Trauma-Informed Schools

Additional Resources

The following resources accompany the Trauma-Informed Schools Issue Brief section by section.

Childhood Trauma

ACE Study

• CDC-Kaiser ACE Study
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ACE Data

How Trauma Affects the Brain

• Center on the Developing Child: Harvard University:
  • Brain Architecture
  • Toxic Stress
  • Working Paper: Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain
• The Community Resilience Cookbook: How Adversity Affects the Developing Brain

Resilience

• Resilience Guide for Parents and Teachers (American Psychological Association)
• Protective Factors: Enhancing Resilience in Young Children and Families (The National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
• The Road to Resilience (American Psychological Association)
• Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope (Documentary Film)

The Power of a Caring Adult

• Changing Minds

Trauma-Informed Schools

Strategies for Trauma-Informed Schools & Classrooms

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn

• The Heart of Learning and Teaching: Compassion Resiliency and Academic Success
• Resources for Schools to Help Students Affected by Trauma Learn
• School Resource Officers: Steps to effective school-based law enforcement
• Addressing Childhood Trauma in DC Schools
• Trauma-Informed Classrooms & Transformational Schools

Secondary Trauma

• Secondary Traumatic Stress (Treatment and Services Adaptation Center: Resiliency, Hope, and Wellness in Schools)
• Secondary Traumatic Stress (The National Child Traumatic Stress Network)

Virginia Resources

• Greater Richmond SCAN Trauma-Informed Community Network
• Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports (VTSS)

SPOTLIGHT: State and National Examples

Richmond Public Schools Resiliency Partnership

• ChildSavers
• Greateer Richmond SCAN
• Richmond Public Schools

The Monarch Room

• Monarch-Trauma Informed Education
• The Adoption of the Monarch Room as an Alternative to Suspension and Expulsion in Addressing School Discipline Issues Among Court-Involved Youth

ACEs & Childhood Trauma News

• ACEs Connection (community & listserv)
• ACEs Too High (news site focusing on adverse childhood experiences)