Highlights key points for providers, family advocates, and policymakers to understand about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child trauma. This resource was adapted from...
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Introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector.
Highlights findings and recommendations from the convening of an Institute of Medicine expert committee charged with identifying key steps to ensure evidence-based care is provided to individuals receiving both mental health and substance use serv
Offers information about how to work with children and use a developmental lens.
Explains how trauma, especially repeated interpersonal trauma such as sexual or physical abuse, affects a child's developing brain.
Offers a look at how the NCTSN has impacted the children and families it serves. This video includes snippets of Network members talking about being a part of the Network and how it has changed the work they do with children.
Highlights the need for clinicians and policy makers to understand the links between trauma and culture.
Is a collection of organizational assessment tools and processes, developed by the NYU Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation, that supported the evaluation and implementation of trauma-informed practices within public and private agencies t
Provides an overview of child traumatic stress and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Updated September 2023
Beyond the ACE Score: Perspectives from the NCTSN on Child Trauma and Adversity Screening and Impact
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...