Resources:
Web Sites:
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Center on the Developing Child - Harvard
Salud America - Childhood Trauma
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
HEALTHCARE
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris, MD - LINK
The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, MD and Maia Szalavitz - LINK
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD - LINK
SCHOOLS
Help For Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom by Heather T. Forbes - LINK
Fostering Resilient Learners; Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall - LINK
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, and B. Bryan Post - LINK
The Trauma Informed School: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide for Administrators and School Personnel by Jim Sporleder and Heather T. Forbes, LCSW - LINK
Creative Interventions With Traumatized Children (Creative Arts and Play Therapy) by Cathy A. Malchiodi and Bruce D. Perry - LINK
Doodles, Dances & Ditties: A Trauma-informed Somatosensory Handbook by Mollie Heibert, Jennifer Platt, Kendra Schpok, Jessica Whitesel, and Bruce D. Perry MD, PhD - LINK
CHURCHES
Created to Connect: A Christian's Guide to the Connected Child by Karyn B. Purvis, Michael and Amy Monroe - LINK
Adopted For Life by Russell Moore - LINK
Reframing Foster Care: Filtering your foster parenting journey through the lens of the Gospel by Jason Johnson - LINK
Everyone Can Do Something: A field guide to strategically rallying your church around the orphaned and vulnerable by Jason Johnson - LINK
Anchored: A Bible Study on Self Worth by Cindy R. Lee - LINK
What Is A Girl Worth? by Rachael Denhollander - LINK
We Too: How The Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis by Mary DeMuth - LINK
Rythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose by Rebekah Lyons - LINK
LAW ENFORCEMENT
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD - LINK
Trauma Informed Juvenile Justice in the United States by Judah Oudshoorn - LINK
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A guide for officers and their families - LINK
Good Cop, Good Cop: A get healthy, stay healthy guide for law enforcement by Brian Casey - LINK
Resilience in Law Enforcement: Peer support groups by Gerald W. Lewis - LINK
Armor Your Self: How to survive a career in law enforcement by John S. Marx - LINK
FOSTER/ADOPTION
The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family by Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross and Wendy Lyons Sunshine - LINK
Parenting From the Inside Out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive by Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell - LINK
Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential - And Endangered by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz - LINK
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber an Elaine Mazlish - LINK
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From the first hours together through the teen years by Patty Cogan - LINK
Dare To Love: The Art of Merging Science and Love into Parenting Children With Difficult Behaviors by Heather T. Forbes - LINK
Love Me, Feed Me: The adoptive parent's guide to ending the worry about weight, picky eating, power struggles, and more by Katja Rowell MD - LINK
The Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder - LINK
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene - LINK
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Mikey and the Dragons by Jocko Willink - LINK
Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink - LINK
Way of the Warrior Kid Marc's Mission by Jocko Willink - LINK
The Redo Roo by Cindy R. Lee - LINK
The Elephant with Small Ears by Cindy R. Lee - LINK
The Penguin and the Fine-Looking Fish by Cindy R. Lee - LINK
You Weren't With Me by Chandra Ghosh Ippen - LINK
Once I Was Very Scared by Chandra Ghosh Ippen - LINK
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst - LINK
God Made All of Me: A Book to Help Children to Protect Their Bodies by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb - LINK
Good Pictures, Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds by Kristen A. Jenson - LINK
