This tip sheet features strategies for meaningfully engaging trauma survivors in state and local policymaking and program design. Learn more by watching the corresponding Pathways Learning Network session.
Published By: Pathways to Resilience
Published Date: 2022
Resource Type: State Action Plans
Sectors: Health, Justice, Social Services

This toolkit aims to support juvenile justice staff and administrators in their efforts to enhance state, tribal, territory, and county-led efforts to promote healing and resilience among system-involved children and youth who are exposed to a natural disaster. The toolkit is available in English and Spanish.
Published By: ChildTrends
Published Date: 2021
Resource Type: Toolkits
Sectors: Justice, Social Services

The purpose of this guide is to help those working with youth involved in multiple systems and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care.
Published By: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Published Date: 2022
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Early Childhood, Justice, Social Services

This bench card was developed by the North Carolina Chief Justice's Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts to help judges and court staff create more trauma-informed courtroom interactions, procedures, and communication.
Published By: North Carolina Judicial Branch
Published Date: 2022
Resource Type: Judicial Action
Sectors: Justice

One in seven children in the United States experiences child abuse and/or neglect each year, resulting in an array of adverse outcomes, including chronic pain, psychological concerns (anxiety, anger and aggression, depression, and suicidal thoughts or ideation), and poor or delayed social and behavioral development. There are a variety of risk factors surrounding child abuse and neglect including poverty, violence within the community, exposure to racism and discrimination, substance abuse, social isolation, and having caregivers who also experienced childhood adversity. Further, the trauma from these experiences can contribute to an intergenerational cycle of continued abuse and neglect. Child abuse and neglect has an estimated lifetime economic burden of over $590 billion nationwide – including short- and long-term health care and child welfare costs, criminal justice processes, special education costs, and lost productivity.
Published By:
Resource Type: Publications
Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Health, Justice, Social Services

The federal Department of Health and Human Services released findings from their 2022 convening on primary prevention that highlight the importance of moving from tertiary and secondary prevention strategies to primary and primordial prevention strategies, including programs and policies that prevent adverse outcomes from occurring.
Published By: Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Human Services Policy
Published Date: March 23, 2023
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Education, Health, Justice, Social Services

The NCJFCJ developed this protocol for promoting trauma-informed care in juvenile and family court settings. The document also includes recommendations for courts to become more trauma responsive.
Published By: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
Published Date: 2019
Resource Type: Judicial Action
Sectors: Justice

Published By: Pathways to Resilience
Published Date: January 2023
Resource Type: Executive Action
Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Health, Justice, Social Services

This webpage provides an overview of the mission and membership of the North Carolina Chief Justice's Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts.
Published By: North Carolina Judicial Branch
Resource Type: Judicial Action
Sectors: Justice

A showcase of Florida's 50 cutting edge trauma initiatives including in the justice, early childhood, and education sectors.
Published By: Florida State University
Published Date: 2018
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Justice