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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.
Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (WellBQ)
The NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (NIOSH WellBQ) provides an integrated assessment of worker well-being across multiple spheres, including individuals’ quality of working life, circumstances outside of work, and physical and mental health status.
Welcoming Schools for LGBTQ Students
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.
Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators
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-Sensitive Schools Training Package
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.
Understanding ACEs with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
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.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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.
Trauma-Informed Organizational Assessment
Tool created to help organizations assess their current practices in the context of serving children and families who have experienced trauma. Results from the assessment can drive organizational change that facilitates the recovery of the child and family, supports their ability to thrive, and maximizes physical and psychological safety. Results from the NCTSN TIOA can help guide organizations to identify, prioritize, implement, and sustain trauma-informed practices. This tool is an important part of an organizational transformation process to create trauma-informed organizations.