Trauma Support Resource List

One Circle Foundation aims to provide services and resources to support facilitators of youth service programs. We meet the needs of our community where it’s at. 

Unfortunately, our community is dealing with too much all at once. We are met with violence, systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ablism, housing insecurity, a climate crisis, mass shootings, war, a worldwide pandemic, and a severe mental health crisis. These large-scale traumas are on top of any personal challenges that individuals may be going through. 

These topics can be hard to discuss with the youth and communities that we all work with, but it’s essential that we open the door for discussion to process these issues in a safe and supportive environment. Here is a list of resources for navigating through these topics with the youth and communities that you serve. 

ONE CIRCLE FOUNDATION RESOURCES

• Free PDF Downloads of Online Activities:
  • Throwing Stress Away (Stress Popper) Adapted to address stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, from Session 4 of "My Family, My Self"
  • Our Mental Health and Well Being, Process stressors through letter-writing activities
  • Coping Through Hard Times: Activity to address coping skills that youth use to manage hard times
  • Setting Boundaries & Staying Safe: Youth will examine intimate partner violence and personal boundaries within their own families and begin to explore how this impacts their relationships inside and outside the home.
  • Resiliency: Youth learn to recognize individual and group strengths which help to navigate adversity and foster protective factors

• SOGIE Handbook (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression): in English & in Spanish: A free resource to expand understanding and knowledge of concepts, terminology, definitions, and actionable affirming practices and approaches to create safety for all youth along the SOGIE spectra
• Facilitator Support Meetings: Facilitators can attend free on Zoom with OCF staff on the 2nd Monday of each month at 10 am pacific / 1 pm eastern. 
• Facebook Facilitator Support Group: Join this online chat forum to post questions, get and provide support, and connect with other facilitators. 
• UNITY CIRCLE ACTIVITY GUIDE: Mitigating Gender and Racial Bias: Intersectionality and Allyship: Mitigating Gender and Racial Bias: Intersectionality and Allyship is an 8-session Unity Circle activity guide that promotes dialogue and understanding around racial inequities and discriminatory views and practices toward youth and/or adults of diverse racial and gender identities and sexual orientations and builds resilience through allyship strategies and relational healing. 
• UNITY CIRCLE ACTIVITY GUIDE: PRIDE: This circle program provides a safe and supportive environment for all youth with expansive gender identities and sexual orientations and their allies. It actively counters isolation, internalized self-rejection, and other adverse health and mental health effects on LGBTQ+ youth due to marginalization. 

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

COMMUNITY PROCESSING CIRCLE 
Developed and shared by Randee Kirkemo, Ed.D. (she/her/hers) 
Attallah College of Education Studies, Counseling and School Psychology
Assistant Professor of School Counseling
Coordinator of School Counseling Program
Chapman University

Support Youth in Conversations About Tragedies, Violence, and Traumatic Events

• Tips for Parents and Teachers: Talking to Children about Violence - National Association of School Psychologists 
• Tips for Talking to Children and Youth After Traumatic Events - SAMHSA
• Helping Children Cope After a Traumatic Event: A Recovery Guide for Parents, Teachers and Community Leaders - Child Mind Institute
• How to Talk to Kids About School Shootings (English & Spanish) - Child Mind Institute
• Texas School Shooting; How to help kids get through unspeakable horror - LA Times
• Guidelines for Talking to children about terrorist attacks and school and community shootings in the news - School Crisis Center 
• How to Address Trauma Related to Curriculum Violence - Teach.com 

Support Youth in Conversations About Race and Racism

• Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids - Center for Radical Justice in Education 
• 16 ways to help children become thoughtful, informed, and BRAVE about race - Embrace Race
• Talking to your kids about racism - UNICEF
• How to talk honestly with children about racism - PBS for Parents

Suicide Prevention Resources

• https://www.notokapp.com This app was created by a High School aged youth who was thinking about ending their life and what they wanted was a button to push for help. This app allows a person to put 5 people into the app that will get a text message when they “push the button.” 
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
  Hours: Available 24 hours. Languages: English, Spanish. Learn more
  800-273-8255. Crisis Text Line: 741741
• Trevor Project:  1-866-488-7386 or chat: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/ 
  

One Circle Foundation is developing a new activity guide to address community violence and other traumatic life experiences There are many more resources available than are on this list, and more are developed and released frequently. We encourage you to share resources that have helped you by emailing blog@onecirclefoundation.org and we will update this list periodically.