Simply Smiles Children’s Village

Learn about “a first-of-its-kind intentional community of native foster families serving the children most at-risk on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe reservation in South Dakota.” Resource Link:...

Results from the National Child Welfare Information Study, 2020

“The final report summarizes study findings and offers insights into the information habits of child welfare professionals who work in state and local child welfare agencies, with tribes, and in courts, and highlights how technology is informing their practice....

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

This volume includes the following research articles: Native Transformations in the Pacific Northwest: A strength-based model of protection against substance use disorder Partnering with American Indian communities in strength-based collaborative health research:...

Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: Hope in Resiliency

“We created this hour-long webinar because the effects of childhood trauma play out both personally for individuals, but also, have tremendous costs for society.  There is much that society needs to acknowledge about the inequitable experiences of our...

Remembering Trauma

“Remembering Trauma” was developed by the Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services and Interventions at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. The goal of the short film is to connect how complex trauma and misdiagnosis in youth frequently happens....

Health Connections Special: ACEs – Adverse Childhood Experiences

In this Health Connections Special, we explore the Adverse Childhood Experience Study, or ACE Study. The ACE Study found that the more adversity and trauma someone experienced as a child, the higher their risk of negative health outcomes as an adult—like diabetes,...