Foster Facts and Resources For Families: Healing, Advocating, and Saving Young Lives
Becoming Foster Responsive: Foster Facts and Resources For Families (Healing, Advocating, and Saving Young Lives)
Trauma Breathing for Kids: A Practical Toolkit for Caring Adults
Trauma breathing is a simple, trauma-informed “belly breathing” practice that helps calm a child’s amygdala and nervous system. This toolkit offers step-by-step instructions and ready-to-use scripts for teachers, caregivers, law enforcement, health workers, and other adults who support traumatized children.
What Principals and Administrators Can Do to Keep Children Safe and Help Them Heal
Principals and district leaders are on the front lines of childhood trauma. This guide shows how to create trauma informed school climates, rethink discipline, strengthen mental health systems, engage families, use data, and advocate for policy change so vulnerable students are safer and more able to learn.
What Social Workers Can Do: Reclaiming Hope and Safety for At‑Risk Children
Child welfare social workers stand where children’s trauma meets family hardship and broken systems. This trauma‑informed guide shows how social workers can find invisible kids, demand real accountability, build strong teams, use mandated reporting with courage, support caregivers, protect themselves from burnout, and turn casework into lasting system reform.
Five Daily Habits That Help Traumatized Children Feel Safe at Home
Kids who’ve survived abuse or neglect don’t need perfect parents—they need calm, repeatable habits that make home feel safe. This guide explains five daily practices that lower reactivity, build trust, and help traumatized children feel safe at home, plus clear signs of trauma and next step resources for families.
What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives
Foster parenting is about much more than providing a bed. This guide shows caregivers how to insist on full trauma histories, document key events, advocate against medication‑only approaches, partner with schools and agencies, and use their lived experience to reform systems and transform children’s lives.
Children Watching War: The Hidden Trauma for Kids
Children are growing up with war in their faces, in real time, on every screen. This is what it does to them—and what adults can do in response.
April and Preventing Child Abuse in a Time of Rising Risk
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and in 2026 we’re facing a time of rising risk for children. Economic stress, untreated mental health needs, online exploitation, and overburdened child protection systems are all pushing more families to the edge, while the nonprofits and advocates children rely on are stretched thin. This April, “awareness” isn’t enough. We need honest data about how many children are being hurt, real support for families before crisis, and stronger tools for the people on the front lines—teachers, CASAs, clinicians, social workers, and neighbors—who see abuse first and are often the only ones who can stop it.
What You Can Do Series – What Social Workers Can Do
Social workers are the connective tissue of child protection, operating where trauma, helplessness, and institutional failure most acutely converge. Equal parts advocate, therapist, investigator, and bridge-builder, their roles are both the first line of defense and an agent of systemic change.
What You Can Do Series – What Therapists Can Do
Therapists—whether working in schools, clinics, community settings, private practices, or as part of multidisciplinary teams—are often the first, sometimes the only, professionals capable of translating the science of trauma into lasting recovery.