The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Learning Center

The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCTSN) Learning Center has a section that provides free access to NCTSN experts and up-to-date, science-based information in the areas of assessment, treatment and services, training, research and evaluation, and organizational and systems change for traumatized children, adolescents, and their families. Continuing education credits are available for many courses in this expanding online catalog that has been developed for mental health professionals, parents and caregivers, policymakers, and others who work with and care about children and adolescents. The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists (APA Provider #1829). The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Topics included in the free webinars include the following.

• Applications of the CANS-Trauma and FANS-Trauma

• Atención informada en trauma: Cómo entender y abordar las necesidades de los niños inmigrantes no acompañados

• Child Physical Abuse

• Child Sexual Abuse

• Childhood Traumatic Grief

• Community Violence and Trauma: Supporting Youth and Building Resilience

• Complex Trauma

• Creating Trauma-Informed Systems

• Crossover Youth and Trauma-Informed Practice

• Culture and Trauma

• Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5

• Family Systems

• Implementing and Sustaining Evidence-Based Practice

• Integrated Care Approaches to Traumatic Stress in Children with Chronic Health Conditions

• Master Clinicians

• Partnering with Youth and Families in Trauma Settings

• Policy

• Polyvictimization and Complex Trauma

• Preparing Your Organization to Respond to Disasters and Terrorism

• Schools and Trauma

• Screening and Assessment for Trauma in Child Welfare Settings

• Screening and Assessment in the Juvenile Justice System

• Secondary Traumatic Stress

• Terrorism, Disaster and Children

• Terrorism, Disaster and Children: Hurricane Katrina 10 Year Anniversary

• The Role of Trauma Among Families Struggling with Substance Abuse

• Transforming Trauma in LGBTQ Youth

• Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children

• Trauma-Informed Integrated Healthcare

• Understanding the Complex Needs of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children

• Young Children and Trauma: Service System Collaborations

• Young Children in Foster Care

NCTSN also has created a resource page related to COVID-19. Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases. Overall, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations. These populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). When public health emergencies occur, there is rapidly evolving information that may be confusing and lead to feelings of anxiety. In the event of an outbreak in your community, your first concern is about how to protect and take care of yourself, your children and your family. Knowing important information about the outbreak and learning how to be prepared can reduce your stress and help calm likely anxieties. These resources will help you think about how an infectious disease outbreak or pandemic might affect your family— both physically and emotionally—and what you can do to help your family cope in times of public health emergencies.

NCTSN: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network