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Child and Family Well-Being

Informational and educational resources regarding child and family healthy functioning and the four basic domains of well-being: cognitive functioning, physical health and development, behavioral/emotional functioning, and social functioning.

Child and Family Well-Being Resources:

  • Trauma Exposure in American Indian - Alaska Native Children
    A unique individual experience associated with a traumatic event or enduring conditions, which can involve and actual death or other loss, serious injury, or threat to a child's well-being, often related to the cultural trauma, historical trauma, and intergenerational trauma that has accumulated in AI/AN communities through centuries of exposure to racism, warfare, violence, and catastrophic disease.
     
  • Trauma Informed Report - America Indian/Alaska Native Communities' Trauma Informed Care Work Group
    This report summarizes the American Indian/Alaska Native Communities' Trauma-Informed Care Work Group's discussions held during the winter of 2008/2009. The report is designed to outline the history of this effort and review the input of the Work Group members regarding American Indian/Alaska Native Trauma-Informed Care principles.
     

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