To develop your self-care plan, you will identify what you value and need as part of your day-to-day life (maintenance self-care) and the strategies you can employ when or if you face a crisis along the way (emergency self-care). This website has lots of information on caring for ourselves in high-stress jobs, including a self-care care assessment to download.
This article presents a model with demonstrated success in improving rates of many interrelated and intergenerational health and social problems by investing in the people most at risk and reducing and preventing the root cause of these problems: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The Self-Healing Communities Model (SHCM) builds the capacity of communities to
intentionally generate new cultural norms and thereby improve health, safety and productivity for current and future generations.
The way you live your life can have a big impact on your health, well-being, and how well or poorly you handle stress. This self-assessment allows for an individual to reflect and determine how well or poorly you take care of yourself can help you manage your stress in the future.
In the video, Dr. Nia Heard-Garris explains how media exposure to racism negatively impacts health by causing stress and trauma, especially through vicarious racism, which is when children witness or hear about racist incidents rather than experiencing them directly.
The School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project offers resources and support to help schools recover and heal from crises through a trauma-informed and equity-centered approach.
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.
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Searchable database of materials created by the Center for Safe & Resilient Schools to support trauma-informed schools. Includes resources around Tier 2 interventions, such as a downloadable CBITS manual.
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.
Rainbows’s mission is to create a community that connects children with the support they need to navigate grief and heal from loss. Rainbows provides training and support groups to schools around programs and resources for schools to support students dealing with grief and loss.
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