The Three E’s of Trauma
This brief video, part of Center for Childhood Resilience’s Introduction to Trauma course, explains SAMSHA’s definition of trauma, which helps us understand how trauma can impact students in our schools.
Whole School Trauma Programming
Conscious Discipline Brain State Model
A multidisciplinary approach based on three distinct brain-body states in adults and children that drive behavior.
Toxic Stress and Development
This video is part three of the “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” series from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
Understanding Trauma
This video explores the effects of trauma on children, highlighting signs such as emotional distress, behavioral changes, and relationship difficulties, while emphasizing the importance of recognizing these signs and providing a supportive, safe environment for healing.
Talking Circles: for Restorative Justice and Beyond
Learn how talking circles can serve other purposes beyond restorative justice, such as creating safe spaces, building connections and offering teachers a unique means of formative assessment. The article addresses four main areas of concern by providing background context and filling readers in on where the SEL movement has been, the strategic thinking that has guided CASEL field leaders and collaborators, and the possibilities for the future.
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Leaning In and Leading Out to Renew: Navigating Lived Polycrisis School Leadership
This guidebook comes out of 10 interviews with school leaders from Arizona, Southern California, and Northern California. Interviewees, from mental health counselors to HR directors to state leads of suicide prevention. The guide is divided into two parts: Part One “Leaning In: The Gifts and Challenges that Lived-Polycrisis School Leadership Evokes; and Part Two “Leading Out: Practices for Navigating Toward Recovery & Renewal, which offers guidance for school crisis leadership beyond immediate crisis response, through recovery, and toward renewal.
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Recognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services
This brief from the Praxis Project showcases the importance of addressing community trauma through identifying and making space for healing-centered practices that communities have evolved over time, acknowledging and understanding the roots of trauma, and addressing the persistent, structural causes of trauma. It describes how trauma shows up in our communities and institutions, how it can be addressed through community- centered healing, and the role that trusted partners can take in supporting community healing. Download a free copy of the brief from this link.
What Does a Trauma-Sensitive Middle/High School Look Like?
Watch this video to get an idea of what a trauma sensitive secondary school looks like.
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Building a Culture of Care: Section 3 of Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit
Section 3 of Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit. A trauma-informed, resilience-oriented school honors the need to prioritize the well-being of all staff. Compassion fatigue and burnout are increasingly prevalent when staff members work daily with students who are impacted by trauma and toxic stress. This reading aims to increase awareness and understanding of compassion fatigue, burnout, and compassion resilience. Learn about how to encourage wellness assessment and seek feedback from staff on resilient culture, implement individual and district-wide adaptations to promote resilience in staff.
Safe Schools, Thriving Students: Fostering Restorative Practices and Safe Communities
This webinar explores the growing evidence that shows the most effective way to improve school safety is by building supportive school communities that proactively protect against the perpetration of school violence.
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