Resilient Tennessee Collaborative is part of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth and aims at utilizing the latest brain science to prevent and mitigate childhood adversity, promote trauma informed systems, and support resilient families and communities. They provide a variety of resources and trainings on topics such as ACEs and Building Strong Brains.

Visit this Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth webpage to review upcoming events and materials related to past events.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage describes how families, administrators, and educators contribute to a learning environment that recognizes the prevalence of trauma in students’ lives and takes proactive steps to create a safe and supportive atmosphere that promotes healing and resilience.

This Tennessee Department of Education handout describes schoolwide and family strategies to promote positive childhood experiences.

This National Association of School Psychologists webpage describes strategies to support students who are impacted by trauma and examples of resiliency factors which can decrease the impact of trauma.

This SchoolSafety.gov resource describes strategies to promote safe, supportive learning environments by recognizing the signs of traumatic stress, incorporating trauma-informed practices, and creating partnerships with families and community organizations.

This Institute of Education Sciences handout describes their online training series with videos and resources to help educators implement strategies to support students experiencing trauma.

This Center on PBIS document provides recommendations on how to align trauma-informed practices with Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) by realizing the impact of trauma, recognizing the signs of trauma, responding, and resisting re-traumatization, known as the “4 Rs.”

This Center on PBIS practice guide describes strategies to incorporate trauma-informed practices into the schoolwide system, which includes teaming, using data, selecting interventions, and providing support.

This Midwest PBIS document highlights how six schoolwide strategies support students impacted by trauma.

This Institute of Education Sciences resource describes interventions that support students who have experienced trauma.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center module includes specific prevention strategies and response strategies that can be aligned with your approach to incorporating trauma informed practices.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center module describes specific strategies and techniques to de-escalate an individual, ways to support a person in crisis, and the importance of staff care that can be aligned with your approach to incorporating trauma informed practices.

This Tennessee Department of Education document includes classroom strategies and schoolwide strategies to create safe and inclusive learning environments, empower student voice and choice, teach and support regulation, use discipline to teach and evaluate your program.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center recording focuses on creating schoolwide systems to respond to challenging behavior.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes a Responding Versus Reaching handout which shows how trauma–informed responses can directly replace traditional reactions by providing examples of exactly what to say to students.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center recording focuses on creating schoolwide systems to teach expected behavior and acknowledge behavioral success for all students.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center presentation describes the following preventative classroom management strategies: design the physical setting, develop routines, actively supervise students, and teach expectations.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center presentation describes the following preventative classroom management strategies: pre-correct and prompt behavior, provide opportunities to respond, use flexible learning groups, and provide specific feedback.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes a Classroom Strategies handout which describes specific elementary and secondary strategies related to the goals of trauma-informed responses to behavior.

This Center on PBIS practice guide describes proactive practices that support and respond to students’ non-academic needs along with specific examples, non-examples, and resources.

This Center on PBIS practice guide describes classroom practices and strategies related to prevention, response, teaching, and decision-making to support students’ non-academic needs across tiers.

This Center on PBIS practice guide describes how a classroom matrix can be used to teach predictable classroom routines; positive classroom expectations; and social, emotional, and behavioral skills.

This Midwest PBIS document highlights how eight classroom management strategies support students impacted by trauma.

This Florida PBIS document describes what five PBIS classroom practices look like in the classroom and how each practice supports students impacted by trauma.

This Center on PBIS practice brief describes specific practices educators can use enhance protective factors and address competing risk factors through effective academic instruction.

For information and resources which can be used to further refine your tiered support framework, including resource packs related to teaching expected behavior, acknowledging expected behavior, responding to challenging behavior, and engaging with key collaborators, explore our Tennessee Tiered Supports Center Tier I resources webpage.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center presentation focuses on strengthening Tier I behavior supports as the foundation of an effective tiered support framework, identifying students in need to additional support, and considering critical aspects of implementing Tier II behavior interventions.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center presentation focuses on exploring ways to identify students who need additional support, providing interventions based on identified needs, monitoring student progress, and assessing intervention fidelity.

For information and resources which can be used to further refine your tiered support framework and the additional support you provide to students, explore our Tennessee Tiered Supports Center Tier II and Tier III resources webpage.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes resources related to supporting students with their non-academic needs along with the RTI²-B manual.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes resources related to supporting students with their academic needs along with the RTI² manual.

These five Tennessee Tiered Supports Center briefs include information on how to include students as you enhance your positive school environment.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes a link to the Educator Wellbeing handout which describes strategies to promote staff wellness.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes a handout which explains six self-care tips to support educators whose work with students make them vulnerable to the effects of trauma.

This Center on PBIS brief describes strategies to support staff health and wellbeing to enhance the school environment.

This The Family Engagement in Special Education Project webpage explains how this project supports districts and schools with their family engagement efforts.

This National Child Traumatic Stress Network resource helps drive conversations about family-school partnerships as they relate to each of the “6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care.”

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes information and resources related to school-based mental health supports including Youth Mental Health First Aid, Project AWARE, and grief and loss.

This National Center for School Mental Health resource is an example of how to assess the data systems and practices being used at your school to support students.

This School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation (SHAPE) webpage includes information and resources related to school mental health.

This Center on PBIS webpage includes information and resources related to incorporating school mental health into the schoolwide system to support students.

This Tennessee Department of Education Social and Personal Competencies webpage includes a resource guide, toolkit, and modules on teaching practices that can be combined with trauma informed practices to better support students.

This Tennessee Department of Education Social and Personal Competencies webpage includes a resource guide, toolkit, and modules on teaching practices that can be combined with trauma informed practices to better support students.

This TRIAD webpage provides information on their self-guided professional development courses related to creating and implementing social and personal competency interventions.

This Tennessee Tiered Supports Center module includes strategies that can be aligned with your approach to incorporating trauma informed practices by creating a safe, predictable, and positive environment.

This Tennessee Department of Education webpage includes a link to the PREPARE Postvention Program Manual which was created to support districts with their crisis response plans and includes strategies to build resilience in the aftermath of trauma, grief, loss, and natural disasters.