C.teach is committed to equipping people with awareness of complex trauma as a major health issue and with the resiliency skills to proactively respond to adversity. Enhancing professional development opportunities for community partnerships, educational systems, and community organizations around the topic of complex trauma is a key mission of C.teach.
Videos
- Brain Lesson | WSU CAFRU
- Dr Daniel Siegel presenting a Hand Model of the Brain
- Neuroscience and School Reform: Transforming Learning Environments Using Brain Science
- Trauma and Behavior Part 1: “How Trauma Affects the Brain” |YouTube
- Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development
- Adverse Childhood Experiences | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- What is epigenetics? | Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna
- The Purpose of the Teenage Brain | Dan Siegel
- A Number Is Not Always A Number | YouTube
- Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective | YouTube
- Growing Into a Healthy Brain: Neuro-Development & Childhood Trauma | Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
- CLEAR Brain Video
Articles
- Child and Youth Victimization Known to Police, School, and Medical Authorities | Office of Justice Programs
- DNA Responses to Childhood Trauma Offer Clues on Which Children Will Have Long-Term Health Issues as Adults | Neuroscience News
- Can We Really Inherit Trauma? | The New York Times (nytimes.com)
- How to Build Community in Your Classroom in 5 Days (scholastic.com)
- 5 Principles of Trauma-Informed Workplaces | Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute
- Creating Trauma-Informed Systems | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, nationally, by state, and by race or ethnicity| ChildTrends
Podcasts
- How Trauma Lodges in the Body Revisited | Bessel van der Kolk | The On Being Project
- Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle | Brené Brown
Books
- Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom by Susan Craig
- The Whole-Brain Child by Dan Siegel and Tina Bryson
C.teach Research
- Building positive childhood experiences as a foundation for lifelong health and wellbeing research brief
- Our Community, Our Health, Our Future” Lecture Series:
- “Building and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Approaches in Schools” Brief Report
- Diverted Lives: How adversity compromises the post-secondary opportunities of Washington youth
- Association between ACEs and School Success in Elementary Children