In this Section

• Advocacy
• Health Care
• Mental Health
• Early Care and Education
• K-12 Education
• Post-Secondary Education
• Family Support

• Business
• Faith-Based Groups
• Child Welfare
• Criminal Justice and Judicial
• Domestic Violence
• Substance Abuse
• Child Abuse Prevention

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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 -- Facts for policy makers 
• 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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Physical and Mental Health

Health Care
The resources included in this section are particularly relevant for professionals working in the field of health care. Mental health professionals and other professionals who work in hospital or clinical settings and public health professionals may also find these resources relevant to their work.

• Dr. Stacey Neu’s response, UnityPoint Clinic, Family Medicine, East Des Moines
• Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris’ Center for Youth Wellness
  • A link to Dr. Burke-Harris' TED talk
  • CYW Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE-Q)
• Amazing Brain by Linda Chamberlain
• American Academy of Pediatrics: Toxic Stress Threatens Kids’ Long-term Health
• Domestic Violence in the health care setting
  • Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Programs, report from Maryland
  • Delphi Instrument for Hospital-based Domestic Violence Programs
• Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
• The Health Center at Lincoln in Walla Walla, Washington
• The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Public Health Response to Toxic Stress
• The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Healthy Foster Care America Trauma Guide

 

Mental Health
The resources included in this section are particularly relevant for mental health professionals. Other health professionals who work in hospital or clinical settings and public health professionals may also find these resources relevant to their work.

• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Circle of Security:
  • Website
  • Book
• Art therapy
• Play therapy
• Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC)
  • Overview document
  • Treating traumatic stress in children and adolescents: How to foster resilience through attachment, self-regulation, and competency
  • Attachment, self-regulation, and competency: A comprehensive intervention framework for children with complex trauma
• Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Strengthening hope and resilience everyday (SHARE)
• National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health: Creating trauma-informed services tip sheet series
• Birth Parents with Trauma Histories and the Child Welfare System: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
• Engaging women in trauma-informed peer support
• National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors National Center for Trauma Informed Care
• Self-care for trauma psychotherapists and caregivers: individual, social, and organizational interventions  
• Complex Trauma Treatment Network (CTTN)
  

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Education

Early Care and Education
This section includes resources for professionals who work with young children or their parents in early care and early education settings.

• Head Start Trauma Smart
  • A Model for Creating a Supportive Trauma-Informed Culture for Children in Preschool Settings
• Washington’s Family Policy Council Interviews with the Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Development, Faith, K-12 Public Education and Public Health Communities
• North Carolina’s 2,000 Days Campaign: Making the Case for Investing Early in Children’s Lives
• Early Childhood Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (EC-PBIS)

 

K-12 Education
The links in this section include resources for professionals in the Kindergarten through grade 12 education sector including teachers, aids, administrators, school counselors, staff and other professionals who work closely with educators or school-age youth.

• Compassionate Schools: The Heart of Learning and Teaching
• Safe Supportive Learning
• Non-violent Crisis Intervention Training
• Transformation of Children's Mental Health Services: The Role of School Mental Health
• Are the Children Well? A Model and Recommendations for Promoting the Mental Wellness of the Nation’s Young People
• The Health Center at Lincoln in Walla Walla, Washington
• Coping for Capable Kids: Strategies for Parents, Teachers, and Students
• New York Times articles:
  • Teaching Children to Calm Themselves
  • Separating the Child from the Trauma
• Washington’s Family Policy Council Interviews with the Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Development, Faith, K-12 Public Education and Public Health Communities
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources for School Personnel
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Resources for Schools to Help Students Affected by Trauma Learn
• Massachusetts Advocates for Children
• Trauma Sensitive Schools
  • Helping Traumatized Children Learn
• A Cedar Rapids, Iowa school district video on ACEs
• 2014 Developing Brain; Developing Accountability Conference presentations and resources​

 

Post-Secondary Education
The links in this section include resources particularly relevant for professionals in post-secondary education.

• Traumatic Exposure and PTSD in College Students
• PTSD Not Solely a Battlefield Issue for College Students
• Rates of DSM–IV–TR Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Newly Matriculated College Students

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Family Support
This section is relevant for family support professionals and other professionals who work with families, particularly families with young children.

• Lemonade for Life project in Iowa
• Adopting ACEs Screening and Assessment in Child Serving Systems, Working Paper
• Circle of Security
• Positive Discipline
• Family Resource Information, Education and Network Development Services (FRIENDS)
• CDC’s Essentials for Childhood Framework: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships and Environments for all Children
  • One-page overview

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Business
These resources are relevant for leaders in the business industry, professionals in human resources and management-level professionals interested in improving or maintaining positive work environments.  

• Trauma Informed Care Project
• Workplace wellness
  • Workplace wellness programs study
• Mental Health First Aid
• Employee Assistance Programs
  • Employee and Family Resources (EFR)​
• 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 
• North Carolina’s 2,000 Days Campaign: Making the Case for Investing Early in Children’s Lives

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Faith-Based Groups
This section is for leaders of faith-based groups or organizations interested in developing a faith-community response to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and traumatic stress.

