“This comprehensive child welfare resource provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, and adoption from foster care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children...
“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....
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,...
“Reducing the effects of significant adversity on young children’s healthy development is critical to the progress and prosperity of any society. Yet not all children experience lasting harm as a result of adverse early experiences. Some may demonstrate...
The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University provides science-based information on a variety of topics, including what toxic stress is, how it impacts the developing brain, and how to build resilience. Resource Link:...
“Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; caretaking for others or ourselves; or engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service, just a few subtle shifts can help sustain us. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky,...
“Why get up in the morning to continue doing the work you do? What motivates you? One of the many things which motivates us is that people who have experienced homelessness and other traumas can and do heal. We know that this healing happens with the support of...
