Engaging Families of Children with Disabilities

Learning about the hopes and goals of families of children with disabilities is important. It is equally crucial to communicate to families in culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate ways. This…

Childcare providers throughout California can play a vital role in identifying potential developmental delays in the children they care for at an early stage, thereby ensuring those children can receive…

Young children are always developing and exploring their world. Whether it’s learning empathy, honesty and self-confidence, or reading, music and problem solving, there are opportunities and challenges at every age.…

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS), in collaboration with WestEd, is happy to announce a series of free webinars coming soon through the CDSS funded Beginning Together project. Beginning…

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…