May was first declared as Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949. In 2006, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day was chosen as a special day during this month to focus on the mental health needs of children.
May was first declared as Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949. In 2006, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day was chosen as a special day during this month to focus on the mental health needs of children.
May was first declared as National Foster Care Month in 1988. Since then, May has been a time to acknowledge the contributions of foster caregivers and the needs of children in foster care.
Provides an introduction and overview to the NCTSN Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT). This fact sheet offers information on the CCCT including its strengths-based approach, learning objectives, its elements, and its case studies.
Highlights the importance of understanding the serious consequences that trauma histories can have for birth parents.
Highlights the importance for court-based advocates to understand the serious consequences that trauma histories can have for birth parents and the subsequent potential impact on their parenting.
Highlights the importance of understanding the serious consequences that trauma histories can have for birth parents and the subsequent potential impact on their parenting. This fact sheet is for child welfare workers.
Provides suggestions that resource parents can use to recognize how trauma may have impacted the way birth parents parent.
Highlights the importance of birth parents understanding the serious consequences their trauma histories can have on them and the subsequent potential impact on their parenting.
Explores how relationships with people with lived experience are essential to trauma-informed care by emphasizing the importance of shared decision-making, mutual respect, and authentic collaboration.
Articulates how a trauma-informed and anti-racist approach can and should drive the NCTSN's collaborative work.
Links
[1] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/public-awareness/childrens-mental-health-awareness
[2] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/public-awareness/national-foster-care-month
[3] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/core-curriculum-on-childhood-trauma-an-introduction-and-overview
[4] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/birth-parents-trauma-histories-and-child-welfare-system-guide-mental-health-professionals
[5] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/birth-parents-trauma-histories-child-welfare-system-guide-court-based-child-advocates
[6] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/birth-parents-trauma-histories-and-child-welfare-system-guide-child-welfare-staff
[7] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/birth-parents-trauma-histories-and-child-welfare-system-guide-resource-parents
[8] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/birth-parents-trauma-histories-child-welfare-system-guide-parents
[9] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/partnering-is-essential-to-trauma-informed-care-centering-and-compensating-lived-expertise
[10] https://www.nctsn.org/resources/nctsn-statement-of-network-values
[11] https://www.nctsn.org/Search
[12] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=176
[13] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=170
[14] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=171
[15] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=172
[16] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=173
[17] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=174
[18] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=175
[19] https://www.nctsn.org/Search?page=178