Educators and support staff at all levels can explore and use data to support students experiencing trauma.
This resource provides a deep dive into developing, implementing, and evaluating trauma-informed and compassionate school policies. It highlights four “choice points” for education and mental health leadership: Names & Definitions; Platforms & Levers, Approach, and Match Process to Product. View Resource Organization: Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network
This e-book reviews reasons for and ways to enhance family engagement in efforts to provide comprehensive mental health services to children and youth in schools. View Resource Organization: Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
This webpage includes a collection of resources on Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), such as fact sheets and webinars for child-serving professionals and those who supervise staff who may experience STS. View Resource Organization: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
This resource provides key questions to ask when considering and selecting programs with specific decision-support tools.
This resource provides descriptions of trauma-informed programs across different tiers (in a multi-tiered framework) and available information about their implementation and evaluation/evidence. Click “View Resource” to access a webpage with this and other related resources from REL Appalachia. View Resource Organization: Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia
The handout provides information about the common symptoms of trauma, grouped into five main categories, as well as everyday strategies that educators can implement in the classroom to support students exhibiting symptoms of trauma. Click “View Resource” to access a webpage with this and other related resources from REL Appalachia. View Resource Organization: Regional Educational … Continue reading Common Trauma Symptoms in Students and Helpful Strategies for Educators
This resource presents everyday preventative strategies that educators can implement in virtual settings to support students’ social-emotional and mental health needs associated with trauma.
This series of two reports summarizes research on the impact trauma from exposure to violence can have on children’s learning, behavior and relationships in school, offers a framework can help educators create trauma-sensitive learning environments; and provides a process and tools for creating trauma-sensitive schools. View Resource Organization: Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
This webpage includes a collection of resources and events to support the well-being of educators and school mental health personnel, such as webinars and research briefs. View Resource Organization: Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network