Resources
Child Sex Trafficking in America: A Guide for Child Welfare Professionals
This guide explains the critical role that child welfare professionals play in preventing and providing a comprehensive service response to victims of child sex trafficking.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Educational Resources
NCMEC provides safety and prevention resources focused on the topics of online safety, real-world safety, and how to handle a variety of situations including abduction and child sexual exploitation prevention.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Recommended Protocols for Schools
This resource by the Department of Education provides recommended protocols for schools to better identify, report, and work with students that may be at risk of commercial sexual exploitation.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexual Exploitation
A step-by-step informative guide on how to talk to children about sexual exploitation in an age-appropriate way.
ACES Aware: Screen, Treat, Heal
Clinical teams can use the ACEs Assessment to rapidly identify which patients are at highest risk for toxic stress and perform the next steps of a more complete, individualized assessment for each of them.
Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
Provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system.
What is Child Trauma?
Utilize this resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to better understand what childhood trauma is, trauma types, at-risk populations to help you become more trauma-informed.
How Trauma Affects Kids in School
This article explains signs of trauma, what kinds of trauma tends to affect kids in the classroom, and tips for educators to help children who've been traumatized.
Child Welfare System Turnover
A well-trained, highly-skilled, well-resourced and appropriately deployed workforce is foundational to a child welfare agency’s ability to achieve the best outcomes for the vulnerable children, youth, and families it serves.
Implementing a Trauma Informed Approach in the Classroom
As school leaders and educators, being equipped to deal with heightened and varying degrees of behavioral and mental health challenges (feelings of isolation, anxiety, grief, symptoms of traumatic stress, and much more) among all of our students is currently as essential as ensuring their academic achievement. So how do we support them in dealing with the uncertainty of these times, while bolstering their feeling of emotional safety?
SAMHSA: Understanding Child Trauma
Recognize the signs of child traumatic stress with the informative infographic developed by SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.
Trauma-Informed Classrooms
Created by Echo, this infographic provides the “Do’s and Don’ts” of creating a Trauma-Informed Compassionate Classroom.
Human Trafficking and Child Welfare
Children involved with child welfare are at risk for being targeted by traffickers. Therefore, it is imperative that child welfare caseworkers be at the forefront of efforts to identify, respond to, and prevent human trafficking.
6 Guiding Principles to a Trauma-Informed Approach
The CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR), in collaboration with SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC), developed and led a new training about the role of trauma-informed care aimed to increase responder awareness of the impact that trauma can have in the communities where they work. Use these 6 principles as a guide to create trauma informed spaces.
Trauma-Informed Support for Children
Echo Training provides an infographic that answers teachers’ questions of “What do I do” in terms of helping a child victim of trauma.
Trauma Nuggets
Echo Training provides an infographic providing “nuggets” of information about trauma on the body and mind.
Remove Online Child Sexual Abuse
Thorn is building technology to connect the dots between the tech industry, law enforcement, and government -- so we can swiftly end the viral distribution of abuse material and rescue children faster. Watch this Ted Talk to learn more.
4 R’s Framework for Trauma-Informed Approach
A useful method for understanding and deploying a trauma-informed approach similar to the model used by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The Truth About ACEs
ACEs are adverse childhood experiences. Research has shown a direct correlation between high ACE scores and human trafficking. A higher ACE score can be strongly linked to vulnerability and future victimization.
Trauma-Informed Schools: A System Framework
This resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network presents a tiered approach to creating a trauma-informed school environment that addresses the needs of all students, staff, administrators, and families who might be at risk for experiencing the symptoms of traumatic stress.
Supporting Trauma-Informed Schools to Keep Students in the Classroom
This resource describes a number of promising trauma-informed practices that were tested and implemented in five school- and district-based sites during the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Breakthrough Series Collaborative: Supporting Trauma-Informed Schools to Keep Students in the Classroom.
Building Relationships as a Foundation of Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools
This video highlights useful strategies for classroom examples of relationship-building and its positive impact on trauma-informed practice change in schools. Teachers share guidance on practicing empathy, patience, and engagement to build trust and strengthen relationships with their students and create and affirm psychological safety in their classrooms.