Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

This webinar discusses the challenging dynamics of supporting a child's resiliency after experiencing sexual violence by a family member. It reviews ways that advocates and allied professionals can nurture resiliency.

This manual includes information on understanding trauma, responding to trauma survivors, trauma-informed care best practices, trauma-informed protocols (for hotline calls, intakes, support groups, exit interviews, safety planning and parenting), and vicarious trauma.

This document provides steps to help reduce anxiety.

This uncurriculum and facilitator’s guide was developed to promote resilience among teens and counteract negative factors that lead violence victimization/perpetration, sexual harassment, and gender based bullying.

This document provides the benefits of sharing your story to promote resilience.

This document provides multiple activities and events to encourage young people to work through challenges related to violence that informed the development of a community mural.

This mobile app provides exercises to help uses manage stress.

Defending Childhood: Protect Heal Thrive by the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, US Department of Justice (December 2012)

This paper examines the work of domestic violence programs within a "social and emotional well-being" framework. It first elucidates how domestic violence negatively impacts survivors' and their children's well- being, and which factors have been shown to restore this well-being over time. It then describes the Theory of Change that is at the foundation of domestic violence programs' work, and details how domestic violence programs creatively engage with survivors and their children to influence the factors known to promote their well-being.

This is a document provides information on helping children recover from trauma. It provides links to resources and training modules for early childhood educators.

Natural disasters such as tornados, or man-made tragedies such as bombings, can leave children feeling frightened, confused, and insecure. Whether a child has personally experienced trauma or has merely seen the event on television or heard it discussed by adults, it is important for parents and teachers to be informed and ready to help if reactions to stress begin to occur. This guide is for parents, caregivers, and teachers.

In this podcast series, Mary Louise Kelley is joined by Anne Menard and Eleanor Lyon to discuss a study focused on nonresidential domestic violence services.