Helpful TI Resources

Websites

  1. ACEs Too High: ACESTooHigh is a news site that reports on research about adverse childhood experiences, including developments in epidemiology, neurobiology, and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress. We also cover how people, organizations, agencies and communities are implementing practices based on the research. This includes developments in education,  juvenile justice, criminal justice, public health, medicine, mental health, social services, and cities, counties and states.https://acestoohigh.com/about/
  2. ACEs Connection: ACEs Connection is a social network that supports communities to accelerate the global ACEs science movement, recognizes the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience instead of traumatizing already traumatized people. https://www.acesconnection.com/
  3. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: OUR MISSION is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States. https://www.nctsn.org/
  4. Center on the Developing Child: We believe that advances in science provide a powerful source of new ideas focused on the early years of life. Founded in 2006, the Center catalyzes local, national, and international innovation in policy and practice focused on children and families. We design, test, and implement these ideas in collaboration with a broad network of research, practice, policy, community, and philanthropic leaders. Together, we seek transformational impacts on lifelong learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.https://developingchild.harvard.edu/about/
  5. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Trauma Informed Approach and Trauma Specific Interventions https://www.samhsa.gov/nctic/trauma-interventions
  6. Center for Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/index.html

Partner Organizations

  1. The Trauma Resiliency Collaborative: The Trauma-Resiliency Collaborative (TRC), founded in Salt Lake City in 2014 by psychiatrist Susie Wiet, MD, is an ad-hoc and open community-interest group composed of multidisciplinary professionals and paraprofessionals, who are dedicated to raising awareness to the relationships between health and resiliency and the serious effects of trauma and violence across the lifespan. https://trcutah.org/
  2. The Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice: The mission of the Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is to create a resilient, trauma-informed society where all individuals and families have the opportunity and the supports necessary to thrive.http://ctipp.org/
  3. ACEs Connection: ACEs Connection is a social network that supports communities to accelerate the global ACEs science movement, recognizes the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and promotes trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies in all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience instead of traumatizing already traumatized people. https://www.acesconnection.com/

Research Articles

Felitti VJ, Anda RF, Nordenberg D, Williamson DF, Spitz AM, Edwards V, Koss MP, et al.

The relationship of adult health status to childhood abuse and household dysfunction. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 1998; 14:245-258.

Clinician Resources:

Books

The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score In The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk,MD, explores the ways in which trauma rewires the brain and changes the way people experience the world. Trauma affects the mind and body immensely and prevents those affected from living in the present.

Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

A groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease autoimmune disease, and cancer—Childhood Disrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them.

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

A revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking work that changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work.

Waking the Tiger by Peter A Levine

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

Media Resources