This 4-part documentary film, Understanding Transition Age Youth, was developed in collaboration with partners in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and ReMoved Films. This film will serve as a useful awareness raising and educational resource for young people, family members, and providers. Additional resources related to this film and our Center’s public awareness […]
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In Case You Missed It: Implementing ACE Screenings – How-To Guide and Lessons from the Field
A recording and materials are now available for ACEs Aware’s most recent webinar, “Implementing ACE Screenings: How-To Guide and Lessons from the Field,” which highlights learnings from clinics across California. The webinar covers: Ways the How-To Guide can help your clinic move forward in its ACE screening journey. How several practices have implemented ACE screening […]
Filling out the FAFSA for Unaccompanied Youth
This video features Rebecca Araujo, a financial aid administrator from California State University Long Beach, where she shares some tips for Financial Aid Administrators helping unaccompanied homeless youth fill out the FAFSA.
Suicide Incidence and Rate Dashboard
This dashboard supports suicide prevention planning by increasing public access to and awareness about trends in deaths by suicide in California.
Trauma Informed Practices to Best Support Student Success
This workshop will begin by reviewing important themes that arise in the complex, diverse experiences of our undocumented students, such as those that deal with identity, fear, and coming out. The session will then move on to explore trauma, its impact on learning and behavior, as well as classroom practices faculty can adopt to increase […]
Asian American/Pacific Islander Allyship and Education Training
Dr. Wayne Kao will discuss the current surge in aggression and violence towards the AAPI community, immigration, acculturative stress, allyship, and inclusive practices that can support the mental health of our AAPI students.
Mind Matters Minutes
The Dibble Institute has created Mind Matters Minutes, a new, no-cost Mind Matters virtual tool for use with students in both virtual and in-person settings. Mind Matters Minutes provide teachers and direct service providers with short video practices from the Mind Matters curriculum that can easily be shared with young people. Each practice presents a […]
Send Silence Packing: Beyond the Backpacks
Active Minds’ Send Silence Packing® exhibit has traveled the country for over a decade, reaching close to a million individuals, to end the silence that surrounds mental health and suicide and connect visitors with resources for support and action. Thanks to generous support from RSM Global, Beyond the Backpacks will now complement the traveling exhibit […]
GritX Make your Own Self-care Toolkit
GritX offers adolescents and young adults customizable interactive resources that include a self-care kit, skills studio, journaling, and breathing exercises they can develop online or via a smart device, download and refer back to regularly.
Building Skills for Cross-Cultural Communication and Resilience During COVID-19
COVID-19 has added to the way many of us see the world through different lenses. Differences in our worldview perspectives can cause disconnection and lead to a lack of resilience. At the same time, our ability to help each other is the main tool that we have in these difficult times. Joel Jackson explores stereotypes, […]