In response to the recent flooding, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network has the following resources to help families and communities.
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May was first declared as Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949. In 2006, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day was chosen as a special day during this month to focus on the mental health needs of children.
October was first declared as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 1989.
KIPS is a structured observation tool to assess parent-child interaction during play. KIPS assesses the parent's (or other significant caregiver's) behavior in the context of the child's needs.
This section includes key resources related to child trauma policy developed by external partners, national organizations, and federal agencies.
The intervention fact sheets linked from this page offer descriptive summaries of some of the interventions developed and/or implemented by members of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
The following resources on Economic Stress were developed by the NCTSN.
The following resources on Families and Trauma were developed by the NCTSN.
In any given year, approximately one million children come to the attention of the US child welfare system.
The following resources on child trauma were developed by the NCTSN.