• Our July 2024 CTIPP CAN call discussed how and why trauma-informed schools can help create healing spaces that engage their communities to counter the daily stresses that young people experience so that all students can reach their full potential. This is particularly important for students who learn differently, many of whom traditionally have been served in separate—and often unequal—special education classrooms.
• New commentary, Restoring Wholeness: Cultural Traumatic Reenactment and a Call for Collective Healing, presents considerations for realizing and recognizing how we have arrived at this juncture, and also calls on advocates, activists, and partners in change to support transforming the vicious cycles that will endure without trauma-informed intervention into virtuous cycles.
• New commentary, Emerging Challenges in Trauma-Informed Policies Show Opportunities for Advocacy, explores pushback against trauma-informed public policy this legislative session and how the movement can use its collective voice to continue educating and advocating policymakers.

• We want to hear from you! Please take a moment and share your thoughts on how you communicate about your trauma-informed work amidst uncertainty at all levels of society, differing political/cultural ideologies amongst your targeted audiences, and the everchanging advocacy/policymaking/philanthropic landscape.
• Urge Congress to support the RISE from Trauma Act (S. 1426 and H.R. 4541) to expand the trauma-informed workforce in schools, healthcare settings, social services, first responders, and the justice system and increase community resources to address the impact of trauma.
• Urge Congress to support the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (S. 1452 and H.R. 3073) to help communities proactively develop local strategies that build population-level resilience by planning for and responding to the mental health challenges caused by disasters and toxic stress.
• TOOLKIT: Free resources to help you urge Congress to support trauma-informed federal legislation.
• Know someone who is already advocating for trauma-informed policies and practices? Or would be an awesome addition to the movement? Encourage them to join CTIPP’s Community Advocacy Network today!

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