More information about UCSF HEARTS and our approach to creating trauma-informed schools:
- Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS): A whole-school, multi-level, prevention and intervention program from creating trauma-informed, safe and supportive schools (article published in School Mental Health journal, download Word version from here)
- UCSF Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS) (chapter in Assessing and Treating Youth Exposed to Traumatic Stress by Victor Carrion)
- NowThis: Recognizing Student Trauma (video)
- NBC Today Show: This School Puts Mental Health and Relationship-Building First to Help Students Thrive (video featuring HEARTS at Bessie Carmichael School)
- ACEs Too High Article on El Dorado Elementary School
- Institute for Health Policy Forum: Addressing Trauma in School-Aged Children (30-minute video of HEARTS Director's keynote presentation)
- EdSource Article: Schools promoting 'trauma-informed' teaching to reach troubled students
- ASCD OpEd: A Year with COVID: Five Ways to Foster Well Being and Resilience in the Classroom
- Berkeley Conversations (University of California, Berkeley) - Trauma-Informed Approaches for Individual and Organizational Resilience (video focusing on resilience in the face of COVID)
- HEARTS Director's discussion with San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Heal San Francisco Mental Health Wellness Webinar (video of focusing on healing in the face of COVID)
- What Works for America Article: San Francisco's El Dorado Elementary School Uses Trauma-Informed & Restorative Practices; Suspensions Drop 89%
- Greater Good Science Center Article: How to Help a Traumatized Child in the Classroom
- Greater Good Science Center Article: How to Support Stressed-Out Teachers
- UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Article: UCSF Brings HEARTS to Children Affected by Trauma
- Fix School Discipline Toolkit for Educators
- Teaching Through Trauma
- Trauma Informed Education (video, Maryland State Education Association, 2016)
- Integration Heals Trauma (video, Niroga Institute)
- Transforming Trauma: Creating Safe and Supportive Schools (video, Keynote at Northern California Safe and Healthy Schools Conference, 2015)
- Addressing Trauma in Schools (video, Greater Good Science Center Summer Institute for Educators, 2014)
- Hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands: The ACEs/trauma-informed/resilience-building movement accelerates in the San Francisco Bay Area (ACEs Connection)
Resources and Web-Based Documents with Contributions from HEARTS Director:
- UCSF Emotional Well-Being Webinar Series: Well-Being of Youth and Young Adults (Dr. Dorado starts at 16:12)
- Recommendations Roadmap for California Proposition 64 Expenditures: Advancing Healing-Centered and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Promote Individual, Family, and Community Resilience
- Addressing Childhood Trauma and Toxic Stress (Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris and Dr. Joyce Dorado on Your Call, KALW radio show)
- Trauma and Child Welfare: Strategies for Preventing and Intervening to Promote Healing
- A Selected Review of Trauma Informed School Practice and Alignment with Educational Practice (CLEAR Trauma Center)
- Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom: A Resource for Educators (National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
- Trauma and Resilience: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit (Adolescent Health Working Group)
Web Resources for Trauma Informed Approaches in Schools:
- Massachusetts Advocates for Children: Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
- Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Volumes 1 and 2 (Susan Cole et al.)
- Trauma Informed Care Project: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Collaborative Learning for Educational Achievement and Resilience (CLEAR Trauma Center, Washington State University)
- Compassionate Schools: The Heart of Teaching and Learning
- Changing Minds:
- Videos, strategies, and resources for adults who work with trauma-impacted children and youth, developed by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Futures Without Violence, and the Ad Council
- Restorative Practices/ Restorative Justice
- Fix School Discipline Toolkit
- Mindfulness in Education
- Greater Good Science Center: Education
- Science-based wellness practices and information for those in education
Books on Trauma-Informed Approaches in Schools:
- Craig, Susan E. (2008). Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
- Craig, SE. (2015). Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Learning Communities Transforming Children's Lives, K-5. NY: Teachers College Press.
- Souers K., and Hall P. (2016). Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom. Alexandrea, VA: ASCD.
Web Resources for Promoting Equity and Racial Justice:
- Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom: A Resource for Educators (National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
- Empowering Educators website containing a guidebook with concrete strategies, instructional videos, and other pedagogic resources designed to support educators in helping their students engage in effective, courageous conversations about race and social justice
- Compilation of well-curated resources around cultural responsiveness and equity put together by the National Center for School Mental Health that is tailored for people who work in schools
- Summary of Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy's recommendations about how to talk about race and racism (differentiates the tasks of a white person vs. tasks of a person of color)
- Black Lives Matter website
- Abolitionist Teaching Network
- How to Be an Antiracist Educator
- Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning
- Embrace Race website with focus on raising a generation of children who are thoughtful, informed, and brave about race
- Resources for people with white skin privilege who seek to combat racism:
- Robin DeAngelo's 6-minute talk: Why "I'm Not a Racist" Is Only Half the Story (Robin DeAngelo is the author "White Fragility")
- Allyship information and resources from the Dismantle Collective
- Time article on responsibilities of white people around combatting racism
- List of 75 things white people can do for racial justice that contains actionable tips that can be implemented immediately
Books on Promoting Equity and Racial Justice for Educators and Other School Staff:
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Zaretta Hammond)
- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Christopher Emdin)
- The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation (Fania Davis)
- Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools (Glenn Singleton)
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We Think, Feel, and Do (Jennifer Eberhardt)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)
