Provides staff in child-serving systems with best practices for trauma screening.
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Describes what comprehensive care for children in the child welfare system looks like.
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.
Discusses how child-serving systems can improve their response to the needs of youth that cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice.
Provides an overview of the application and utility of the NIRN Active Implementation Frameworks.
Addresses the complex issues and critical needs surrounding young traumatized children in the child welfare system and those who care for them.
Describes the prevalence and impact of trauma on children in the child welfare system and the rationale for trauma screening and assessment.
Provides information about how traumatic events often generate secondary adversities such as family separations, financial hardship, relocations to a new residence and school, social stigma, ongoing treatment for injuries, physical rehabilitation,
Describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents.
Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.