Describes how young children, school-age children, and adolescents react to traumatic events and offers suggestions on how parents and caregivers can help and support them.
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Discusses how child-serving systems can improve their response to the needs of youth that cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice.
Summarizes findings from focus groups.
Highlights what ten things juvenile court judges should know to best meet the needs of traumatized children who come into their system.
Details the results of a nationwide survey of probation officers.
Provides an overview for juvenile justice staff on how to work towards creating a trauma-informed juvenile justice residential setting.
Outlines the importance of trauma-informed assessment and intervention in the juvenile justice system.
Outlines the role of family engagement in creating trauma-informed juvenile justice systems.
Outlines the historical context of racial disparities and highlights how systems can move forward to reduce these racial disparities, including by framing the issue so that practical and pro-active discussion can move beyond assigning blame.
Provides guidance to judges and attorneys on how to recognize trauma and its effects on birth parents. This fact sheet helps judges and attorneys recognize the potential impact of trauma on parenting.