Trauma Smart works.
Reduce the negative impact of trauma and violence on our children today for a better tomorrow.
Trauma Smart was developed by the experts at Crittenton Children’s Center. Trauma Smart was founded on evidence-based interventions recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to be effective in helping children and the adults who care for them address the negative impact of violence and trauma.
Children are our future. While we can’t protect them from going through a traumatic experience, we can help them cope and recover.
Trauma Smart helps young children, and the adults who care for them, calmly navigate difficult life challenges by combining practical, hands-on tools and effective coping strategies. We bring these into the places where kids learn and play every day.
By incorporating Trauma Smart into your life, you will be laying the groundwork for better emotional resilience and health for our children and, inevitably, our society.
About Trauma
In 2010, a Briggs & Gowan’s study found that, by the age of four, one in four children experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. When children experience trauma it can change the trajectory of their lives.
Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ongoing Adverse Childhood Experience study, involving over 17,000 patients, has clearly shown that trauma experienced in childhood is linked to negative health, social, and economic outcomes. Adults with six or more adverse childhood experiences have a life expectancy that is twenty years shorter than average.
Learn More →Become a Partner
Join us. We'll provide you with the tools needed to help build healthy attachment and empower children to self-regulate and integrate the impact of trauma so they can build competencies for a lifetime of success. As a partner, you will have a community to turn to for additional support.
Learn More →Trauma Smart in the News
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Trauma Smart program supports youth who've experienced adversity.
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Trauma Smart Program Changes Approach to Kids Who Act Out
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NYC Learning Program Changes Classroom Behavior
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3 Hickman Mills Students Were Shot and Killed This Year. How Will the Community Respond?
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