Trauma and Resilience

Welcome to the Navigation Essentials toolkit on trauma and resilience. Multi-system youth with developmental disabilities and complex behavioral health needs experience higher rates of trauma than the general population. Understanding how trauma develops, and how the brain and body respond are key to supporting multi-system youth. This Navigation Essentials toolkit introduces the possible root causes and triggers of trauma often experienced by youth and the impact trauma has on their learning. The toolkit also offers several foundational strategies and tools to support youth in both school and residential settings.

The Trauma and Resilience Navigation Essentials toolkit was developed in collaboration with Mary Vicario and her colleagues from Finding Hope Consulting, LLC. In this toolkit Mary guides you through the essential information on trauma and shares strategies to support resilience in the following videos. Associated documents included in the toolkit were developed by or adapted from Finding Hope Consulting, LLC materials and information.