Gender-Affirming Care is Trauma-Informed Care
This downloadable tip sheet offers tips for showing support and acceptance for transgender, gender diverse, and intersex (TGI) youth.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Choosing Trauma Informed Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
We live in a world where all children can experience challenges with their mental health, including those caused by trauma. We know all children can heal after trauma; this includes children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Sometimes recovery from trauma requires partnership with child- and family-focused mental health care providers. Caregivers play a large and important role in their child’s treatment and recovery, so having information about what help is critical. It might be time to seek help from a mental health provider if a child has experienced trauma, or you notice concerning changes in your child’s behavior or mood that suggest a traumatic experience may have occurred. For more information on that, check out Understanding Trauma Responses in Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and When to Seek Help. This is especially the case if these changes leave caregivers feeling overwhelmed.
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Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Can Experience Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Parents and Caregivers
This handout offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress. This fact sheet provides information on the intersection of IDD, trauma, and mental wellness; what intellectual and developmental disabilities are; how trauma might impact children with IDD; why children with IDD are at higher risk for trauma exposure; and how trauma service providers should partner with parents and caregivers. For more information on support, check out the handout, Choosing Trauma Informed Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities, from NCTSN.
Un Kit de Herramientas para Agencias de Bienestar de Menores para Ayuda a Jovenes a Durante y Despues de un Desastres
Este Kit de Herramientas es para el personal de bienestar de menores, supervisores y administradores que trabajan con y en nombre de niños, jóvenes y familias que experimentan un desastre natural. La información
y los recursos incluidos en el Kit brindan orientación basada en la evidencia e informada sobre el trauma para promover resultados positivos para los niños y jóvenes que han atravesado por desastres naturales.
Resources for Schools after a Shooting
Compiled resources for schools and caregivers to understand common reactions about a catestropic event such as a school shooting, how to support students and school communities, and includes guides and fact sheets.
Psychological First Aid mobile app
Download the Psychological First Aid (PFA) mobile app to accompany PFA training, which is an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. It includes helpful and easy to access information and strategies to implement during times of crises.
Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Guide
Download the PFA Field Guide that accompanies Psychological First Aid (PFA) training, which is an evidence-informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism.
Psychological First Aid
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an evidenced-informed strategy that school communities can implement after crises to support students, staff and families. It includes a 5-hour online, interactive course that puts the participant in the role of a provider in a post-disaster scene. This course is for individuals new to disaster response who want to learn the core goals of PFA, as well as for seasoned practitioners who want a review.
Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization
This guide offers actionable principles that organizations and child-serving systems can implement to move toward the fundamental transformation of becoming anti-racist and trauma-informed. This list of principles is a companion document to the Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma- Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization resource, which includes further explanation and strategies for how organizations can put these principles into action.
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Pause-Reset-Nourish to Promote Wellbeing
Pause-Reset-Nourish (PRN)* to Promote Wellbeing; Provides information about the specific self-care strategy of Pause-Reset-Nourish, or PRN. This fact sheet acknowledges the levels of stress that professionals may experience and offers a way to address unwanted symptoms and promote and replenish wellbeing and enhance resilience.
