Healing-Centered Schools: Teachers as Leaders
This resource includes slides from presentation about Healing Centered Schools, whichi provdes an overview of this concept and how to start planning for implmentation.
Trauma Responsive
Helping Traumatized Kids Learn
This website houses lots of information, resources, videos, and tools to use in schools engaging in this work. Resources on the site are organized to support your inquiry into the following questions: What is a trauma-sensitive school? Why are trauma-sensitive schools needed? and How do we create a trauma-sensitive school?
Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates
This resource identifies five guiding principles and suggests actions schools and school districts can take to create inclusive, safe, supportive, and fair learning environments. The resource also lists federal resources to support these efforts.
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HEAL Together Toolkit
The HEAL Together Initiative by Race Forward promotes honest education, action, and leadership to combat racial inequities in schools. It provides resources and support for educators, students, and community members to advocate for inclusive and truthful curricula and policies that foster racial equity in education.
Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
Read about the initiative that supports city, county, and state governments and communities in moving from commitment to action for health, racial equity, and justice using the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation™ framework. Healing Through Policy is an initiative of the American Public Health Association, the de Beaumont Foundation, and the National Collaborative for Health Equity, in collaboration with Results for America.
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Grandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes
Article about how our ancestors’ experiences might change your personality, helping build anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain, and provides context around historical and generational trauma.
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Greater Good in Education
This website offers a collection of science-based practices related to SEL, character education, and mindfulness. Search their collection of free practices, such as creating a music playlist for your class cultivate emotional awareness and a sense of belonging and connection among students. There are lots of activities and resources to support adult and student well-being, as well as courses to learn how to put them into action.
Guided Imagery
Guided imagery is a relaxation technique that involves dwelling on a positive mental image or scene. It is a tool that students and school staff can learn and use at any time. Check out this free guided imagery app that is offered in 28 languages and 330 different animation combinations.
Frontline: Growing Up Trans
90-minute documentary – eight transgender kids, ranging in ages from 9 to 19, speak with striking candor and remarkable insight about their deeply personal experiences.
Futures Without Violence
Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow. Their website includes resources about social justice and healing from trauma.