Trauma Resources 

Websites for Students, Families, and Educators:

Child Trauma Tool Kit

Resources for Schools to Help Students Affected by Trauma Learn

Childhood Trauma: Tips for Parents and Educators

Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools

Books for Students, Families, and Educators:

Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma

In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, you will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing.

Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Children in the Classroom

"Help for Billy" is a pragmatic manual to help guide families and educators who are struggling with traumatized children. Based on the concept of the neuroscience of emotions and behavior, Heather Forbes provides detailed, comprehensive, and logical strategies for teachers and parents. 

Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers: A Guide to Providing Understanding and Help

This book explores the different reactions children may experience, and the impact trauma can have. Variables affecting the impact of trauma are explored and effective ways of helping children after a traumatic event are discussed.

Trauma in the Lives of Children: Crisis and Stress Management Techniques for Counselors, Teachers, and Other Professionals / Edition 2  

This book is for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child. 

Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

This book includes strategies to help education professionals understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom.

Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation

This book explains how educators need to build a positive learning environment shaped by the three Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.

Articles for Parents and Educators:

“Identifying Seriously Traumatized Children”

https://www.ousd.org/cms/lib/CA01001176/Centricity/Domain/85/OUSD_Crisis_Response_Handbook_Section_

VII_Resources_for_Teachers_and_Parents.pdf

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