Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

This edition of the InBrief series addresses basic concepts of early childhood development, established over decades of neuroscience and behavioral research, which help illustrate why child development, particularly from birth to five years, is a foundation for a prosperous and sustainable society.

This booklet offers practical concrete tips and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8 to 12 about some tough issues: sex and relationships, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.

Recovering after a natural disaster can be difficult and relationships can be strained. This one-pager provides several tips to help ease stress and maintain healthy relationships with those around you. Also available in Spanish.

This resource provides 8 ways churches can become trauma-informed and support children, young people, adults, and families who are experiencing or have experienced a traumatic event.

This toolkit offers a structure to support organizations as they build a trauma-informed and resilience-building culture within their organization.

Just Breathe: A Guide to Wellness was designed to offer practical assistance, inspiration, hope, and strategies for healing to survivors. The guide can be used to track progress, practice calming strategies, and provider reminder to take care of the basics throughout the healing journey.

This manual offers information on homelessness and trauma, the role of shelter providers, as well as implementing the 8 PFA Core Actions in shelter settings.

This handout teaches parents about their personal power and responsibility to protect children from sexual abuse.

This guide provides historical highlights regarding African-American survivors and mental health treatment in America; explores the themes shared in the collected oral histories; provides strategies for using history projects as a tool for personal and community healing and social change; and includes resources to assist you in starting your own history project.

Healing is a very individual process. Many Native people are returning to the traditional beliefs of their ancestors for healing. This resource describes some alternative/supportive healing and recovery processes other than mainstream approaches. Examples of ceremonies that survivors can take part in for their healing and recovery are also included.

This tip sheet lists suggestions for parents who want to help create safer schools for children, originally from the Department of Education's 1998 publication, Early Warning, Timely Response.

This resource describes common aspects of the grieving and mourning process for young children, and common feelings that a young child may experience as part of that process.