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Stress & Trauma Treatment Center

The Stress & Trauma Treatment Center is a specialized facility that serves Southern Illinois and helps individuals heal from traumatic experiences and manage stress. They offer a range of evidence-based therapies, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). These therapies are designed to support children, adolescents, young adults, and their families in overcoming the effects of trauma and adversity.

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Stress, Trauma, and the Brain: Insights for Educators

Stress is a natural part of life and we experience it daily. However, we don’t often think about what stress does to our brain, our ability to learn new concepts, get along with others, or recall information. Dr. Perry discusses the impact of stress on students and teachers, and explains how creating a safe, secure environment is critical to allowing students to reach their full potential.

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Student and GSA Resources

LGBTQ+ student-led clubs and GSAs (Gender and Sexuality Alliances) are leading the work to create safe and LGBTQ-inclusive schools, and student organizers are the nation’s most powerful base for creating change. Find out how to start a GSA, get free resources to support your GSA’s work, take part in the Day of Silence, Solidarity Week, and join the national network of more than GSAs by registering your student club.

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SHAPE System

The School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation (SHAPE) System is a public-access, web-based platform that offers schools, districts, and states/territories a workspace and targeted resources to support school mental health quality improvement. SHAPE was developed by the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH), in partnership with the field, to increase the quality and sustainability of comprehensive school mental health systems.

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Self-Care Assessment

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.

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Self-Healing Communities

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.

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Sesame Workshop

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.”

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School Based Adoption Competency for Mental Health Professionals

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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Restorative Practices Guide and Toolkit

This Restorative Practices Guide and Toolkit was created by the Chicago Public Schools Office of SEL, in collaboration with the Embrace Restorative Justice in Schools Collaborative. The guidance and resources provided are intended to support staff, administrators, and community partners in developing restorative school communities. The implementation tools included should be used by trained school staff and administrators, parents, RP Coaches, and community members. The tools are not to be used in place of training and is not a platform to begin practicing formal Restorative Practices in schools without other supports, such as professional development and coaching.

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