Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results

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.

This book is designed to do one thing: Create kids who are more comfortable talking about the sexual parts of their body.

Science also shows that providing stable, responsive environments for children in the earliest years of life can prevent or reverse these conditions, with lifelong consequences for learning, behavior, and health.

“Feeling like a monster? Colbie Caillat and Common recommend a calming breath.” This video walks children through “belly breathing” as a technique to cope with anger or anxiety.

Safe spaces is a free, online training designed to help individuals working with children and youth recognize and respond to signs of trauma and stress.

This article offers tips, strategies, and resources for talking with your child about dating, forming friendships, and treating one another with respect.