Trauma Training Videos & Fact Sheets: Trauma Sensitive Approaches for Home and School

Trauma Sensitive Approaches for Home and School videos– produced by Formed Families Forward as part of our work with the Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports project. Under 10 minutes in length, each video provides an introduction to critical trauma content.

The videos include:
1) Understanding Trauma
2) Responding to Trauma
3) Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools

Three fact sheets are designed to support the Trauma Sensitive Responses at Home and School video series.

Individual Fact Sheets are available as separate documents, and all three fact sheets in one document. Accessible text versions of all fact sheets are also available in English and Spanish.

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  Video Series

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  Fact Sheets for Videos 1 through 3

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  Video 1 Fact Sheet Understanding Trauma

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  Video 2 Fact Sheet Responding to Trauma

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  Video 3 Fact Sheet Trauma Sensitive Schools

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  Video 1 Fact Sheet Understanding Trauma accessible version

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  Video 2 Fact Sheet Responding to Trauma accessible version

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  Video 3 Fact Sheet Trauma Sensitive Schools accessible version

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  SPANISH Video 1 Fact Sheet accessible version

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  SPANISH Video 2 Fact Sheet accessible version

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  SPANISH Video 3 Fact Sheet accessible version

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  ARABIC Video 1 Fact Sheet

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  ARABIC Video 2 Fact Sheet

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  ARABIC Video 3 Fact Sheet

What Formed Families Forward Can Do for You

Families formed by foster care, kinship care, or adoption, especially those raising children with special needs, face unique challenges. Formed Families Forward helps families find and navigate services here in Northern Virginia, including:

• Early intervention for infants and toddlers
• Instruction and support in schools
• Mental and behavioral health services
• Juvenile justice, courts, and detention
• Health and disability services
• Social services
• Transition through middle and high school to college, job training, and employment

Internet Safety Tip Sheet for Parents and Caregivers

From Formed Families Forward, this tip sheet covers 10 tips for helping to keep children and youth safe online.

Internet Safety for Teens Tip Sheet

From Formed Families Forward, 10 tips for teens to stay safe online.

How to Address Your Child’s Concerns about COVID

This Fact Sheet from Formed Families Forward in July 2020 pulls from a number of mental health and education resources to share specific strategies and suggested language to use with preschool children, school-age students and adolescents to address concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.

We thank our summer 2020 interns from GMU Clare Yordy and Austin Guske for their contributions to this resource.

Children and Trauma: What Can You Do? FFF Fact Sheet

Child traumatic stress refers to the physical and emotional responses of a child to events that threaten the life or physical integrity of the child or of someone critically important to the child (such as a parent or sibling). Traumatic events can overwhelm a child’s capacity to cope. Children may feel terror and powerlessness; they may act out. The fact sheet provides information to understand the types of trauma, potential responses to the trauma and ways to support a child who has experienced trauma.

Responding to Children Impacted by Trauma FFF fact sheet

It is often difficult for parents and caregivers to know how best to respond to their children’s behavioral and emotional needs. Download our fact sheet for proven strategies for responding to children impacted by trauma.

Foster Families: Did You know?

• Your child with a disability can get educational services
• You should help make important educational decisions for your foster child.
• You should be informed when decisions are to be made.
• Your child’s school should be helping solve behavior problems.
• School records from previous schools should be sent to a new school.

Adoptive Families: Did You Know?

• Your child with a disability can get educational services.
• You should help make important educational decisions about your child.
• You should be informed when decisions are to be made.
• Your child may get support services to benefit from special education.
• Your child’s school should be helping solve behavior problems.

Mental Health Needs in Formed Families

Virginia families formed by foster care, adoption and kinship care are much more likely than other families to need mental health care and supports.
The children and youth we care for are 3 to 4 times more likely to have behavioral and emotional disorders than children raised by birth families.

Our fact sheet has more statistics around mental health needs in Formed Families.

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

• What do parents and caregivers need to know?
• Does PBIS look the same for all students?
• What should be part of every school’s Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports approach?

Download our fact sheet for the answers.

Kinship Care: Rights and Responsibilities

For more information about informal and form Kinship care download our fact sheet.

Kinship Families: Did You Know?

• The child you care for can get educational services.
• You should help make important educational decisions about the child you care for
• You should be informed when decisions are to be made.
• Your child’s school should be helping solve behavior problems.
• School records from previous schools should be sent to a new school.