Culture and Climate Programs
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Trauma Informed Practices Resources
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Resource Websites, Video, & Journals
1. VIDEO: What is Trauma-informed Practice?
2. The ChildTrauma Academy Website
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3. VIDEO: What is Trauma-informed Practice?
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4. SAMHSA National Center for Trauma-Informed Care and Alternatives to Seclusion & Restraint Webpage
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5. Childhood Trauma Changing Minds Website
6. VIDEO: Nadine Dr. Burke Harris – How Childhood Trauma affects health across the lifetime
7. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Website
8. VIDEO: Why We Need Trauma-Sensitive Schools
9. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS) Webpage
10. The Attachment and Trauma Network, Inc.
11. Sesame Street in Communities Webpage and VIDEOS
12. VIDEOS: Chronic Stress and ACES (Teacher Union Reform Network of AFT & NEA Locals & Partners
13. VIDEOS Part 1 & 2 (with Expert Commentary): Remembering Trauma Official Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13XamSYGBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l27l-wZ5a1c
14. VIDEO: Never Give Up: A Video by Youth for Youth
15. Research and Neuroscience-Mindful Schools Website
16. The Traumatic Stress Institute, a Division of Klingberg Family Centers Webpage
17. Center for Youth Wellness Website
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18. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Adverse Childhood Experiences Webpage
19. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Mental Health – Trauma- Sensitive Schools Webpages
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Strategies
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1. How to Help a Traumatized Child in the Classroom
2. 10 Things about Childhood Trauma Every Teacher Needs to Know (VIDEO embedded)
Articles
1. Helping Traumatized Children Learn: A Report & Policy Agenda Volume 1
2. Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Creating & Advocating for Trauma-Sensitive Schools Volume 2
3. The Heart of Learning and Teaching: Compassion, Resiliency, and Academic Success
4. How to Help a Traumatized Child in the Classroom
5. Unlocking the Door to Learning: Trauma-informed Classrooms and Transformational School
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6. The Mindful and Trauma Informed Classroom: Using Emotional Regulatory Healing in the Schools
8. How Childhood Trauma Affects the Brain
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9. Childhood Health and Development
10. The Neurosequential Model in Education and School Improvement
Books
1. Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning Research and Practice, edited by Joseph A. Durlak, Celene E. Domitrovich, Roger P. Weissberg, Thomas P. Gullotta, 2015
2. Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators, by Maurice J. Elias and Joseph E. Zins, 1997
3. Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning: What does the Research Say?, by Joseph E. Zins and Roger P. Weissberg, 2004
4. Effective Interventions for Social-Emotional Learning, by Frank M. Gresham, 2017
5. Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom: Promoting Mental Health and Academic Success, by Kenneth W. Merrell and Barbara A. Gueldner, 2010
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