Trauma Safe Youth
Trauma effects millions of children per year. It impacts their ability to learn, play and develop. Trauma Safe Youth is a training program for educators, administrators and clinicians working with youth who have faced traumatic and overwhelming life events.
We offer resources, consultation, onsite and online training classes. The mission of our program is to help each child reach their fullest potential while increasing educator skills and enjoyment of teaching.
About Trauma
Trauma is a normal reaction to abnormal life events. Trauma is the psychological, behavioral, biological, and neurological changes that occurs after an extreme life event. An extreme life event is one in which the child feels their life or the life of another is in danger. Childhood is a time of major neuroplasticity that does not end until ages 22 – 24. Childhood trauma that is not addressed can effect the child for a life time.
Children with trauma have an increased risk for: smoking, teen pregnancy, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, learning deficits, incarceration, autoimmune disease, diabetes, and early death. The child who develops symptoms of trauma can feel isolated, alone, powerless and like the world is an unsafe place.
Traumatic events in childhood and adolescence are common and effect a child's ability to learn, achieve good grades, have a happy home life, and the child’s future.
We offer resources, consultation, onsite and online training classes. The mission of our program is to help each child reach their fullest potential while increasing educator skills and enjoyment of teaching.
About Trauma
Trauma is a normal reaction to abnormal life events. Trauma is the psychological, behavioral, biological, and neurological changes that occurs after an extreme life event. An extreme life event is one in which the child feels their life or the life of another is in danger. Childhood is a time of major neuroplasticity that does not end until ages 22 – 24. Childhood trauma that is not addressed can effect the child for a life time.
Children with trauma have an increased risk for: smoking, teen pregnancy, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, learning deficits, incarceration, autoimmune disease, diabetes, and early death. The child who develops symptoms of trauma can feel isolated, alone, powerless and like the world is an unsafe place.
Traumatic events in childhood and adolescence are common and effect a child's ability to learn, achieve good grades, have a happy home life, and the child’s future.
Youth Trauma Links
- David Baldwin’s Trauma Information Pages:
These Trauma Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic
stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and
dissociation, whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a
large-scale disaster. The purpose of this award winning
site is to provide information for clinicians and researchers in the
traumatic-stress field. Specifically, my interests here include both
clinical and research aspects of trauma responses and their resolution.
- Turning Gold in to Lead:
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest
investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood
maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. The study is a
collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego.The ACE Study
findings suggest that certain experiences are major risk factors for the
leading causes of illness and death as well as poor quality of life in
the United States. Progress in preventing and recovering from the
nation’s worst health and social problems is likely to benefit from
understanding that many of these problems arise as a consequence of
adverse childhood experiences.
- Trauma Center Links at Justice Resource Institute: Our
mission is to help individuals, families and communities that have been
impacted by trauma and adversity to re-establish a sense of safety and
predictability in the world, and to provide them with state-of-the-art
therapeutic care as they reclaim, rebuild and renew their lives.
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network(NCTSN):Out
mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services
for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the
United States.The NCTSN works to accomplish its mission of serving the
nation’s traumatized children and their families by: Raising public
awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on
the safety and healthy development of America’s children and youth.
Advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by
creating trauma-informed developmentally and culturally appropriate
programs that improve the standard of care. Working with established
systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law
enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family
service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma-informed
continuum of accessible care.
- The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies:
ISTSS is committed to supporting the dissemination and implementation
of evidence-based and emerging best practices for individuals suffering
from traumatic stress.
- Child Trauma Academy: THE CHILDTRAUMA ACADEMY CTA is a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, Texas working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education. We recognize the crucial importance of childhood experience in shaping the health of the individual, and ultimately, society. By creating biologically-informed child and family respectful practice, programs and policy, CTA seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children.