In this Section

• Community Development
• Advocacy
• Networking
• Cultural Awareness
• Social Determinants of Health
• Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Informed Interventions

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Community Development
The resources in this section focus on the development of community-wide systems to prevent and mitigate the impact of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress.

• Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention Response to ACEs Project
  • Framework resources
    • Tri-Ethnic Community Readiness Assessment
    • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• Building a Resilient Community -- United Way of East Central Iowa
• Strategies for community change and improvement
• Compassionate Seattle - Awakening compassion in our children, ourselves and our world
• Creating Compassionate Communities, Idaho
• Resilience Trumps ACEs
• Communities that Care
• Community Resiliency Cookbook
• Maine Resilience Building Network
• Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Strengthening hope and resilience everyday (SHARE)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach
• Project examples from Iowa
• Eastern Iowa-Western Illinois Trauma Informed Care Consortium

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Advocacy
This section includes resources which could be used by individuals, groups or entire communities to inform political leaders, legislators, and the legislative process around issues related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress.

• ACEs Connection, Iowa ACEs Action group
• Iowa ACEs issue brief
• The Neurobiology of Stress issue brief
• Promoting Resilience issue brief
• ACE Response policy examples
• Letter from Kathleen Sibelius: Helping victims of childhood trauma heal and recover
• Overview of state and federal legislation
• Vermont’s attempt to pass ACEs bill
• California legislature resolution to reduce ACEs
• Massachusetts bill on trauma-informed schools
• Early Childhood Iowa Advocacy Toolkit
• The Parenting Gap: justification for policy that wraps around and supports parents
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network and Public Policy
• National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health -- Creating trauma-informed services
• North Carolina’s 2,000 Days Campaign: Making the case for investing early in children’s lives
• Prevent Child Abuse America -- Making the case: Why prevention matters 

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Networking
This section includes links to professional and social networks with a focus on the topics of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), toxic stress, resiliency, and other related components of this work.

• ACEs too High
• ACEs Connection
  • ACEs Connection, Iowa ACEs Action group
• Eastern Iowa-Western Illinois Trauma Informed Care Consortium
• Maine Resilience Building Network
• Massachusetts Advocates for Children
• Resilience Trumps ACEs
• Community Resiliency Cookbook
• Project examples from Iowa

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Cultural Awareness
This section includes resources that acknowledge cultural groups and highlight the need for cultural sensitivity when working with diverse groups or communities on topics related to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress.

• Refugee Services Toolkit
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network resources in Spanish​
• ​Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Understanding Historical Trauma When Responding to an Event in Indian Country
• A conceptual model of historical trauma: Implications for public health practice and research
• Indian Country Diaries: Historical trauma may be causing today’s health crisis
• Wisdom of the elders: Transcending historical trauma
• Engaging women in trauma-informed peer support
• Commission on the impact of trauma and violence on the health of African American me
• ​African American Historical Trauma, Healing Brothers video​
• National Black Child Development Institute: Being black is not a risk factor

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Social Determinants of Health
The links in this section describe the influence of social factors such as poverty, race and socioeconomics, on health equity and lifelong health outcomes.

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Social Determinants of Health
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: A new way to talk about the social determinants of health document
• Association of Academic Health Centers and the Social Determinants of Health: A toolkit for collaboration 
• CDC social determinants of health page
  • The Social Ecological Model: A framework for prevention
• Prevention Institute
  • Spectrum of Prevention
• Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
• Commission on the impact of trauma and violence on the health of African American men​
• The Parenting Gap: justification for policy that wraps around and supports parents

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Trauma Informed Care
The links in this section describe the framework of Trauma Informed Care, which calls for a cultural shift that can be applied in any setting. Trauma Informed Care is not a specific intervention or a clinical response. Rather, it highlights the need for a broader understanding of the impact trauma has on everyone.

• Orchard Place Trauma Informed Care Project
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Center for Trauma Informed Care
• National Center for Trauma Informed Care

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Trauma-Informed Interventions
This section includes links to examples of specific interventions created through a trauma-informed lens.

• Center for Post Trauma Wellness
• Child Welfare Information Gateway: Trauma-informed practice

• Child Trauma Academy

• The Trauma Toolkit, Second Edition by the Public Health Agency of Canada
• Trauma Center Attachment Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC) Mode
  • Attachment, self-regulation, and competency: A comprehensive intervention framework for children with complex trauma
  • Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents by Margaret Blaustein and Kristine Kinniburgh

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

• Sanctuary model
  • Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Service Delivery Systems
  • Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies
  • Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach
• Engaging women in trauma-informed peer support
• Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parent Association trauma informed care
• Essential components of trauma informed judicial practice
• Eastern Iowa-Western Illinois Trauma Informed Care Consortium
• Trauma-informed approaches in correctional settings: Residential substance abuse treatment (RSAT) training tools

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