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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Whole School Trauma Programming
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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Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools (TIROS) Toolkit
The Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Toolkit from the National Center for School Safety outlines a framework for implementing these approaches in any school or school district. It utilizes tools, videos, professional development slide decks, and concise instruction to explain the concepts of trauma and toxic stress, offers individual
and school-wide strategies for addressing trauma and fostering resilience for students, staff, and families, and to assess the impact of these adaptations throughout the school community. The sections’ topics are presented in the order your school or district will likely start to address them. Sections 1 through 3 in this toolkit for the Informing level of work, which focus on: an introduction to trauma and trauma-Informed, resilience-oriented schools; practices and processes; and building a culture of staff compassion and resilience.
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Building Resilience and a Trauma Informed School
Baskerville Elementary is a public school located in North Carolina, in a small city setting that has seen many natural disasters in the past few years. Reada bout how their principal sought buy-in from the school community to create a trauma-informed school. A Resilience Team was built with leaders of the school to take the next step beyond training and awareness and begin to implement trauma-informed change and strategies school-wide. heck out additional learning and resources from the NC Center for Resilience and Learning
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Resilience Resources for Schools
The NC Center for Resilience and Learning is a whole school, whole child framework working with districts and schools across the state to create trauma-informed learning environments that are safer and more supportive for ALL students. Check out their Resource page for online courses, worksheets, and additional tools for your school’s resilience toolbox.
5 Strategies for Developing a Schoolwide Culture of Healing
While the term ‘trauma-informed care’ is important, it is incomplete,” says Dr. Shawn Ginwright. One of its shortcomings is that it leads people to think of trauma as only an individual experience instead of thinking about it in terms of systems or contexts. Ginwright explains how we need to have a broader perspective of how the environment – where young people live and play – can be traumatizing, This article describes 5 parts of healing centered engagement:
culture
agency
relationships
meaning
aspirations
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Developing Teacher Resilience & Resilient School Cultures
Teacher resilience in a pandemic is a timely topic for America’s superintendents. This literature review focuses on teacher resilience and retention, with relevance for building resilient school cultures. The question guiding analysis of studies was, “What factors and processes contribute to teacher resilience and the ability to overcome adversity?” Findings were that individual and contextual factors of resilience impact teachers’ ability to persevere, as well as schools’ capacity to retain novice teachers. Resilience is associated with retention, job satisfaction, and other positive outcomes. Actions for developing teacher resilience and resilient school cultures are identified. K–12 teachers who attend to factors of resilience can better adapt and overcome adversity. School district leaders who encourage teacher resilience can foster resilient school cultures
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Un Kit de Herramientas para Agencias de Bienestar de Menores para Ayuda a Jovenes a Durante y Despues de un Desastres
Este Kit de Herramientas es para el personal de bienestar de menores, supervisores y administradores que trabajan con y en nombre de niños, jóvenes y familias que experimentan un desastre natural. La información
y los recursos incluidos en el Kit brindan orientación basada en la evidencia e informada sobre el trauma para promover resultados positivos para los niños y jóvenes que han atravesado por desastres naturales.
Las 3 Es de Trauma (en Espanol)
Este breve video, parte del curso Introducción al trauma del Centro para la Resiliencia Infantil, explica la definición de trauma de SAMSHA, lo que nos ayuda a comprender cómo el trauma puede afectar a los estudiantes en nuestras escuelas.