Resilience / Healing Content Topic Results
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Violence Prevention for Families of Young Children
Publisher(s):Designed for parents and caretakers, this booket describes the power of learning in early childhood, suggests principles to teach children that promote violence prevention, and provides skills for anger management and problem solving.
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Guide to Survival for Family and Friends of Homicide Victims
Publisher(s):This resource provides an overview of the most common feelings of grief and offers tips for coping with the reactions of others, coping with holidays, and coping with the criminal justice system.
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Safe Spaces-Foundations of Trauma-Informed Practice for Educational and Care Settings
Publisher(s):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.
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After the Storm - Tips for Parents
Publisher(s):The job of parenting can become even more stressful after a natural disaster. These one-pagers provide information on healthy coping strategies to help parents regain a sense of control. Available in English and Spanish.
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InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development
Publisher(s):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.
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Introduction to Trauma, Healing & Resilience: For Rabbis, Jewish Educators, and Organizers
Publisher(s):This guide aims to synthesize the wide and deep fields of trauma studies, trauma healing, trauma-sensitive education and resilience, and to present this material in ways that are clear, accessible, relevant and applicable to Jewish life, education, organizing and spirituality, in order to create a more just and compassionate world
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Reach Hurting Kids Institute
Publisher(s):Reach Hurting Kids Institute is an interdisciplinary team of researchers, mental health professionals, and children’s ministry experts who provide trauma-informed children’s ministry resources that empower the Church to reach the hurting kids in their congregations and communities.
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Raise Respectful Boys...Not Macho Men
Publisher(s):This article provides tips for parents and caretakers on how to resist traditional gender norms and raise healthier, happier sons and daughters. Specifically, the focus is on strategies for raising respectful boys.
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After the Storm - Tips for Adults: Healthy Relationships
Publisher(s):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.
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In Our Own Voice: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems
Publisher(s):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.
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Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist Trauma-Informed Organization
Publisher(s):This resource offers actionable principles and strategies that organizations can implement to make this move toward becoming anti-racist and trauma-informed.
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Building Accountable Communities
Publisher(s): This YouTube playlist by Barnard Center for Research on Women includes a series of four short videos featuring anti-violence activists in discussions on community accountability and transformative justice.









