Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

This resource explores the impacts of racial trauma in schools on youth and provides strategies for incorporating trauma-informed trainings and race-based equity services into the education system.

In the context of emergencies and disasters – and beyond – as advocates, service providers and social change agents, our work is the work of dismantling systems of oppression. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explores what it means to root our disaster prevention and response efforts in equity, mutual aid, and hope. 

For DVAM and beyond, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project calls on us to Heal, Hold & Center survivors, especially those navigating anti-Blackness and other systems of oppression. In this guide, you will find conversation starters, considerations, and prompts for personal and organizational reflection.

This Toolkit offers a variety of practical resources and tools to help build the capacity of adult survivors of children’s exposure to impact change through storytelling. Materials are accessible in a variety of formats to suit the diverse learning styles of this audience.

In this article, the author explains what trauma-informed therapy is, what therapeutic modalities may be best for teens who’ve experienced trauma, and how Charlie Health can support teens healing from trauma.

This resource explores how child protection agencies are implementing trauma-informed and healing-centered policies into their work and the impacts it has had on their agency. 

Spirituality is important to the holistic health of survivors and can be a critical component of a survivor’s healing journey. This TA Guidance package features two new publications that offer guidance to advocates and faith leaders working to promote spiritual health and allyship.

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.

Why is it important for us – advocates, healers, and social change makers – to practice radical self-love? In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), NRCDV's Patty Branco explores radical self-love as a pathway toward individual and collective transformation.

Dr. Manning contrasts general stress and trauma, emphasizing that betrayal trauma occurs within a primary attachment relationship (such as a marriage or long-term partnership). Because individuals depend on their primary partner for safety and stability, sexual betrayal shatters fundamental trust, triggering intense emotional distress, hypervigilance, and deep existential confusion.

Hosted by DomesticShelters.org, this webinar features licensed professional counselor Sybil Cummin detailing how abusive partners continue to exert power and control after a relationship ends through financial sabotage, legal systems, and domestic violence by proxy using children. She provides advocates and mental health professionals with actionable strategies to educate survivors, document covert abuse tactics, and restore survivor autonomy during high-risk post-separation periods.

This toolkit provides educational concepts and practical strategies to support team members (I.E., defined in this toolkit as employees, staff, workers, interns, fellows, C-suite leadership, human resources and administrative professionals, volunteers, committee and board members, etc.) in advocating for more trauma-informed workplaces.