The following resources on Schools were developed by the NCTSN.
Presents a tiered approach to creating a trauma-informed school environment that addresses the needs of all students, staff, administrators, and families who might be at risk for experiencing the symptoms of traumatic stress.
Provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system.
Helps school professionals understand how trauma and substance use can affect students’ behavior, learning, and well-being within school settings.
Date: February 13, 2026
Author: Isaiah B. Pickens
Time: 10 minute read
Highlights the intersection between bullying and trauma and offers ways adults can help them feel safe and supported.
Offers practical tips for children and caregivers to stay safe online, recognize the risks of cyberbullying and AI misuse, and promote healthy, responsible digital habits.
Explores the complex relationship between bullying and trauma. Highlights how both targets and perpetrators can be affected by their environments and how these experiences shape emotional and behavioral responses.
Offers information regarding child sex trafficking to educational professionals.
Supports NCTSN sites as they implement, spread, and sustain evidence-based treatments, practices, interventions, and system changes to organizations that serve children and families who have experienced trauma.
Offers child-serving providers information about child neglect and trauma.
Identifies the core competencies that STS-informed supervisors in any discipline should have. This fact sheet defines terms, outlines benchmarks for each competency, and offers supervisors guidance on ways...
Is a companion document to the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies for Trauma-Informed Support and Supervision: Cross-Disciplinary Version offers further explanation, examples...
Links
[1] https://nctsn.org/resources/creating-supporting-and-sustaining-trauma-informed-schools-system-framework
[2] https://nctsn.org/resources/child-trauma-toolkit-educators
[3] https://nctsn.org/resources/substance-use-school-professionals
[4] https://nctsn.org/web-feature/how-gain-buy-schools-and-other-service-systems-through-trauma-informed-culturally
[5] https://nctsn.org/resources/nctsn-bullying-trauma
[6] https://nctsn.org/resources/nctsn-online-safety
[7] https://nctsn.org/resources/complexity-of-bullying
[8] https://nctsn.org/resources/child-sex-trafficking-a-fact-sheet-for-educational-professionals
[9] https://nctsn.org/resources/toolcit-curriculum-for-learning-collaborative-facilitators
[10] https://nctsn.org/resources/child-neglect-and-trauma-a-fact-sheet-for-providers
[11] https://nctsn.org/resources/secondary-traumatic-stress-core-competencies-for-trauma-informed-support-and-supervision-cross-disciplinary-version
[12] https://nctsn.org/resources/secondary-traumatic-stress-core-competencies-for-trauma-informed-support-and-supervision-cross-disciplinary-version-companion-document-strategies-and-resources
[13] https://nctsn.org/print/870?page=1
[14] https://nctsn.org/print/870?page=2
[15] https://nctsn.org/print/870?page=3
[16] https://nctsn.org/print/870?page=4