Provides staff in child-serving systems with best practices for trauma screening.
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Focuses on addressing secondary traumatic stress experienced by child welfare staff, easing children’s transitions into foster care, and working with parents who have been impacted by trauma.
Describes the prevalence and impact of trauma on children in the child welfare system and the rationale for trauma screening and assessment.
Discusses findings from research on crossover youth and how traumatic stress plays a role in the trajectory of crossover youth, as well as implications for policy and practice.
Offers child-serving providers information about child neglect and trauma.
Details the importance of a holistic, multidisciplinary, multi-level approach to addressing the needs of youth with complex trauma in residential treatment settings.
Helps organizations assess their current practices in the context of serving children and families who have experienced trauma. It is an important part of an organizational transformation process to create trauma-informed organizations.
Discusses how child-serving systems can improve their response to the needs of youth that cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice.
Offers guidance to help those working with youth involved in multiple systems (YIMS) and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care.
Provides information for staff in residential treatment centers on how to understand behavior through a trauma lens.