Understanding Trauma

Resources to Enhance the Understanding of Trauma’s Impact on Individuals and Communities

Self Study Resources

Websites

• CDC Violence Prevention Resources

• Harvard Center on the Developing Child:

  • General

  • Toxic Stress

  • Resilience

• Georgetown University Center for Child and Human development - Trauma Informed Care

• National Native Children’s Trauma Center

• Center for Youth Wellness:

  • General

  • ACEs and Toxic Stress

• PACEs Connection (formerly ACEs Connection)

• Trauma Sensitive Schools

• Trauma-Informed Care Project of Orchard Place (resource for consultation and TIC organizational self-assessment tool)

Infographics

• ECHO training

• ACEs Infographic from VetoViolence and CDC

• 3 Realms of ACEs

• Pair of ACEs from Ellis 2017

Online training MODULES

• Centers For Disease Control

• Public Health England and other partners

• Center for Youth Wellness, for primary care and integrated behavioral health providers

• ECHO online training

Reports

• Child Trends: How to Implement Trauma Informed Care to Build Resilience to Childhood Trauma from

• Bartlett and Stieber, 2019

• SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance of a Trauma-Informed Approach

Books

• The Deepest Well, Nadine Burke Harris, MD

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, MD

• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

• When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, by Gabor Maté, MD

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry, MD

Films (Both from KPJR Films):

• Paper Tigers

• Resilience

  • Bonus content https://kpjrfilms.co/paper-tigers/bonus-content/

Toolkits

• American Academy of Pediatrics Trauma Toolkit for Primary Care

• Administration for Children and Families Resource Guide to Trauma Informed Human Services

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators

VIDEOS

Epigenetics: Why Inheritance is Weirder than We Thought, from Minute Earth

HOW CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AFFECTS HEALTH ACCROSS A LIFETIME | NADINE BURKE HARRIS

How Do We Stop Childhood Adversity from Becoming a Life Sentence | Benjamin Perks 

Trauma and the Nervous System, from the Trauma Foundation