The following resources on child trauma were developed by the NCTSN. To find a specific topic or resource, enter keywords in the search box, or filter by resource type, trauma type, language, or audience.
Explores how systemic cultural and institutional structures have historically contributed to divisions in the U.S., often creating tensions between communities through policies and social dynamics.
Features Jared Martin, a Research Associate with the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, describing the use of implementation science to accomplish the goal of sustainability in conversation with Lorena Avitea, LCSW, a Trauma Informed Systems Specialis
Offers strategies to help parents and caregivers cope with collective traumas. This fact sheet also provides guidance on what parents and caregivers can do to care for their children as they cope. Updated May 2024.
Introduces the FOCUS Family Resiliency Program, a brief evidence-based intervention that is among the most widely disseminated family-based programs for military populations, and will discuss general issues in adapting it...
Explores how young people respond to community violence and the lasting effects of marginalization and hate-based trauma. This webinar discusses creative strategies to help youth process these challenges and build resilience.
Highlights the background, intended goals, role-specific workgroups, results of participation, and next steps of the summit.
Provides prosecution attorneys with knowledge about a trauma-informed approach to prosecution.
Provides an overview of the concepts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood trauma, highlights the gaps that remain in our understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity on mental and physical health...
Offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress.
Outlines some of the traumatic impacts that COVID-19 has had on children and families. This report breaks down some of the pandemic challenges that children, families, and child-serving agencies have faced and describes the NCTSN's response to COVID-19.
Features Jayda, a young mother who is battling feelings of inadequacy as the parent of a toddler. Jayda is struggling to balance life’s responsibilities while experiencing loss and loneliness following the incarceration of her partner Trevor.
Provides an overview of common pandemic-related stressors among children and families, highlights NCTSN efforts to mitigate these issues, and offers priority recommendations.