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

The Building Community Resilience (BCR) model is an innovative, transformative approach that will foster collaboration across child health systems, community-based agencies, and cross-sector partners to address the root causes of toxic stress and childhood adversity, and build community resilience.
Published By: Center for Community Resilience, George Washington University
Published Date: 2017
Resource Type: Research
Sectors: Early Childhood, Health, Social Services

This toolkit is for child welfare staff, supervisors, and administrators who work with and on behalf of children, youth, and families who experience a natural disaster. It provides evidence- and trauma-informed guidance and resources for promoting positive outcomes for children and youth who experience natural disasters.
Published By: ChildTrends
Published Date: 2021
Resource Type: Toolkits
Sectors: Early Childhood, 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

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.
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Resource Type: Publications
Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Health, Justice, Social Services

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.
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Resource Type: Publications
Sectors: Education, Health, 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

This pamphlet presents findings from interviews with more than 450 residents and staff and 1400 organizational and individual trainings, and provides formative guidance and information about trauma-informed design principles and application.
Published By: Shopworks Architecture, Center for Housing and Homelessness Research at the University of Denver, and Group 14 Engineering
Published Date: 2021
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Design, Social Services

Summarizes the learnings from state trauma-informed collaboratives of child-serving systems and offers a framework for system-level and cross-system strategic planning and implementation processes for supporting trauma-informed systems change.
Published By: Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago American Institutes for Research
Published Date: 2019
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Early Childhood, Social Services