Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

This document offers information to assist sexual assault programs with emergency preparedness and recovery planning. It includes the perspectives of experienced program managers and an expert on gender-based violence in disasters, as well as planning tools and resources.

This toolkit focuses on survivors of multi-abuse trauma - those who are affected by multiple issues that negatively affect safety, health, or well-being. It offers practical tools for advocates and community partners, such as health and mental heath care providers, to address the complex needs of survivors of multi-abuse trauma, no matter where survivors enter the social service system.

This mobile apps provides a place for young people to journal by writing, drawing, and using photos.

This toolkit includes resources on trauma-informed care, organizational assessment, and organizational change management. Resources guide the user through considerations for leadership and culture, trauma-informed care structure, policies and processes, employee skills and tools and resources.

This resource provides information about symptoms and protective factors for young children who have been exposed to trauma.

This issue focuses on positive change following adversity or the concept of posttraumatic growth. It provides a summary and analysis of research in this burgeoning area that brings together research from the trauma and positive psychology fields, offering another way to look at traumatic experiences focusing on the positive changes and growth that can ensue.

All three sermons extend the message beyond naming the abuse of women to a discussion of what are we doing about it in our own faith communities.

This article describes Dr. Sandra Bloom’s Sanctuary Model as an operating system that helps human services organizations function in a humane, democratic, and socially responsible manner.

Excerpts from the film "Boys and Men Healing" presents the perspectives and stories of men as they discuss their experiences of child sexual abuse. Their comments include challenges in disclosing their abuse, barriers in seeking help, and misconceptions about male survivors of child sexual abuse.

These materials highlight the work of one site in Virginia's Enhancing Services to Children and Youth demonstration project.

Rev. Dr. Fortune outlines the need for justice in order to allow victims of incest to heal from the trauma of childhood abuse. Truth-telling is central to finding and creating justice.

These materials highlight the work of one site in Virginia’s “Enhancing Services to Children and Youth” demonstration project.