The following resources on Healthcare were developed by the NCTSN.
Provides a glossary of terms for healthcare providers to better understand the concepts within trauma-informed integrated care.
Offers a compendium of tools to guide medical professionals in effectively assessing and treating medical traumatic stress in children and families. This toolkit helps providers address the emotional, as well as the physical side of trauma.
Aids healthcare providers to recognize how trauma and substance use intersect and affect the health and development of children and adolescents in medical settings.
Supports mental health professionals in understanding the complex relationship between trauma exposure and substance use among youth and families.
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to medical professionals.
Supports NCTSN sites as they implement, spread, and sustain evidence-based treatments, practices, interventions, and system changes to organizations that serve children and families who have experienced trauma.
Identifies the core competencies that STS-informed supervisors in any discipline should have. This fact sheet defines terms, outlines benchmarks for each competency, and offers supervisors guidance on ways...
Helps organizations assess their current practices in the context of serving children and families who have experienced trauma. It is an important part of an organizational transformation process to create trauma-informed organizations.
Highlights key points for providers, family advocates, and policymakers to understand about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and child trauma. This resource was adapted from...
Provides a focus on Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Advocacy Center.
Gives you an inside look at the work done by individual and agency leaders.
Discusses the importance of quality supervision that organizations can provide to staff members at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS).