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Trauma and Healing
Those working in child welfare often work with children and adults who are healing from a history of trauma. This Innovation Stream focuses on understanding trauma, including how it affects development; relationships, especially children’s relationship with caregivers; and parenting.
Featured Resources
Helping Children Heal: Stabilizing Adoption and Foster Care by Supporting Children and Youth with Behavioral Intervention
In this Digital Dialogue, we discussed how unresolved trauma impacts children and youth and how the Behavioral Interventionist program supports adoption and foster care stability.
Supporting Children and Youth Coping with Unresolved Loss
Ambiguous loss can cause challenging reactions and affect a child’s behavior, relationships, and learning. Understanding ambiguous loss, its impact on children, and how to promote resiliency and healthy coping for them, is important for both child welfare intervention and prevention communities.
From the Field: Understanding and Responding Proactively to Polyvictimization
This document captures key concepts and discussion with the field on the special needs of individuals experiencing polyvictimization.
Complete List of Resources
Videos and Social Media
- Partners United for Supportive Housing
How does it change the game when you provide stable housing to families first, then address their other complex needs?
Tools and Tip Sheets
- From the Field: Are the Words “Toxic Stress” Toxic? [PDF]
A summary, resource list, and tools from our discussion of the downside of focusing on toxic stress. - From the Field: Understanding and Responding Proactively to Polyvictimization [PDF]
A summary, resource list, and tools from our discussion of the issue of polyvictimization. - From the Field: Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma [PDF]
A summary, resource list, and tools from our discussion of how to help young children who have experienced trauma. - From the Field: Community Approaches to Toxic Stress [PDF]
A summary, resource list, and tools from our discussion. - From the Field: Hatred, Hope, and Healing [PDF]
A summary, resource list, three poll questions, and a Q&A from our discussion.
Digital Dialogue Recordings
- NEW Helping Children Heal: Stabilizing Adoption and Foster Care by Supporting Children and Youth with Behavioral Intervention
In this Digital Dialogue, we discussed how unresolved trauma impacts children and youth and how the Behavioral Interventionist program supports adoption and foster care stability. - Supporting Children and Youth Coping with Unresolved Loss
Ambiguous loss can cause challenging reactions and affect a child's behavior, relationships, and learning. Understanding ambiguous loss, its impact on children, and how to promote resiliency and healthy coping for them, is important for both child welfare intervention and prevention communities. - Supporting Children and Youth Dealing with the Loss of a Parent or Caregiver
The loss of a parent or caregiver can have cascading impacts on child well-being. Learn more about how to work with caregivers so they can best support a grieving child.
External Resources
Partners
- Trauma-Informed Practice in Child Welfare
Child Welfare Information Gateway
This page provides information on building trauma-informed systems, assessing and treating trauma, addressing secondary trauma in caseworkers, and trauma training. - National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The Network’s website is a resource for the public, professionals, and others who care about children and are concerned about child traumatic stress. - Workforce Resources for Trauma-Informed Practice
National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
List of workforce development resources related to trauma-informed practice for child welfare practitioners, supervisors, managers, leaders, students, faculty, researchers, policymakers, and other professionals.
