Offers guidance to help those working with youth involved in multiple systems (YIMS) and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care. This resource guide uses two case vignettes throughout to illustrate the concepts within. It describes what trauma and recovery might look like for YIMS, trauma-informed practices that could be beneficial, using trauma-informed screening and assessment with YIMS, engaging in trauma-infromed case planning and intervention, and managing secondary traumatic stress for providers.

This fact sheet provides information on how secondary traumatic stress (STS) manifests itself in child welfare, the kinds of staff who are at risk for STS, and strategies for prevention of and intervention for STS.

Offers child-serving professionals information about secondary traumatic stress (STS). This fact sheet describes how individuals experience STS, understanding who is at risk, how to identify STS, strategies for prevention and intervention, and essential elements to address STS.

Is a companion document to the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies for Trauma-Informed Support and Supervision: Cross-Disciplinary Version offers further explanation, examples, and strategies for each benchmark. Supervisors can use this document to support their own growth and help put these competencies into action. There is also a list of supportive resources at the end of this document that offers further learning opportunities and more concrete strategies.

Describes how the sociocultural context and the experience of migration may impact the experience of STS and outlines specific strategies to strengthen protective factors to prevent, identify, and address STS in the workplace. Through case…

The Restoring Resiliency Response (RRR)© model supports child protection workers experiencing secondary traumatic stress following a critical incident to reduce the negative impact of the incident and accelerate recovery.

Pause First Academy is dedicated to helping frontline workers through resilience training, with a focus on holistic wellness, and work-life balance. Founded and staffed by those who have been first responders or have worked with first…

Documentary film based on interviews with nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, doctors, firefighters, first responders who rescue, assist, and help to heal the injured and traumatized—and also tell their own remarkable and often…

When you help people you have direct contact with their lives. As you may have found, your compassion for those you help can affect you in positive and negative ways. Use this assessment to reflect about your experiences, both positive and negative, as a helper.

Professional Quality of Life: Tools (Elements, Theory, and Measurement) for assessing and addressing Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Traumatization, and Vicarious…

Join Rebecca Bryan, DNP, for this 6.5-minute video on the practice of releasing what troubles you to help be present and focused in the moment.  

Teleconferences appropriate for a wide range of healthcare professionals provided through Rachel Remen's RISHI. RISHI’s mission is to contribute to healing the culture of health care through innovative educational programs and the…

The Sanctuary Model is an orgazational change model based on recognition that trauma is pervasive in the experience of human beings, not only on the people who seek treatment, but equally on the people and systems who provide that…

National Child Traumatic Stress Network - provides tools for this model focuses on providing effective supervision for professionals who may experience STS. It emphasizes open communication, regular check-ins, supportive feedback, and guidance to help individuals manage and process the emotional impact of their work.[i]

National Child Traumatic Stress Network - provides tools for this model focuses on providing effective supervision for professionals who may experience STS. It emphasizes open communication, regular check-ins, supportive feedback, and…

Workplace and Educational Resources can be accessed through online resource banks focused on addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress as a significant and serious occupational hazard.

Workplace and Educational Resources can be accessed through online resource banks focused on addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress as a significant andserious occupational hazard,

The STS Consortium is a group of researchers, trainers, practitioners and advocates with a common goal to advance the field of secondary traumatic stress towards health. The mission of this group is to promote and support organizational…

Self-Assessment of Culture in Regard to Privilege: Hot Spots, Hidden Spots, and Soft Spots offers a 1-page tool with guidance on rating yourself or your organization to identify: Hot Spots, Hidden Spots, and Soft spots around areas…

A guide to promote effective self-care tailored to the needs of social workers, including both individual and organizational approaches.