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Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE™)

Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE™) is a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive set of skills based on several strong evidence-based parenting programs. Provides free professional trainings, education, and technical assistance in evidence-based disaster mental health for youth. CARE uses specific skills for general use by all adults who interact or work with children, including those who have experienced trauma. Respond with CARE skills are designed to a) connect with children in a positive way, b) increase compliance with adult instructions, and c) decrease many problematic behaviors and reactions commonly noted after exposure to disasters or crisis events. It covers an overview of how crisis events, such as disasters, impact children across the age span and skills designed to improve relationships and reduce mild to moderate reactions.

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School Active Shooter Drills Mitigating Risks to Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health (2025)

Active shooter drills have become a standard practice in nearly all U.S. schools, yet their potential impact on students and educators has received limited attention. School Active Shooter Drills: Mitigating Risks to Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health explores how these drills are conducted and how to reduce potential harm while supporting school safety. Developed by a committee of experts in education, school safety, public health, pediatrics, child and adolescent development, psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, public policy, and criminology, this report provides an in-depth review of current practices and offers guidance. The report provides suggestions for implementing practices that promote prevention and preparedness while supporting well-being, and foster learning environments where students and staff feel safe, capable, and supported.

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School Wellness Resiliency Toolkit

The Resiliency Toolkit is a resource designed to promote resiliency in safe and supportive school and caregiving environments. This curated collection offers developmentally appropriate knowledge, tools, and guidance to help students, caregivers, and school personnel navigate both everyday challenges and broader systemic issues. The toolkit brings together best practices, reliable information, and trusted external resources to empower users as they identify needs, explore effective strategies, and access additional support.

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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.

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Re-framing and Understanding Staff Resistance to Advance Positive School Climate

This guide examines some common root causes of staff resistance, such as burnout, a lack of trust, and fear. It offers actionable strategies for leaders to mitigate the effects of resistance by encouraging them to recognize such resistance as a source of vital information that productively illuminates important gaps or opportunities in initiative implementation. By reframing their approach as one of openness and curiosity, leaders can create favorable conditions for school staff to support the school climate initiative. Questions throughout the guide provide opportunities for leaders to reflect on the best staff engagement approaches.

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We Need Trauma Informed Work Places

The past several years have been incredibly turbulent, as we’ve faced Covid, racial violence, political upheaval, environmental disasters, war, and more. Anxiety and depression have skyrocketed. Organizations have had to confront issues they never expected and find new ways to support their employees through repeated traumatic experiences. The reality, though, is that trauma is not new in our organizations. It’s not going away, either. Estimates are that six in 10 men and five in 10 women experience at least one trauma, and approximately 6% of the population will experience PTSD at some point in their lives. As we’ve seen the lines between work and home blur and a fundamental shift in our expectations of the places we work, organizations have struggled to provide the support and leadership their employees need. That’s why it’s so important to take steps now to build the cultures that can see them through current and future crises. To do that, we need to build trauma-informed organizations.

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Welcoming Schools for LGBTQ Students

HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program that provides LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. In addition to working with individual schools, the Welcoming Schools team works with districts to increase the internal capacity for districts to improve school climate by training facilitators within the district to deliver Welcoming Schools content to district educators.

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Welcoming Schools

One of the best ways to welcome students and families into your school community is to integrate high-quality texts into your classroom and school libraries. Welcoming Schools offers recommendations for diverse books for schools, libraries and home. Find books that reflect the rich diversity of people in your school and the world.

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