Appearing on the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors website, this federal interagency report on women and trauma-informed approaches was published by the Federal Partners Committee on Women and Trauma. The report outlines the projects, programs, and initiatives of more than 35 federal agencies, departments, and offices. The report highlights application of trauma-informed approaches across multiple settings and systems and encourages other governmental and nongovernmental agencies to implement cross-sector, interagency, and intersystems realization, recognition, and response to trauma.

Published in Indian Country Today Media Network by the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, this report addresses intergenerational trauma among American Indians at its core. The author addresses recent evidence on how trauma could be passed along through DNA and mentions several ways of how American Indians are managing and coping with historical trauma. She shares her personal stories of learning to deal with historical trauma, learning resilience, and the trauma of Indian boarding schools.

Published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, this research article features a study examining how mothers' Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) were associated with their children's developmental risk. The mothers' depressive symptoms and health were considered. The study concluded that mothers' ACEs are significantly related to their children's developmental risk, suggesting that addressing intergenerational trauma by focusing on childhood adversity in children's caregivers may be an important factor in promoting child development.

The National Criminal Justice Training Center hosted a three-part webinar series to provide support staff, administrators, and professionals with training on understanding trauma and successful ways to interact with traumatized clients: Part 1 presented an overview of trauma; Part 2 focused on intergenerational trauma, the people impacted by trauma, and how criminal behavior and trauma are connected; and Part 3 highlighted ways to interact with traumatized clients.

This issue brief identifies the correlation of racial trauma and trauma caused in family violence. The brief covers issues of structurally embedded inequalities, how individual actions cause racial trauma, and racial trauma’s impact on communities of color. Beyond the research, the brief features approaches taken in Virginia that individuals, communities, organizations, and service professionals could adopt to prevent and mitigate race-based traumatic stress.

This report by Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) provides a comprehensive analysis of various ways in which poverty can affect families, and discusses the intergenerational model developed by EMPath to combat these effects. The authors emphasize how poverty impacts families at three key levels: outcome level, inner-self level, and family level. EMPath’s intergenerational model incorporates assessment, goal setting, coaching, and incentives for each individual (adult/child) in the family, as well as the family as a whole to address all three levels and disrupt the cycle of poverty. The report also includes direct quotes from families participating in EMPath’s programs taken through interviews and focus groups to help develop understanding of poverty’s effects on families.

This CLASP webinar on May 20, 2020 focused on learning from lived experiences of young parents of color and their perspective on mental health. The two presentations by Dr. Nia West-Bey and Clelie Choute were comprised of qualitative reports based on conversations with young parents about the role of intergenerational trauma in shaping families’ relationships to mental health. They identified unique forms of trauma and chronic stress to which young parents are susceptible, such as infant mortality, environmental stress, deferring dreams, and stress linked to policy and program barriers. The webinar offered practice, program, and policy solutions to address their mental health needs.

This Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) webpage highlights ASPE’s Trauma-Informed Approaches project, which examined trauma-informed approaches and their impacts in community settings, and the need for further information. Links are provided to an overview of research and profiles of trauma-informed programs, a research summary of trauma-informed initiatives, and select trauma-informed program profiles.

The National Indian Child Welfare Association has produced a toolkit designed for family advocates, child welfare workers, and agencies engaging American Indian and Alaska Native children and families in Systems of Care (SOC). Developed and designed by Indian people, the toolkit is a comprehensive collection of best practices, tribal protective factors, strategies for overcoming trauma and mistrust, outreach techniques, and culturally-based practical examples of how to support and enhance family engagement at all levels of the SOC structure. The toolkit also includes information on trainings and a listing of useful online resources.

The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration published this Training and Employment Notice for stakeholders in the public workforce system to help delineate elements of credential programs and to identify credentials that support skill acquisition for quality in-demand jobs that meet business community needs. The Notice also includes four attachments covering credential resources, credit for prior learning, some models of existing industry-recognized stackable credentials, and references.