Provides an introduction to the NCTSN Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice Roundtable.
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Outlines the role of family engagement in creating trauma-informed juvenile justice systems.
Gives details about the growing number of girls in the juvenile justice.
Outlines the environment of care in juvenile institutions.
Offers some statistics about gang-involved youth and their exposure to traumatic events.
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.
Outlines the historical context of racial disparities and highlights how systems can move forward to reduce these racial disparities, including by framing the issue so that practical and pro-active discussion can move beyond assigning blame.
Explores the importance, clinical considerations, and approaches to assessing for psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress with youth in the juvenile justice population.
Provides guidance to judges and attorneys on how to recognize trauma and its effects on birth parents. This fact sheet helps judges and attorneys recognize the potential impact of trauma on parenting.
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.