Resources

This panel, presented during the 2022 Trauma Symposium, addresses how it is essential for residential care workers to be equipped to identify and practice trauma-informed care with youth in order to prevent reduced self-efficacy, anger/overreactions, and over-permissiveness. By training and supporting residential care workers in trauma-informed principles, their professional quality of life may increase.

In this webinar, Dr. Connor Kerns discusses research on the prevalence, sources, and impact of traumatic experiences in autistic people, she underscores the prevalence of childhood adversity in autistic groups, highlights the need for more research in this area, and details recent investigations on the drivers and indicators of trauma reactions in autistic children and young adults.

This panel, presented during the 2022 Trauma Symposium, addresses the definition and importance of being trauma-aware, presents the training framework of the course, including the five modules, and provides testimonials from professionals who have attended this course.

This video provides information on the stigmas surrounding male childhood sexual abuse and its repercussions. It also gives tips for service providers to help this specific population.

In this one-and-a-half-hour webinar, presenters discussed the limitations of individual-focused resilience models and advocated for a decolonizing, social justice approach to building resilience in children exposed to violence, emphasizing the role of communities and systems.

In this webinar, Dr. Bruce Perry discusses the dual nature of stress responses, highlighting how stress can be both beneficial and harmful. He explores the physiological and psychological reactions to stress and how parents can intervene during those times.

This webinar discussed systemic racism's impact on marginalized groups, the impact of anti-Black racism on the child welfare system, focusing on the overrepresentation of youth in Children's Aid Society of Toronto.

In this video, Dr. Lise Milne provides information on the diverse characteristics of child sexual abuse as well as the possible impacts. It also gives tools on how to deal with disclosures and how to intervene to minimize deleterious effects.

In this video, Dr. Jenney presents information about trauma and trauma-informed practices that should be included in interventions. She also gives tools on how professionals can help children who have experienced traumas.

In an approximately 40-minute conference, Dr. Christine Wekerle discussed her research on ACEs, their lifelong impact, and teenage dating risks. She highlighted gender differences in trauma responses and emphasized the importance of a gender and trauma-informed approach to enhance resilience.