NCTSN Resource
Toward Trauma-Informed System Change: A TARGETed Approach
Type: Webinar
Describes the purpose and design of the TARGET model of trauma-focused treatment.
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Justice System Professionals
Children who come to the attention of the juvenile justice system are a challenging and underserved population. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network has developed resources to help juvenile justice professionals understand and provide trauma-focused services to these youth. These resources include tools and materials for building skills and increasing knowledge about childhood trauma to help judges, attorneys, law enforcement, probation officers, frontline residential staff, mental health personnel, and caregivers understand and respond to the needs of traumatized children. In addition to the NCTSN resources highlighted below, Justice System Professionals can learn more about creating trauma-informed Justice Systems in the Trauma-Informed Care section of this website.
NCTSN Resource
Service Systems Brief: Creating a Trauma-Informed Law Enforcement System
Type: Fact Sheet
Focuses on creating a trauma-informed law enforcement system.
NCTSN Resource
Service Systems Brief: Judges and Child Trauma: Findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress...
Type: Fact Sheet
Summarizes findings from focus groups.
NCTSN Resource
Cops, Kids, and Domestic Violence Law Enforcement Training Video
Type: Video
Describes the impact of domestic violence on children. This video provides law enforcement officers with concrete information about what they can do when responding to the scene of a domestic violence call.
NCTSN Resource
Cops, Kids, and Domestic Violence Law Enforcement Training Video Support Materials
Type: Resource Guide
Provides links and resources for additional information to support the Cops, KIds, and Domestic Violence training video.
Partner-In Resource
Trauma ScreenTIME
Type: Website
Provides staff in child-serving systems with best practices for trauma screening. The online courses help child-serving staff identify and support children suffering from traumatic stress as early as possible and connect those in need with effective services.
Partner-In Resource
Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision Self-Rating Tool
Type: Special Resource
Is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in STS cross-disciplinary version.
Partner-In Resource
Family Partnerships for Juvenile Justice Professionals: Exploring Where to Start on a Key Piece...
Type: Fact Sheet
Explores ways a juvenile justice professional can improve the impact of their work through family partnering, why family partnership is critical to trauma-informed care, and how partnership can improve a juvenile justice professional’s effectiveness and job satisfaction.
Partner-In Resource
Primer for Juvenile Court Judges: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Judicial Decision-Making for...
Type: Special Resource
Introduces key factors that juvenile court judges should consider in order to take a trauma-informed approach when newcomer immigrant youth come before them in juvenile justice cases.