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. For example, if you or your organization work with youth in foster care, you may find links in that area listed below to be helpful.
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This webinar describes the impact of chronic exposure to racial trauma on Black boys and men and shares how intergenerational trauma affects families and communities of color. It highlights pathways that can be considered to promote healing for boys and men of color who have experienced racial and developmental trauma.
Professionals providing community prevention services can use this guide to implement a TIR approach to their initiatives. The guide focuses on the effects of trauma and social determinants of health in boys and men of color. It also highlights effective models of TIR community-based prevention efforts.
In this series, NCTSN clinical and research experts address various issues at the intersection of culture and trauma in children and adolescents. Presentations address clinical, organizational, and staff training issues and describe unique challenges faced by specific populations at high risk for traumatic stress.
Behavioral healthcare clinicians and caregivers face unique challenges when working with Latinx youth who have experienced trauma. This webinar takes a nuanced approach to the diversity of Latinx cultures to help professionals use TIR strategies and tools when serving Latinx children and families.
This webinar by the National Latino Behavioral Health Association and SAMHSA focuses on trauma and delivering TIR care to Latinx communities. It reviews strategies for engagement and delivery of culturally informed services to Latinx individuals, focusing on SUDs. Available in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
This four-section guide offers information on the needs of refugees and immigrants who might have experienced trauma and it focuses on developing and implementing a TIR organizational self-assessment. The guide includes tools, tips, and specific examples for organizations to model.
This short paper provides clinicians with ten concrete actions on how to provide TIR care to refugee and immigrant youth.
This webinar series covers the impact of trauma on children during all phases of their migration journey. Led by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center in Boston, the webinars provide best practices for the culturally responsive and trauma-informed provisions of services.
This 6-page document provides facts about the socioeconomic, cultural, and mental health challenges immigrant youth face, in addition to concrete strategies organizations can adopt to support them. While the document is intended for schools, it can be used by any child-serving organization that wishes to become TIR.
This learning series offers concrete strategies and recommendations for providers working with LGBTQ+ youth who have experienced trauma. This webinar series discusses how to increase access to services, create a safe environment for care, and work with families and schools.
Professionals working with LGBTQ+ youth will find this two-part guide helpful to understanding the benefits of adopting a TIR approach. Part 1 examines the possible traumas LGBTQ+ youth experience, including the ubiquity of victimization and discrimination.
Professionals working with LGBTQ+ youth will find this two-part guide helpful to understanding the benefits of adopting a TIR approach. Part 2 focuses on implementing a TIR approach when working with LGBTQ+ youth.
This guide covers various of ways to apply TIR principles to ensure your organization is LGBTQ+ culturally competent. It covers small actions (e.g., making sure posters affirm the identity of clients) and more structural ones (e.g., reviewing policies and procedures to maximize inclusion of LGBTQ+ clients).
Child welfare professionals will find this 9-session program helpful to give foster parents the tools they need to play an active role in supporting children and youth who have experienced trauma. It includes an implementation guide, handouts, PowerPoint slides, a case manager guide, and other practical documents.
Pediatricians can use this AAP guide to support adoptive and foster families by ensuring they can 1) identify traumatized children, 2) educate families about trauma, 3) empower families to use a strength-based approach to recovery.
Child welfare professionals can use this webinar to further their knowledge about diversity-informed practices. The 1h30 webinar presents vignettes to highlight core concepts for enhancing diversity-informed practices and how they can be applied to child welfare practice.
This 30-minute video by the Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center describes how to use the film ReMoved to facilitate conversations with foster parents about what it must be like for children to be removed from their homes and enter the foster care system.
Providers can use this training curriculum to increase their knowledge on how to work with children and families who are living with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) and have experienced trauma. The training consists of a Facilitator Guide and a Participant Manual.
Professionals serving children with IDD can use this guide to implement a TIR approach to their everyday interactions with people with IDD, in addition to organizational policies and procedures. The Appendices provide exercises, checklists, and reflection questions to support the implementation process.
Mental health providers and other child-serving professionals will find this series helpful in understanding the specific challenges children in military families face and the cultural barriers military families face when healing from trauma.
