The 12 Core Concepts for Understanding Traumatic Stress Responses in Children and Families provide a rationale for trauma-informed assessment and intervention. The Concepts cover a broad range of points that practitioners and agencies should consider as they strive to assess, understand, and assist trauma-exposed children, families, and communities in trauma-informed ways.
| The following resources provides multiple trafficking screening tools that can be used with youth as well as questions to ask youth if you do not have access to other tools. |
This website has grief resources for kids, teens, young adults, parents/caregivers, living with an advanced serious illness and supporters of grievers.
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Resource for services providers to help eliminate biases while increasing support and awareness to help boys and young men thrive. There is additional resources listed, including: Understanding the Commercially Sexual Exploitation of Boys & Young Men & Understanding Commercial Sexual Exploitation of LGBTQIA2S+ Youth.
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This website gives an overview of student homelessness and housing, how this affects their mental health, and strategies for supporting the mental health of students experiencing homelessness.
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TCTY collaborated with ND Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program and ND Behavioral Health to develop a website for the training of the trauma screening tool: The University of Minnesota’s Traumatic Stress Screen for Children and Adolescents (TSSCA). Unrecognized and untreated child traumatic stress can lead to the development of trauma-related symptoms. These symptoms can persist and worsen over time, making it critical to identify them early.
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This website defines bullying and also lists out ways to prevent bullying, including additional resources on prevention and the Be Someone’s Hero short video.
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What is Complex Trauma? A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them.
Read moreThe University of Minnesota’s Traumatic Stress Screen for Children and Adolescents (TSSCA) is designed to provide clinicians, caseworkers, educators, and other staff with a tool for screening children and adolescents (ages 5-18 years) that have or may have experienced a traumatic event and are in need of services.
Read moreIn response to the recent events affecting our Fargo, ND community, NCTSN has created this resource guide for those seeking information on next steps.
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