Anti-Racist Language and Guidance
This brief guide created by Center for Childhood Resilience helps schools and organizations use anti-racist language in their work, engagement with students and families, and materials.
This brief guide created by Center for Childhood Resilience helps schools and organizations use anti-racist language in their work, engagement with students and families, and materials.
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program that provides LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. In addition to working with individual schools, the Welcoming Schools team works with districts to increase the internal capacity for districts to improve school climate by training facilitators within the district to deliver Welcoming Schools content to district educators.
In the fourth video of the ACEs Storytelling series, California’s first Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris talks about the science behind Adverse Childhood Experiences and toxic stress and why there is hope for healing—at any age.
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The Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach school- or district wide. The Training Package includes a variety of resources for educating school staff about trauma and trauma-sensitive practices and for providing school leaders with a step-by-step process for implementing a universal, trauma-informed approach using package materials.
Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators (TISE), is a self-paced, user-friendly e-learning course designed to help K-12 educators recognize trauma and support students who may be affected by trauma. TISE contains eight modules. Modules 1–4 educate users about trauma and resilience. Modules 5–8 focus on building the skills needed to create a positive school climate, communicate in a trauma-informed way, de-escalate situations in the classroom, and collaborate with staff members to build a trauma-responsive school environment. There is a cost for this training.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents impacted by trauma and their parents or caregivers. Research shows that TF-CBT successfully resolves a broad array of emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with single, multiple and complex trauma experiences. This is the official TF-CBT National Therapist Certification Program, in which clinicians can become certified in the TF-CBT treatment model. Website also houses resources to support this work, such as TF-CBT Implementation Guide for Youth with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities.
A brief introduction to core concepts regarding brain structure and
function that provides the basis for developmentally sensitive and
trauma-informed caregiving, education and therapy.
SSET, an adaptation of CBITS, is designed to help schools and school systems that do not have access to school-based clinicians. Designed with and for teachers and nonclinical school counselors, this program targets students in fifth grade and above. Unlike CBITS, SSET uses a lesson-plan format instead of a clinical manual.
Sesame Workshop has loads of webinars, videos, guides, resources on different topics related to supporting young children, such as mental health and SEL, created for adults who work with young children. Some examples of webinars are: “Responding to Behavior in Caring Ways,” “Caring Communities,” and “Rythyms of Resilience.”
Free, web-based training: National Training Initiative’s School Based Adoption Competency for Mental Health Professionals developed by the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) It is important for educators and school mental health professionals to understand that children who have been separated from a birth parent and caregiver or who have experienced displacement are unique. The training consists of 8 modules and provides the foundational knowledge, values, skills, and resources for school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and school-based therapists to effectively support the mental health and well-being of children experiencing foster care, adoption, kinship care, and/or significant separation and loss of birth family, community, and culture.
School Based Adoption Competency for Mental Health Professionals Read More »
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