LibGuides: Trauma-informed Teaching: Welcome

Trauma-informed Teaching

This guide offers library access to selected materials cited in Trauma Informed Campus and Classroom, Courses One and Two. "Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are significant childhood traumas that result in actual changes in brain development.Resilience is building strategies that help us each adapt to the challenges we face, to build a stronger toolkit of responses. Research has shown that building resilience can help a person overcome these traumas from the past.

Course 1: Trauma Informed Certification - Learn how to deal with the impact of trauma and build resilience, and open another vital path to creating equity for our students.
Course 2: Creating a Trauma Supportive Campus and Classroom - Transform your classroom, office, department, or family through resilience-based strategies. Using trauma-informed principles, the course teaches individuals to create the positive environment that is essential to lasting success.

Please contact Laura J. Clark, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Success and Professional Development, for more information on this training.

Resource Centers

Center for the Study of Social Policy
The Center for the Study of Social Policy works to achieve a racially, economically, and socially just society in which all children, youth, and families thrive. We translate ideas into action, promote public policies grounded in equity, and support strong and inclusive communities. We advocate with and for all children, youth, and families marginalized by public policies and institutional practices.
Center on the Developing Child (Harvard)
"The science of early childhood is a source of new ideas that could be used to develop more effective policies & services focused on the early years of life."
Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resource Center
"This website, developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies, provides resources from trauma-informed care leaders across the country to help improve patient outcomes, increase patient and staff resilience, and reduce avoidable health care service use and costs. While the site is geared toward health care settings, many of the lessons herein can be applied elsewhere, including in child welfare services, community-based organizations, and educational settings."