, as well as tips on how to talk about important issues such as consent.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the main signs of developmental trauma that can be seen in children, including sensory problems, attachment insecurity, and emotional dysregulation and describes how these manifest both at home and at school.

This page provides information on various statistics related to sexual violence.

This Substance Use Practice Brief on Trauma-informed Care with Youth provides practical considerations to help clinicians implement trauma-informed care into practice. This brief is intended to support therapists, counsellors, social workers, social service workers, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals providing treatment and counselling to youth aged 12-25 with substance use and addiction concerns. 

This fact sheet defines key terms, including consent and coercion, and offers guidance to parents related to dating violence and sexual assault. It also describes how common teen sexual assault is, how it relates to dating relationships, the roles drugs and the Internet can play in increasing risk, and provides tips for staying safe and what to do if your teen has experienced sexual assault.