Mimi Choy-Brown and Laura Soltani from the University of Minnesota highlight key lessons from the CIRCLE Project, emphasizing the importance of intentionally addressing trust and power when implementing multi-level interventions to support resilience among refugee and immigrant youth.
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Ingrid Mürrle of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress introduces a set of five implementation tools that agencies can use when bringing in a new practice.
Introduces the 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families, a research-based framework developed by the NCTSN to explain how trauma affects children, families, and the systems that support them.
NCTSN members Wanda Vargas and Sara Fernandez-Marcote discuss Core Concept 2: Life Experiences.
Explains how children of different ages may react to traumatic events and offers simple strategies for parents, caregivers, and communities to provide support and promote healing.
Explores Core Concept 2: Life Experiences, one of the NCTSN’s research-based Core Concepts for Understanding Child Traumatic Stress.
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.
Discusses the differences between acute, chronic, and complex trauma and how each trauma type uniquely affects children. Emphasizes the importance of recognizing their overlap to provide effective trauma-informed care.
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,
Explains how everyday sights, sounds, and experiences can unexpectedly trigger memories or emotions tied to trauma or loss. Helps caregivers understand these reminders and recognize how they may show up differently for each child.