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An Online Resource Library on Gender-Based Violence.

For Other Helping Professionals

Childcare Providers

nctsn.jpgThe National Child Traumatic Stress Network Domestic Violence Collaborative Group developed a helpful series of 10 fact sheets that get to the heart of the experiences and needs of children exposed to domestic violence and their families, offering education in support of their resilience and recovery

Early Childhood Trauma

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

Right from the Start: Guidelines for Sexuality Issues, Birth to Five Years

Administrators will find these guidelines useful in developing policies concerning sexual issues within the preschool setting. The guidelines reflect a comprehensive approach to sexuality education and are organized into six key concepts: human development, relationships, personal skills, behaviors, health, and society/culture. Each key concept includes specific related topics and age-appropriate developmental messages.

Healthcare Providers

acestoohigh.pngACESTooHigh is a news site that reports on research about adverse childhood experiences, including developments in epidemiology, neurobiology, and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress.

Healthy Moms, Happy Babies (Second Edition): A Train the Trainers Curriculum on Domestic Violence, Reproductive Coercion and Children Exposed Kit was created to support home visitation programs to be equipped to help women and children living in homes with domestic violence. This  newly updated research-informed curriculum includes PowerPoint presentations with speaker’s notes, discussion questions, video clips, role-plays, and other exercises and a supporting bibliography

In this TED Talk, Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. It’s an impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Trauma Toolbox for Primary Care

This toolkit provides information for primary care providers to promote understanding of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and encourage providers to screen for ACEs and other traumatic events

Healthcare Toolbox

This toolbox provides resources and information to providers to help children and families cope with illness and injury. It provides the basics of trauma informed care.
Therapeutic Settings

The Power of Resilience is TED talk by Dr. Sam Goldstein about how his encounter with a child who faced adversity changed his understanding of resilience and his approach to services.

 

Juvenile Justice

Trauma and Resilience

This publication sets forth key risks of and opportunities for using research on trauma in youth advocacy. It focuses on legal strategies advocates can use in court, and the state and local policies needed to support these strategies.
Child Welfare

CWIG.pngThe Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more. 

Coping with Early Adversity and its Mitigating Effects is a video from the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare that features experts discussing the process that results in resilience in young children and the factors that can be put in place to bolster resiliency.

 

Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence - In-service Training for Resource Families, a Trainer's Guide and Tools

This resource is a basic training session on the dynamics of domestic violence, the impact of exposure to domestic violence (DV) on children, and strategies for supporting children who have been exposed to DV. It is appropriate for foster parents, kin caregivers, and adoptive parents with all levels of experience in caring for children who have been exposed to domestic violence, or who may have cause to care for these children in the future.