Curated Resources: Trauma and Resilience

Curated Resources: Trauma and Resilience

Trauma-Informed Practice, FRIENDS/Child Welfare Information Gateway
Provides information on building trauma-informed systems, assessing and treating trauma, addressing secondary trauma in caseworkers, and trauma training.

Developing a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System, Child Welfare Information Gateway
This issue brief discusses the steps that may be necessary to create a child welfare system that is more sensitive and responsive to trauma.

Parental Resilience, Child Welfare Information Gateway
This page on the Child Welfare Information Gateway website provides information and tools focused on parental resilience building.

The Healing Guidebook, Anu Family Services and Alia
Focuses on providing concrete tools and a framework for those working to help youth heal from relational trauma.

The Science of Resilience, Harvard Center on the Developing Child
This short video from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child talks about what brain science tells us about resilience.

Applying the Science of Child Development in Child Welfare Systems, Harvard Center on the Developing Child
This guide provides an overview of how the science of child development can inform a resilience focused approach for children how have experienced trauma.