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Communities of Practice: Facilitators’ Guide
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of peers who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic, who come together regularly to fulfill both individual and group goals. A CoP provides an environment conducive to learning and exchange, emphasizing interactions in a climate of mutual trust and respect. Within the RSSI framework, a CoP can also serve as a strategy within a school or district’s action plan, helping to deepen implementation and foster collaborative, practice-based growth. This guide provides the history of CoPs in Illinois’ trauma responsive schools work and helps facilitators plan for and facilitate a Community of Practice. This is guide is a collaboration among Center for Childhood Resilience, Partnership 4 Resilience, and Stress & Trauma Treatment Center.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
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Trauma-Responsive Schools Implementation Assessment (TRS-IA)
The Trauma-Responsive Schools Implementation Assessment (TRS-IA) is a school-wide, evidence-informed quality improvement tool designed to help schools identify strengths and areas for growth in trauma-responsive practices. The TRS-IA generates a detailed feedback report highlighting school strengths and areas for growth across eight domains. This report serves as a catalyst for action planning, programming, and policy development, helping teams build school cultures rooted in safety, equity, and healing. Developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Resilience, Hope, and Wellness in Schools, and the National Center for School Mental Health, the TRS-IA supports schools in creating safer, more supportive environments for students impacted by trauma.
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Trauma-Informed Practices: A Whole-School Policy Framework
Researchers suggest that students with many ACEs may be at risk for academic or behavioral issues without officially meeting the diagnostic standards for receiving special education services or interventions. This research article explores a trauma-informed whole-school policy framework to address these issues.
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Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing (REACH)
REACH is a model in Illinois for creating positive change in schools that consists of four steps: school team formation, evidence-based assessment, action planning, and implementation support. Initially focused exclusively on Trauma-Responsiveness and Healing-Centeredness, REACH also includes three additional pillars: Mental Health; Social and Emotional Learning; and CARE (Culturally Awareness, Responsiveness and Equity).
REACH is a partnership led by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s Center for Childhood Resilience and Illinois State Board of Education’s Learning Renewal program in partnership with regional SEL Hubs, Partnership for Resilience, and Stress & Trauma Treatment Center.
Schools play a central and critical role in helping students build their capacity to cope with stress and life problems – in other words, resilience. Research shows that the majority of students experiencing mental health challenges receive the help they need from staff in their school. When they feel safe and supported, students have more capacity to be creative, innovative and open to learning.
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School Community Crisis Preparation & Support
This playlist contains resources that align with trauma-informed crisis preparedness, response and support. While ideally every school and district should have the internal capacity to respond effectively in a crisis, some traumatic events require outside assistance from professional with specific expertise in school crisis intervention. The guidance here is not a substitute for crisis team training, planning and more in-depth knowledge of the school crisis prevention and intervention process. Click on the links to go to each resource.
Vulnerable Decision Points (VDP) Worksheet
A vulnerable decision point is a specific decision that is more vulnerable to the effects of implicit bias. This Vulnerable Decision Points (VDP) Worksheet provides teams with a planning document to plan how to respond equitably during VDPs.
Trauma-Responsive, Healing-Centered Engagement Assessment Facilitator Guide
This is a step-by-step complementary guide for schools completing the Trauma-Responsive Schools Implementation Assessment (TRS-IA), which is a school-wide, evidence-informed quality improvement tool designed to help schools identify strengths and areas for growth in trauma-responsive practices. Developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the Treatment and Services Adaptation Center for Resilience, Hope, and Wellness in Schools, and the National Center for School Mental Health, the TRS-IA supports schools in creating safer, more supportive environments for students impacted by trauma.
The TRS-IA generates a detailed feedback report highlighting school strengths and areas for growth across eight domains. This report serves as a catalyst for action planning, programming, and policy development, helping teams build school cultures rooted in safety, equity, and healing.
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