FFF FACT SHEETS

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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    SPANISH Video 1 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

Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS) Fact Sheet for Families
June 04, 2025
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    MTSS Fact Sheet from FFF

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What Can FFF Do For You?
March 03, 2025

This one page sheet overviews Formed Families Forward’s services and resources.

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    What Can FFF Do For You? fact sheet

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Snapshot of FFF Services
February 01, 2025

This infographic summarizes FFF services, accomplishments and outcomes.

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    2024 FFF Snapshot inforgaphic


Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Families Say about Parenting FASD fact sheet
June 09, 2023

This Fact Sheet, produced by GMU Intern Charlotte Walmsley in Spring 2023, provides suggestions based on lived experiences of parents and caregivers raising children, youth and young adults with FASD. Links to additional resources are included.

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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.

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Internet Safety for Teens Tip Sheet

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

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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.

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    Children and Trauma fact sheet

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Responding to Children Impacted by Trauma FFF fact sheet

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

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Foster Families: Did You know?

This fact sheet by Formed Families Forward details what foster parents should know about the educational supports their child can receive.

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Adoptive Families: Did You Know?

This fact sheet by Formed Families Forward details what adoptive parents should know about the education supports their child can receive.

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Mental Health Needs in Formed Families

This fact sheet by Formed Families Forward discusses the mental health challenges that can affect foster, adoptive, and kinship families.

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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.

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Kinship Care: Rights and Responsibilities

This fact sheet from Formed Families Forward provides Virginia-specific information about rights and responsibilities for families providing informal and formal kinship care.

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Kinship Families: Did You Know?

This fact sheet details what kinship families should know about the educational supports their child can receive.

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