Resources:
Web Sites:
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Center on the Developing Child - Harvard
Salud America - Childhood Trauma
Sky Bridge Therapies - Occupational, Speech Therapy and more
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
Legal Resources
(Disclaimer: Hollis Consulting LLC has no partnerships with these folks nor do we receive any monetary compensation from them.)
While the area of legal issues is not our forte we strive to provide resources as they are brought to our attention. These two groups have put themselves out there as legal teams that care about birth injuries and their impacts on families. As we care deeply about prenatal and perinatal trauma and its impact on kiddos we feel that a balanced set of resources would not be complete without providing you with some kind of starting point for dealing with these things from a legal standpoint.
Birth injuries are instances of physical harm during childbirth directly caused by medical errors. There are many types of birth injuries, ranging from mild to severe. Birth injuries may cause irreversible damage there are groups that can provide you with legal resources to help address these kinds of injuries from a legal standpoint.
Prenatal Birth Injury Resources: Birth Injury Justice Center. - LINK
Sokolove Law Group - LINK
Lawfirm.com - An organization that offers free educational resources and access to an extensive legal network that’s vetted, experienced, and ready to help. Their stated goal is to help those that have been affected by nursing home abuse, asbestos-related diseases, and newborn disabilities. Link to Birth Injury resources
