Defines child traumatic stress. This fact sheet gives an overview of trauma, describes traumatic stress symptoms, and ways children may be impacted.
Search
Offers some statistics about gang-involved youth and their exposure to traumatic events.
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.
Details the importance of a holistic, multidisciplinary, multi-level approach to addressing the needs of youth with complex trauma in residential treatment settings.
Describes the utility of screening and assessment for trauma in juvenile justice settings.
Discusses how child-serving systems can improve their response to the needs of youth that cross over from child welfare to juvenile justice.
Provides an overview of juvenile court evaluation procedures. This webinar highlights how PTSD and risk assessments are utilized within these evaluations and discusses ways to improve their use.
Gives an overview of current issues and challenges for law enforcement and the juvenile justice system in assisting children and adolescents who face commercial sexual exploitation.
Reports findings from research on crossover youth.
Outlines the need for trauma-informed screening in juvenile justice settings.