Complex Trauma: In Urban African-American Children, Youth, and Families
Discusses how families living in racially and economically segregated communities must also cope with the effects of historical trauma and intergenerational racism.
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Discusses how families living in racially and economically segregated communities must also cope with the effects of historical trauma and intergenerational racism.
Features the Network’s data collection initiatives that included the collection and analysis of data from over 19,000 children served by NCTSN centers.
Describes how the film Removed gives foster parents a vivid picture of what it must be like for children entering the foster care system. This webinar provides information about how to use the video to facilitate a conversation about being removed from one's home.
Delineates the path from complex trauma exposure to involvement in the juvenile justice system.
Provides information on family resilience. This fact sheet discusses a family's ability to maintain or resume effective functioning, including care of its members following potentially traumatic events.
Provides the summary results of a 2016 NCTSN member survey about financial sustainability.
Is the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Public Service Announcement. This videos gives a brief introduction to the NCTSN, why supporting children and families who have experienced trauma is important, and what can be done.
Is the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Public Service Announcement. This videos gives a brief introduction to the NCTSN, why supporting children and families who have experienced trauma is important, and what can be done.
This video is the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Public Service Announcement. This video gives a brief introduction to the NCTSN, details why supporting children and families who have experienced trauma is important, and describes what can be done.
Affirms the importance of addressing the impact of historical trauma, including slavery, in the lives of African Americans in the U.S.
Complements the Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC). This course is for resource families who are considering attending a RPC training to help them determine whether it would be worth their time to attend an entire workshop.
Provides information for staff in residential treatment centers on how to understand behavior through a trauma lens.