Professionals working with military families will find this tip sheet very useful for the ten key concepts to provide TIR services. This tip sheet includes information on family separation, stigma about mental health care, access to programs, involving peers and civilian providers, and more.
Professionals working with young children in military families will find this Zero-to-Three guide beneficial to understand situations that military families may be experiencing. It can help to understand how to adopt a strength-based approach to the care you are providing children in your communication with parents.
Professionals that work in healthcare systems can use this brief to incorporate racial equity into trauma-informed care. This brief offers practical considerations to help health systems and provider practices incorporate a focus on racial equity to enhance trauma-informed care efforts.
Self-Assessment for Modification of Anti-Racism Tool (SMART) is an innovative self-directed quality improvement tool developed by the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP) to assist community mental health organizations in addressing structural racism.
Summary: Creating a space where everyone feels welcome can be difficult, especially since everyone has different needs. This Inclusion Toolkit will walk you through the process of creating a more inclusive and affirming environment for young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) and will also equip you with the policies and tools to back it up.
This podcast episode shares insight from the National Native Children’s Trauma Center (NNCTC) for those caseworkers and agencies that are working or will work with indigenous communities to support children and families.
This toolkit created by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center of Boston Children’s Hospital provides information about four core stressors that refugees/immigrants may face. It provides sample questions that can be used to guide an assessment of a particular youth or family’s needs.
This guide by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health is designed for staff in domestic violence programs and provides practical guidance for supporting parents affected by domestic violence in their parenting.
The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health created this trauma-informed tipsheet on tips for supporting children and youth exposed to Domestic Violence.
The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health created the Family-Centered Toolkit to help programs envision and implement an integrated approach that supports parent-child relationships and families with a range of culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and developmentally sensitive services.
Summary: This document provides issues to consider when working with Muslim youth in psychiatric care. It provides 11 principles that clinicians should follow when working with Muslim patients.
Summary: This toolkit offers an understanding how to work with Muslims experiencing stress and trauma in today’s changing political environment. It provides basic information to raise awareness of the needs of Muslim patients and strategies to incorporate in care in psychiatric practices.
Summary: This Guide is a sincere attempt to help teachers and guidance counselors in the assessment, assistance and support of students dealing with grief, fear and confusion as a result of Islamophobia and geopolitical issues. This Guide will assist educational professionals in understanding the impact of hate, war trauma, secondary trauma and terrorism.
Summary: “Islamophobia has individual, societal and structural manifestations, including extreme violence perpetrated toward Muslims”. In this paper, healthcare providers can learn about understanding and addressing Islamophobia through trauma-informed care.
This infographic explains in basic terms how racism in particular gets “under the skin” and affects learning, behavior, and lifelong health.
This Resource Guide provides information about specialized mental health services available throughout Massachusetts for LGBTQ2IA+ young people, that traditionally has had unequal access to health care services. The Resource Guide also aims to acknowledge the roles that intersectionality and social determinants of health play in the mental health outcomes of the LGBTQ2IA+ community.
This self-assessment tool was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NORC at University of Chicago, to enhance future work to support LGTBQ youth in schools, it is important to understand key considerations before beginning use of this tool (see Table 1).
In collaboration with The Medical University of South Carolina, these videos demonstrate common scenarios that you may encounter in your work at a healthcare organization. They address common questions and issues that arise for frontline and clinical staff. We hope these videos can provide a valuable training tool for healthcare staff looking for sample language and best practices.
This toolkit on social work with immigrant families provides community social workers with tools for trauma-informed services to immigrant families and may be useful to develop the capacity of staff to serve this population from a trauma-informed lens.
The Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC) of Boston Children’s Hospital presents a 9-part series on “Best Practices for Working with Refugee and Immigrant Youth Training Series for Mental Health Providers”.
In this session, attendees will learn how to enhance their communication approaches across cultures to promote refugee mental, social, and emotional wellness that will result in building greater understanding and connection with a focus on renewing refugee resilience throughout the acculturation process of resettlement.
In this webinar, participants will learn (or review) basic language for discussing and understanding gender-expansive and or transgender youth. They discussed the best ways to support, affirm, and advocate for these young individuals.