Check out new training events now available
JDAI Trauma and Racial Equity Empowerment (TREE) Academy Train-the-Trainer Series
Please note that the first training session will be in-person on November 19, at Worcester Law Library 184 Main St. Worcester, MA 01608. Pending acceptance, please hold this date in your calendar.
TRAUMA-INFORMED &
RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY CAFÉ
An opportunity to strengthen Trauma-Informed and Responsive approaches
for community professionals.
Welcome to the Massachusetts Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma
Every experience a child has – positive and negative – can impact their future health and wellbeing. Learn how your organization can support healthy development and healing, particularly for children impacted by trauma.
Access resources and trainings to support a continued journey to becoming trauma-informed and responsive.
The Parents Under 25 toolkit was developed with insights and experiences from staff and parents both within the state of Massachusetts and nationally. It provides tools, approaches, and ideas for working effectively with parents under 25, and how to support them on their journey.
The Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma partnered with Thriving Minds—a collaboration between bryt, the Massachusetts School Mental Health Consortium, and the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy—to develop this toolkit on Trauma-Informed Practices for School Mental Health, newly updated August 2024.
Here you will find a toolkit for early childhood educators. It includes a training video, a brief self-assessment tool, and ideas to help you with particularly challenging issues, such as transitions and supporting children with emotional regulation.
The Racial Trauma Training provides interactive training on trauma and resilience for educators, school administrators, and other professionals working with youth in schools or in community programs.
We have identified a series of resources that may be helpful to you depending on the particular issue or children you work with in your organization. If you or your organization work with youth in foster care, you may find links in that area listed to be helpful.
The resources on the website are intended primarily for child-serving professionals, organizations, and systems. However, if you are a parent or caregiver, you can find information on this page on where to go to get support for your child.
Leading child health experts from Tufts Medical Center’s Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences have identified four building blocks that promote positive experiences that help children grow into healthy, resilient adults. We know that positive childhood experiences in these four areas can buffer against long-term negative health outcomes associated with adverse childhood experiences, and we want to help increase access to these opportunities for all children and families.
Relationships within the family and with other children and adults through interpersonal activities.
Safe, equitable, stable environments for living, playing, learning at home, and in school.
Social and civic engagement to develop a sense of belonging and connectedness.
Emotional growth through playing and interacting with peers for self-awareness and self-regulation.
Welcome to the Massachusetts Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma
Every experience a child has – positive and negative – can impact their future health and wellbeing. Learn how your organization can support healthy development and healing, particularly for children impacted by trauma.
Access resources and trainings to support a continued journey to becoming trauma-informed and responsive.
Click on any of the tabs below for information about – and access to – each section.
The Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma partnered with Thriving Minds—a collaboration between bryt, the Massachusetts School Mental Health Consortium, and the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy—to develop this toolkit on Trauma-Informed Practices for School Mental Health, newly updated August 2024.
Here you will find a toolkit for early childhood educators. It includes a training video, a brief self-assessment tool, and ideas to help you with particularly challenging issues, such as transitions and supporting children with emotional regulation.
The Racial Trauma Training provides interactive training on trauma and resilience for educators, school administrators, and other professionals working with youth in schools or in community programs.
We have identified a series of resources that may be helpful to you depending on the particular issue or children you work with in your organization. If you or your organization work with youth in foster care, you may find links in that area listed to be helpful.
The resources on the website are intended primarily for child-serving professionals, organizations, and systems. However, if you are a parent or caregiver, you can find information on this page on where to go to get support for your child.