• The Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships​
• United Way of East Central Iowa's ACEs page
• Creating Partnerships with Faith Communities to End Sexual Violence
• Mental Health First Aid
• UNICEF Partnering with Religious Communities for Children
• Faith in Violence-Free Families: Building Partnerships for Change
• Eastern Mennonite University Trauma Resources page
• Faith Trust Institute: working together to end sexual and domestic violence
• Compassion Capital Fund (CCF) – to strengthen the role of organizations in their ability to provide social services to low-income communities
• Clergy Self-Care by Episcopal Relief & Development
• Washington’s Family Policy Council Interviews with the Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Development, Faith, K-12 Public Education and Public Health Communities

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Child Welfare
The links included in this section are intended to inform human service professionals, foster and adoptive parents, and other professionals and individuals working in or involved with the child welfare system.

• Implementation of a Workforce Initiative to Build Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice and Services: Findings from the Massachusetts Child Trauma Project
• Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parent Association Trauma Informed Care​
• Iowa Training Source Child Welfare Provider Training Academy: Understanding Trauma
• The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Healthy Foster Care America Trauma Guide
• National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit 
• Birth Parents with Trauma Histories and the Child Welfare System: A Guide for Parents
• Birth Parents with Trauma Histories and the Child Welfare System: A Guide for Child Welfare Staff

• CDC’s Essentials for Childhood Framework: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships and Environments for all Children
  • One-page overview
• ​Trauma and Resilience: A new look at legal advocacy for youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems

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Criminal Justice and Judicial
The resources in this section are for professionals involved in the criminal justice system.

• 2014 Developing Brain; Developing Accountability Conference, Juvenile Justice-Related Resources
  • Conference Presentations
• Essential components of trauma informed judicial practice
• Trauma and Resilience: A new look at legal advocacy for youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems
• The Safe Babies Court Teams Project: Zero to Three
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Juvenile Justice System page
• National Domestic Violence Pro Bono Directory
• Police-Community Partnerships to Address Domestic Violence
• Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence Calls for Service report
• Mental Health First Aid
• Top 10 things every Juvenile Court Judge should know about trauma and delinquency
• Justice Policy Institute
  • Healing Invisible Wounds: why investing in TIC for children makes sense
• Non-violent Crisis Intervention Training
• Juvenile Corrections Reform in Hawaii; Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
• Trauma Informed Approaches in Correctional Settings; RSAT Training Tools
•  National Institute of Corrections: Creating A Place Of Healing and Forgiveness: The Trauma-Informed Care Initiative at the Women’s Community Correctional Center of Hawaii
• National Resource Center on Justice Involved Women: Using Trauma-Informed Practices to Enhance Safety and Security in Women’s Correctional Facilities​
• Washington’s Family Policy Council Interviews with the Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Development, Faith, K-12 Public Education and Public Health Communities
• Integrated Domestic Violence Courts from the Center for Court Innovation
• Birth Parents with Trauma Histories and the Child Welfare System, A Guide for Judges and Attorneys
• Learning About Us, Learning to Help Us; Supporting people with psychiatric disabilities in the criminal justice system

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Domestic Violence
The links in this section are for any professional who addresses the topic of domestic violence or who may come in contact with victims of domestic violence in their work.

• Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Futures Without Violence
• National Network to End Domestic Violence
• National Domestic Violence Pro Bono Directory
• Police-Community Partnerships to Address Domestic Violence
• Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence Calls for Service report
• Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Programs, report from Maryland
• Delphi Instrument for Hospital-based Domestic Violence Programs
• Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma – A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners Better Serve People With Multiple Issues
• University of Northern Iowa’s integrative services project
• Integrated Domestic Violence Courts from the Center for Court Innovation
• National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health, Creating Trauma-Informed Services Tip Sheet Series

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Substance Abuse
The resources in this section are for professionals who promote substance abuse prevention or treatment or for professionals who address the impact of substance abuse on individuals, families or communities.

• Curriculum-Based Support Group (CBSG®) Program
• Children of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (COSA)
• Community-Based Substance Abuse Prevention
• National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
• Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma – A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners Better Serve People With Multiple Issues
• University of Northern Iowa’s integrative services project
• Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Strengthening hope and resilience everyday (SHARE)
• Employee and Family Resources

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Child Abuse Prevention
The links in this section are for professionals who promote child abuse prevention or who work to prevent child abuse in families, communities or society.

• Iowa ACE Presentation and Interactive Online Learning Modules​
• Prevent Child Abuse Iowa
• CDC’s Essentials for Childhood Framework: Steps to Create Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships and Environments for all Children
  • One page overview
• Talking About child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
• Now What? Campaign
• Making a Public Case for Prevention Webinar
• Developing an Effective Child Abuse Prevention Message, Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Prevent Child Abuse America, Making the Case: Why Prevention Matters

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