Resources
Online Curricula and Guides About Children's Exposure to Violence
From parents to law enforcement to agencies working with youth, children's exposure to violence is everyone's responsibility. Below are resources designed to provide action steps to anyone working to reduce and eliminate the negative impact of children's exposure to violence.
- Caregivers and Families
- Child Welfare
- Children and Adolescents
- Courts
- Cultural Diversity
- Domestic Violence
- Early Childhood
- Evidence-based Practices
- Fathers
- Homeless Children and Families
- Juvenile Justice
- Law Enforcement
- Mental Health
- Prevention
- School and Community Violence
- Youth Violence
Caregivers and Families
- Connect: Supporting Children Exposed to Domestic Violence - In-service Training for Resource Families, a Trainer's Guide & Tools
- Engaging Veterans and Families to Enhance Service Delivery: A Toolkit for Community Organizations
- Exposure to Violence Toolkit
- Family Engagement: A Web-Based Practice Toolkit
- A Family's Guide to the Child Welfare System
- Growing and Sustaining Parent Engagement: A Toolkit for Parents and Community Partners
- Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children's Exposure to Violence - A Guide for Families
- Strengthening Families and Communities: Annual Resource Guide
- Treat Them Like Gold: A Best Practice Guide to Partnering with Resource Families
Child Welfare
- Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
- Child Welfare Services for Families Experiencing Family Violence – Participant Manual
- Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit
Children and Adolescents
- Adolescent Brain Development: Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs Self-Directed Training
- Adolescent Trauma: Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs Self-Directed Training
- Adolescents and Intimate Partner Violence: Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs Self-Directed Training
- Authentic Youth Civic Engagement: A Guide for Municipal Leaders
- City Strategies to Engage Older Youth in Afterschool Programs
- Dating Violence: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention
- Lessons from Literature Online Curriculum
- Reaching and Serving Teen Victims: A Practical Handbook
- Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-led Response to Teen Victimization
- Understanding Links Between Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse: A Toolkit for Providers
Courts
- Child Sexual Abuse: A Judicial Perspective
- Domestic Violence Advocacy in Dependency Court: The Miami – Dade Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence Handbook
- Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures: A Judge's Guide
- A Judicial Checklist for Children and Youth Exposed to Violence
Cultural Diversity
- Adaptation Guidelines for Serving Latino Children and Families Affected by Trauma
- Breaking the Silence: A Training Manual for Activists, Advocates and Latina Organizers
- Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Implementation Guide
- Helping Children Who Witness Domestic Violence: A Guide for Parents (Instructor's manual)
- Promising Practices for Serving Crime Victims with Disabilities
- Raising Children in a New Country: A Toolkit for Working with Newcomer Parents
- Raising Children in a New Country: An Illustrated Handbook
- A Social Worker's Tool Kit for Working With Immigrant Families – Healing the Damage: Trauma and Immigrant Families in the Child Welfare System
Domestic Violence
- Addressing Domestic Violence in Indian Country
- Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Helping Battered Women in Contact with Current or Former Partners. A Guide for Domestic Violence Advocates
- CEV in the Home Toolkit
- Domestic Violence: A Competency-Based Training Manual for WIC and Other Nutrition Staff (online tutorials)
- Honor Our Voices: Children's Perspectives of Domestic Violence
- The Needs of Children in Domestic Violence Shelters: A Toolkit to Assist North Carolina Domestic Violence Agencies and Other Service Providers to Identify and Respond to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
- Realizing the Promise of Home Visitation: Addressing Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment – A Guide for Policy Makers
- Scenes from a Shelter
- Shelter From the Storm Curriculum: Clinical Intervention with Children Affected by Domestic Violence
Early Childhood
Evidence-based Practices
- Evidence-Based Practices for Children Exposed to Violence: A Selection from Federal Databases
- Improving the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs: A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice
- Putting the Pieces Together: Practical Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices
- Toolkit for Modifying Evidence-Based Practice to Increase Cultural Competence
Fathers
- Breaking the Cycle: Fathering After Violence. Curriculum Guidelines and Tools for Batterer Intervention Programs
- Fathering After Violence: Working with Abusive Fathers in Supervised Visitation
Homeless Children and Families
- Developing Trauma-Informed Services for Families Experiencing Homelessness: An Interactive Training Video and Guide
- Understanding Traumatic Stress in Children
- A Long Journey Home: A Guide for Creating Trauma-Informed Services for Mothers and Children Experiencing Homelessness
- Trauma-Informed Organizational Toolkit for Homeless Services
Juvenile Justice
- Information Sharing Toolkit
- Screening and Assessment in Juvenile Justice Systems: Identifying Mental Health Needs and Risk of Reoffending
- Youth Exposed to Domestic Violence: A Handbook for the Juvenile Justice System to Enhance Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Youth from Violent Homes
Law Enforcement
- Children Exposed to Violence: A Handbook for Police Trainers to Increase Understanding and Improve Community Responses
- Cops, Kids and Domestic Violence: Protecting Our Future
- Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
- Kids and Cops: Making the Connection (training video)
Mental Health
- Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents
- Cost of Caring: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Impact of Working with High-Risk Children and Families (online training)
- Don't Hit My Mommy! A Manual for Child-Parent Psychotherapy With Young Witnesses of Family Violence
- Models for Developing Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Systems and Trauma-Specific Services
- TF-CBT Web: A Web-based Learning Course for Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care: Building the Infrastructure: A Guide for Communities
- Recognizing and Addressing Trauma in Infants, Young Children, and Their Families
- Supporting Infants, Toddlers, and Families Impacted by Caregiver Mental Health Problems, Substance Abuse, and Trauma: A Community Action Guide
Prevention
- First Steps: Taking Action Early to Prevent Violence
- Principles of Prevention Online Training
- Training Professionals in the Primary Prevention of Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence: A Planning Guide
- Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
School and Community Violence
- The ABCs of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression
- Anti-Bullying Handbook: Creating a Positive Environment in the Classroom and Beyond
- Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action
- CEV in Schools Toolkit
- Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators
- Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: A Teacher's Handbook to Increase Understanding and Improve Community Responses
- Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment on our Nation's School Buses
- Fully Incorporating Prevention in Comprehensive Youth Violence Reduction Strategies
- How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery
- Preventing Gang Violence and Building Communities Where Young People Thrive: A Toolkit for Municipal Leaders
- Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools
- Safe Havens Training Curriculum: Helping Early Childhood Teachers Work with Young Children Affected by Community Violence
- Safe Schools Model Policy: A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Dating Violence and Sexual Violence in District of Columbia Schools
- Safe Schools ~ Safe Communities Planning Guide: A Toolkit for Community Violence Prevention Efforts
- Safe Schools ~ Safe Communities Safe School Planning and Law Related Issues: A Toolkit for Community Violence Prevention Efforts
- Safe Schools ~ Safe Communities: Pre-Planning Assessment Checklists
- Youth Leader's Toolkit: Resources for Teens Who Want to Help Younger Children Launch a Bullying Prevention Project
Youth Violence
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