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Designed for employers, this resource provides information on how your program can incorporate information about trauma and mental health into employment support.

This infographic explains Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and provides a few figures on the impact and prevalence of ACEs.

This resource describes how children of different ages may experience trauma reactions and provides suggestions on how to help depending on the developmental age of the child.

This article, aimed at providers, gives an overview of a neurodevelopmentally-informed approach to working with children and youth who have experienced trauma. It explains the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics.

This article provides an overview of how repeated traumatic stress impacts the body’s natural alarm system, how this alarm system can be triggered and what this may look like in a child’s behaviors.

This resource conveys information for professionals to help children that have experienced traumatic separation from a caregiver, highlighting potential post traumatic responses and ways to address them.

Designed for educators, this fact sheet explains how complex trauma can affect learning in school and how to support children that have experienced trauma.

A graphic that highlights the relationships between trauma, diagnoses and outcomes.

This infographic provides information on understanding cultural responsiveness to racial trauma for mental health providers.

This tool serves as a guide for practitioners to respond effectively to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

This figure provides information and ways to support someone who experienced trauma

A tool to assess an individual’s Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) score. This resource also provides information on how ACEs can impact behaviors and potential long-term effects if left unaddressed.

For providing mental-health services interpretation with a culturally responsive and trauma-informed approach. The target audience for this resource is 1) professional interpreters and 2) qualified mental health clinicians. This resource is designed to enhance service provision to speakers with no or LEP by providing a review of basic interpretation in the mental health setting, offering a socio-culturally, linguistically-responsive and trauma-informed approach to mental health interpretation and preparing interpreters and mental health clinicians to work together in partnership.

This resource defines resilience and how systems can support the growth of resilience in children who have experienced trauma.

This journal article examines how resilience is the most common response to trauma and what factors are involved with building resilience.

This resource uses the acronym ‘SAVE: Stop, Appreciate, Validate, and Explore’ as a guide for responding to survivors of trauma.

Sharing power is an approach to engage children, youth and families to share the knowledge and training of a provider with the lived experiences of the families. This source connects Sharing Power to Trauma-Informed Services.

Sharing power, or combining the knowledge of the human service professional and the lived experience of the individual receiving services, is a key part of trauma informed engagement. This worksheet includes a checklist for reflecting on agency and individual practices.

This tip sheet provides practical strategies for engaging individuals in conversations about traumatic experiences.

A traumatic events screening tool for children and adolescents.

This resource explains the “Invisible Suitcase” that children involved in the foster system may carry with them and provides suggestions for resource parents on how to address what is inside.

Tips and strategies for positive, effective engagement and planning for providers to talk about trauma.

A fact sheet for providers explaining how trauma can affect families and how to best support them.

This resource provides information on how trauma can affect the entire family and ways to cope with those experiences as a family.

This infographic translates a variety of practices and verbiage into a trauma-informed lens.

This infographic is an expansion of Sue’s taxonomy’s framework for microaggressions where 16 categories of racial aggressions are identified in order to help avoid traumatization.