Resources

In this video, Josh Shipp recounts his story of how he was in foster care and had all the chances of falling into the justice system, and finally encountered the family that was going to change his faith.

In an approximately 1-hour webinar, Ramona Alaggia outlined sexual abuse disclosure trends, models, and types, while delving into facilitating factors such as establishing a trauma-informed environment for disclosures.

This webinar including Dr. Denise Brend discusses the ARC Model - Attachment, Regulation and Competency, and its application for foster and adoptive families. ARC describes how to intervene to meet these children’s needs as they integrate their traumatic experiences and to create the conditions in which belonging and wellbeing can flourish. Through many clinical examples, this presentation aims to inspire families by confirming and validating the attitudes and strategies they already have, and to offer new ideas to better help the children in their care to develop their full potential.

This documentary follows the amazing recovery of Tonier "Neen" Cain from a lifetime of abuse and drug addiction to a career as a nationally-known speaker and educator on the devastation of trauma and the hope of recovery.

This webinar and live-streaming series was born out of the need to learn unique perspectives from different communities and how they deal with the issue of child sexual abuse. The unique strengths and challenges of protecting children in different communities are discussed.

This videos explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

This video addresses the way early experiences affect not only early learning and school readiness but also lifelong health. It also provides information to better understand the effects of adversities such as poverty, discrimination, systemic racism, exposure to violence, and child maltreatment, abuse, and neglect on the developing brain and many other systems in the body.

This panel, presented during the 2022 Trauma Symposium, presents a trauma-informed approach called the Colonial Trauma Framework, which recognizes indigenous people’s trauma as collective, complex, continuous, cumulative, and compounding, and explains how current trauma-informed approaches can be expanded by this framework.

This panel, presented during the 2022 Trauma Symposium, addresses the mission and impacts of Blue Door, the reality of homelessness among 2SLGBTQ+ youth, and ways organizations can become inclusive and responsive to their reality.

This serie offers way educators can build a connected classeroom, create a safe environment, create an inclusive classroom, reframe classroom discipline, and take care of themselves.