This guide from the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) was written as a response to the following trends that have developed in the United States over the past decade: (1) Family homelessness is increasing; (2) Women and children are at risk for becoming a majority of the overall homeless population; (3) Homelessness is traumatic and it makes families sick; and (4) Violence is a critical ingredient in the recipe for homelessness. The Long Journey Home is intended to serve as a guide to agencies looking for practical ideas about how to create trauma-informed environments.

This brief, published by the National Center for Children in Poverty, finds that to make welfare reform succeed, policymakers will need to focus on a subset of the most hard to serve families affected by welfare changes. It approaches this challenge from both a policy and service perspective. It explores the issue of parental risk and child development and suggests promising strategies for promoting resilience among young children and families.
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ResilienceNet, a collaboration between Assist International, Inc., and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the most comprehensive worldwide source of current, reviewed information about human resilience. All resources listed in ResilienceNet have been reviewed by a panel of experts according to criteria for assuring their relevance and quality. ResilienceNet may be viewed in Spanish/en español.

Resiliency: A Paradigm Shift for Schools was published in Spring 1997 in Research/Practice, a publication of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement. This volume addresses the benefits of thinking about the resiliency of children, rather than their risk factors and draws our attention to some of the levers that schools and social agencies can affect. It also reviews some proven strategies that can work in schools and communities. A variety of articles are available online, including Resilience in Children at Risk and Tapping Innate Resilience in Today's Classrooms.

This brief from Project HOPE discusses what families, schools, and community programs can do to foster resilience among at-risk children and youth.

With support from the Daniels Fund, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the Homelessness Resource Center, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) has created this toolkit to provide programs with a roadmap for becoming trauma-informed. The toolkit provides homeless service providers with concrete guidelines for how to modify their practices and policies to ensure that they are responding appropriately to the needs of families experiencing homelessness who have experienced traumatic stress.