Team Support and Resources
Team Support and Resources
Increase Psychoeducation
- Recommend team to increase psychoeducation on the effects of trauma for a trauma-informed approach
- For example, trauma-informed ways to view the youth’s behavior includes asking, “what is the youth communicating when they behave in this manner?”
- Examples of trauma-informed ways to assess dysregulating behaviors:
- Is the youth’s current threshold level not matched with the activity?
- Has the youth been participating in this activity for too long?
- Is the youth having difficulties communicating their thoughts with words?
- Does the youth have sensory difficulties associated with the environment?
Psychoeducational Resources
- Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD), Supporting Youth with Intensive and Complex Needs online training series
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OCALI (Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence)
Designed for those who support, instruct, work with, or live with someone with autism, the Autism Internet Modules (AIM) guide users through case studies, instructional videos, pre- and post-assessments, discussion questions, activities, and more. The user is required to create a free account in order to access the modules.
Learning modules for family and community regarding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
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The Wellness Project (Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities)
The Wellness Project is a collection of resources and practices to support and enhance your individual and organizational wellness and resilience. It includes a holistic system of wellness activities such as reading, listening, watching, cooking, connecting, moving, breathing, and resting.
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Ohio Minds Matter Website
An educational resource for coordinated, family-centric behavioral health care. Developed for both health providers and families to better understand the unique challenges associated with a child’s specific diagnosis and managing symptoms.
- Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities Information Specialists
Building Regulation and Co-Regulation
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www.kelly-mahler.com - The Power of Co-Regulation
Provides guidance on use of evidence-based supports that facilitate discovery and validation of each person’s unique interoception experience which in turn empowers people with self-understanding, self-regulation, health, well-being and social connection.
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Co-Regulation From Birth Through Young Adulthood: A Practice Brief
This brief builds on reviews of the theoretical and intervention literature to provide caregivers and program administrators with guidelines for effective co-regulation support at each stage of development. Based on work conducted by the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), described in a series of four reports referenced throughout the brief.
Grief Support Resources
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Rainbows for All Children
Supports children experiencing grief of all kinds through facilitated peer groups within their communities.
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The Dougy Center
Provide support and training to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.
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American Psychological Association (APA) Presentation: How Grieving Changes the Brain
Recorded presentation by Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.
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Resource Sheet on Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Grief, Death, & Dying (PDF)
A compilation of articles, books and blogs available to supplement your knowledge, skills and abilities to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they grieve anticipated and/or experienced losses through others or their own processes of death and dying.
Trauma-Informed Practice
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Trauma-competent Care (TCC) Initiative
Online resources for practitioners, facilities, and agencies to become competent in trauma-informed practices. Provided by the Ohio Departments of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and Developmental Disabilities (DODD) statewide TCC Initiative.
DODD Trauma Informed Care (TIC) website and toolkit
OhioMHAS Trauma-competent Care (TCC) Initiative website and resources
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Growing Resilience
The purpose of the Resilience Project is to help children and young adults who have experienced some sort of trauma.
A Companion Guide to Growing Resilience (PDF)
This companion guide is an e-book where each page is packed with learning materials centered on the path toward resilience for the entire team.
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ALSUP (Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems)
The ALSUP (Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems) is a discussion guide created to assist caregivers in identifying a child’s lagging skills and unsolved problems. Rather than viewing a child’s difficulties as attention-seeking, manipulative, coercive, unmotivated, lazy, or limit testing, lagging skills provide more accurate, productive, actionable lenses. (Accompanies the books The Explosive Child and Lost at School by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.)
Juvenile Justice Resources
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Competency Restoration Training Guide from Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (PDF)
An orientation guide for staff members who are new to providing competency restoration services within the Ohio state psychiatric hospital system.
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The Annie E Casey Foundation
The Casey Foundation advances practices and policies that improve the lives of children, young people and families.
Domestic Violence Resources
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Ohio Domestic Violence Network (ODVN)
Resources to use with youth and family who have experienced trauma and violence in relationships.
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Safe and Together Model
Resources to help child welfare and other professionals become domestic violence informed.
Reunification Resources
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Family Reunification Following Adolescent Sexual Abuse: A Step-By-Step Guide (PDF)
This guide describes steps for reuniting families in which an adolescent has sexually abused an immediate family member (often a younger sibling), or other family member living in the home, and subsequently has been placed outside of the home. The goal of reunification is to safely return the adolescent home and to full participation in family life following or during treatment.
Other Team Resources
- Family Need Hierarchy Matrix can help providers working with youth and family to identify strategies and techniques to use based on family’s needs (PDF)
- Family and Children First contact information
- Ohio Systems of Care for Families and Children website
- Wraparound Ohio
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Intensive Home based Treatment (Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services):
Intensive Home-based Treatment (IHBT) is a mental health service designed to meet the needs of youth with serious emotional disturbances who are at risk of out-of-home placement or who are returning home from placement.
IHBT Crisis Plan Template: Development of a plan detailing steps for risky behaviors:
- Spectrum Autism Research News article: Gender and sexuality in autism, explained
Reading Recommendations
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Trauma-informed Reading by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, and Oprah Winfrey
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Treating Explosive Kids, The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach
Treatment team members may find ideas and support in this book by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. and J. Stuart Ablon
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Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
by Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie C. Dietzel
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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
by Ross W. Greene
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.