​Please start by going to the Home page and clicking on the "What is Trauma?" and "Why Resilience?" buttons for the background of how trauma affects the brain.

Book Recommendations  

Help For Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom by Heather T. Forbes - LINK 
Fostering Resilient Learners; Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall - LINK  
​Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, and B. Bryan Post - LINK
The Trauma Informed School: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide for Administrators and School Personnel by Jim Sporleder and Heather T. Forbes, LCSW - LINK
Creative Interventions With Traumatized Children (Creative Arts and Play Therapy) by Cathy A. Malchiodi and Bruce D. Perry - LINK
Doodles, Dances & Ditties: A Trauma-informed Somatosensory Handbook by Mollie Heibert, Jennifer Platt, Kendra Schpok, Jessica Whitesel, and Bruce D. Perry MD, PhD - LINK

Children's Books

​Mikey and the Dragons by Jocko Willink - LINK 
​Way of the Warrior Kid by Jocko Willink - LINK
​Way of the Warrior Kid Marc's Mission by Jocko Willink - LINK 
​The Redo Roo by Cindy R. Lee - LINK 
The Elephant with Small Ears by Cindy R. Lee - LINK
The Penguin and the Fine-Looking Fish by Cindy R. Lee - LINK 
You Weren't With Me by Chandra Ghosh Ippen - LINK
Once I Was Very Scared by Chandra Ghosh Ippen - LINK
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst - LINK
God Made All of Me: A Book to Help Children to Protect Their Bodies by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb - LINK
Good Pictures, Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds by Kristen A. Jenson - LINK
Putting on your trauma lens
​means changing your thinking from
"What is wrong with you?" to
"What has happened to you?" 

National Websites

Trauma Sensitive Schools Free Training Package - LINK ​
  • National Center on Safe Supporting Learning Environments, free online training packages for teachers and administrators. 
National Child Traumatic Stress Network - LINK 
  • This website is a large clearinghouse of information, research and resources on Childhood Trauma, including causes and treatments. This link is specifically for Trauma Informed Schools Resources. 
Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU - LINK 
  • This website has information about Trauma and Trust Based Relational Intervention, all of which is very adaptable to the classroom. They host a simulcast every August for teachers to help apply these principles to the classroom. Look for local hosts who are showing the simulcast, or watch it from home for a small fee. 
​Beyond Consequences Institute - LINK
  • The organization of Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, author of Help for Billy and other books about dealing with children from hard places in schools. They have several books, online courses and a conference you can attend. 
ALIVE - LINK
  • Resources including the Miss Kendra program and others for schools.
Aces Too High - LINK  
  • Take the Aces test and get news and resources on the science and application of ACEs information. 
Attachment Trauma Network - LINK
  • Resources and consultation for creating Trauma Sensitive Schools.
Trauma Responsive Educational Practices Project - LINK 
  • Resources for Trauma Informed Schools and Classrooms from the University of Chicago.
Theraplay - LINK
  • They have group activities teachers can use in the classroom to promote social-emotional well being.
Beacon House - LINK
  • Good visual diagrams for understanding concepts of trauma.
Empowered to Connect - LINK
  • This is a resource page that comes from the Karyn Purvis Institute and includes resources, Q&A’s, and videos. They host a yearly simulcast conference for foster and adoptive parents every April.
SAMHSA - LINK
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - Safe Schools/Healthy Schools Initiative
PACEs Connection - LINK
  • Newsletters on the current science and interventions for ACEs. Connect with others in your community. 
​​Child Welfare Information Gateway - LINK 
  • Think link is to information for parents and teachers regarding issues around adopted children in the classroom. 
​Stress Health - LINK 
  • This is a great site made by the Center For Youth Wellness  in San Francisco and partners that gives basic education and tips for dealing with toxic stress and ACEs. This would be good to recommend to parents to learn more and self-evaluate. 
Alberta Family Wellness Website - LINK
  • This site has some great videos explaining the brain science behind the ACEs results. This is really an engaging and thorough site about early development of the brain and its involvement with later substance abuse and mental health. ​​
Sesame Street in Communities - LINK 
  • This website by Sesame Street has professional development for those who work with children and resources to be used with children on different topics, including traumatic events and resilience. 
Get Curious, Not Furious!

Oklahoma Websites

Ok25by25 - LINK
  • ​Coalition of Oklahoma groups for early childhood intervention. There are a lot of free school resources under the Our Programs tab of the website. 
Parent Pro - LINK 
  • Lists of tons of resources including in-home mentoring for Oklahomans. Check this out for when you need it!
​Sprouts Child Development - LINK
  • This Oklahoma nonprofit provides free Ages and Stages developmental screening tests from their website, they will score them and send results by email along with referral information if a child need further intervention.  Their goal is to educate parents and childcare workers about what normal development should look like and to promote early intervention when children are not meeting developmental milestones. 
The Halo Project - LINK
  • 10 week outpatient intensive training program for parents of adopted or foster kids to work on attachment and behavior issues. 4 locations near Oklahoma City. It is free to the families and supported by donations. It uses the TBRI principles of the Karyn Purvis Institute at TCU. This is excellent for referring caregivers who are having a difficult time. 
​Oklahoma State Department of Education - LINK
  • The OSDE has hosted conferences on Trauma Informed Schools. Keep checking for when the next one might be. ​​
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