It is important that children and youth who have experienced trauma receive appropriate services based on evidence-based practices to support their healing. Child welfare professionals can connect children, youth, and families to these services. The resources on this page help professionals identify and implement treatment programs to meet the needs of children, youth, and families affected by trauma.
Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)
Describes ARC as a framework for intervention with youth and families who have experienced multiple and/or prolonged traumatic stress.
Children’s Institute
Describes a model of services that offer accessible, evidence-based, well-coordinated prevention, intervention, and treatment services for children and families who reside in high-need, low-resource communities.
Interventions
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Provides factsheets describing common therapeutic treatments, including information about their efficacy and intended populations, used to treat children and youth who have experienced trauma.
Recognizing and Treating Child Traumatic Stress
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Outlines the signs of traumatic stress, its impact on children, treatment options, and how families and caregivers can help.
Trauma and Violence
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Provides summaries of trauma-specific interventions based upon psychosocial educational empowerment principles that have been used extensively in public system settings.
Trauma Treatments
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Describes trauma treatments for children and youth ranging from rigorously evaluated interventions to promising and newly emerging practices.