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Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Child-Serving Professionals
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers child-serving professionals information about secondary traumatic stress (STS).
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NCTSN Resources
The following resources on Secondary Traumatic Stress were developed by the NCTSN.
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NCTSN Impact Newsletter: Winter 2018
Type: Newsletter
Includes articles that range from how NCTSN leadership and missions are linked with other trauma-focused organizations, such as the International Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress.
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Taking Care of Yourself
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers providers a list of ideas for self-care strategies to use after a difficult event. This checklist outlines the three basics aspects of self-care including awareness, balance, and connection.
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Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision
Type: Fact Sheet
Discusses the importance of quality supervision that organizations can provide to staff members at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS).
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Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress for CAC Workers
Type: Fact Sheet
Offers fundamental information about secondary traumatic stress (STS). This fact sheet gives CAC workers guidance on understanding STS, who is impacted, and what CACs can do to address it.
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Secondary Trauma and Child Welfare Staff: Guidance for Supervisors and Administrators
Type: Fact Sheet
Gives supervisors and administrators in the child welfare system the information on the importance of addressing secondary traumatic stress (STS).
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Secondary Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Organizations Employing Community Violence Workers
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides community violence workers with information about secondary traumatic stress (STS).
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Children and Domestic Violence: A Parent’s Self-Care and Self-Reflection
Type: Fact Sheet
Provides ideas about self-care for parents impacted by domestic violence. This fact sheet points out how stress can affect parents and provides suggestions on how to deal with that stress.
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NCTSN Impact Newsletter: Fall/Winter 2013
Type: Newsletter
Highlights the face-to-face NCTSN Advisory Board meeting, showcases a few of our Category III sites and the outstanding work they are doing in their centers, and discusses the impact deployment has had on one Network family, as well as other stories.
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Secondary Traumatic Stress for Educators
Type: Webinar
Describes risk factors for and signs of secondary traumatic stress in educators, as well as techniques for prevention and self-care.
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Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Operations Guide Appendix C
Type: Special Resource
Is the third appendix in the Psychological First Aid First Operations Guide (PFA). This appendix offers information on PFA provider care.
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Secondary Traumatic Stress and Provider Self Care in Disaster and Terrorism Settings
Type: Webinar
Addresses the potential for secondary traumatic stress in disaster and terrorism settings and outline some recommended actions for preventing and reducing the potentially stressful impact of this work on disaster mental health providers.