Trauma & Healing Awareness

Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization

Systems and organizations must shift beyond performative action toward becoming antiracist and trauma-informed. This resource offers actionable principles and strategies that organizations can implement to make this move toward fundamental transformation. The goal of this resource is to light a fire in the bellies of systems, their leaders, and their agents to adopt conscious efforts and actions that promote equity, healing, and justice. This cannot be achieved by inspiring systems to simply think differently about individuals negotiating racism in their daily lives – they must act differently.

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Advancing Racial Justice In Our Policies, Institutions, and Culture

The Race Forward toolkits provide comprehensive guidance for civil servants, artists, and cultural practitioners on implementing and strengthening racial equity strategies within their organizations and public institutions. They include actionable steps, challenges to anticipate, and success stories to aid in the strategic and equitable assessment of policies, practices, and programs.

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ACT Now SEL Guidebook

Guide to help providers learn more about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and to assist in the planning and implementation of SEL in afterschool. In this guide, you will find resources and information to assist with learning about SEL, planning for implementation, selecting SEL curriculum and activities, training staff in SEL, assessing your program’s implementation of SEL, and assessing youth SEL outcomes.

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Addressing Racism in the Classroom

This resource is intended to help educators understand how they might address the interplay of race and trauma and its effects on students in the classroom. After defining key terms, the guide outlines recommendations for educators and offers a list of supplemental resources. This guide is intended as a complement to two existing NCTSN resources—Position Statement on Racial Injustice and Trauma and Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators—and it should be implemented in accordance with individual school policies and procedures.

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A Gardener’s Tale: brief video

A brief version Dr. Camara Jones’ “Gardener’s Tale:” resents an allegory about a gardener with 2 flower boxes, rich and poor soil, and red and pink flowers. This allegory illustrates the relationship between the 3 levels of racism and may guide our thinking about how to intervene to mitigate the impacts of racism on health. This allegory is also helpful to guide classroom disccusions on race.

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