Resources For Educators
Tri-County Mental Health Services’ Prevention Staff enjoys providing technical assistance to local schools and educators. We believe that we can make a huge impact through this partnership. Our staff can provide educational workshops and prevention programming in your school.
Helpful Resources
Trauma: Toolkits, Guides,
and Websites for Trauma
Simple Ideas
for the Classroom
Helpful Websites
- ACEs Too High
- Center on the Developing Child
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Helping Traumatized Children Learn: A Whole School Approach
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Partnership to End Addiction–Medication Misuse: What School Professionals Should Know and Do
- Talk, They Hear You
- Over-The-Counter Medication Safety from Scholastic
Curriculum
- https://generationrx.org/
toolkits/teen/ - https://www.
operationprevention.com/ classroom - https://www.
discoverbrainbodybehavior.com/ educators - Lesson Plan Teens and Vaping: The Real Health Consequences. Students gather, analyze and select relevant evidence from multiple sources about the harmful effects of vaping. www.scholastic.com/
youthvapingrisks/ - National Institute on Drug Abuse
Books
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: Another Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook by Dr. Bruce D. Perry & Maia Szalavitz
- Trauma in the Classroom: Uncovering the Truth about Childhood Adversity by Stacey Sly
- Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them by Ross W. Greene
- Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom by Kristen Souers & Pete Hall
- The Trauma-Informed School: A Step-By-Step Implementation Guide for Administrators and School Personnel by Jim Sporleder & Heather T. Forbes
- 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward by Linda Curran
- Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt by Susan Craig