Center for Optimal Brain Integration

Center for Optimal Brain Integration trains, coaches and consults internationally on trauma-responsive practices and social-emotional strategies that build resilience.

Provides school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system.    

This guide provides resources that support early childhood professionals to integrate the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social and Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children and trauma-informed care. The intended…

Children and families experience and process trauma in different ways. You may never fully understand a family’s story, and that is okay. Trauma-informed care does not require anyone to be…

The American Psychological Association describes a traumatic event as an occurrence in which there is a threat of injury, death or of bodily harm to one’s self or others. Feelings…

This checklist is a list of practices that will help guide your thinking about how to support the social emotional development of young children who have experienced trauma. This list…

WCTE PBS stands in solidarity with the families impacted by the recent tragic event at Covenant School in Nashville. To assist in difficult conversations about violence in our community, we…

Healing for students dealing with tragedy begins in the classroom

During a traumatic event, people with intellectual disabilities may experience intense fears and feelings of helplessness beyond their normal coping capacity.

People with intellectual disabilities (ID) are an often overlooked minority population. They experience significant health disparities and a high risk of exposure to traumatic events that can lead to stress-related…