Professional Resource Archive - SCAN of Northern Virginia

Let Her Learn: A Toolkit to Stop School Pushout for Girls Who Have Experienced Sexual Harassment

Too often, schools ignore or even punish victims when they report sexual harassment. This toolkit, which is applicable to students of all genders, ages, and education levels, will help you find out if your school treats students fairly when they have been sexually harassed. Use this step-by-step checklist to learn what your rights are, how to change your school’s policies, and where to find help for sexual harassment.

VA Center for Inclusive Communities: Back to School with Belonging

Creating an inclusive classroom starts before a student even steps foot in school and continues throughout the entire school year. This guide is designed to provide educators with evidence-based practices that promote inclusion and belonging. Research tells us both of these are critical for students' healthy development.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.

Learning Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Action Guide

Best practices from the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments

Introducing the Desk Guide Podcast

Drs. Elizabeth Letourneau and Keith Kaufman join PreventConnect on this podcast to discuss Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations: A Desk Guide for Organizational Leaders, a guide they and others co-authored to support and advance youth safety in youth serving organizations through establishing an overarching framework of goals for safety.

Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations: A Desk Guide for Leaders

The new report Preventing and Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth Serving Organizations: A Desk Guide for Organizational Leaders provides recommendations for prevention practices in youth serving organizations (YSOs). To support early detection and decrease the likelihood of abuse occurring in the first place, the report’s framework integrates organizational theory, ecological theory, and a public […]

Love 146: What if Marketing was Trauma-Informed?

Learn how Love146, a major child trafficking nonprofit, handles heavy topics, being sensitive to an audience's individual issues through language.

Job Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply

Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey

Online helpline for youth and young adults

WhatsOK is a free resource to support youth between the ages of 14 and 21 with questions about their sexual thoughts, behaviors, and feelings.

Gender and Children: A Place to Begin

Creating schools that nurture academic achievement, provide physical and emotional safety and welcome all students is a common goals for all educators. In order for students to feel supported and empowered to express their identities and interests at school, educators must create gender inclusive environments that both affirm all children and help them move beyond the limitations of gender stereotyping.

Developing and implementing a low-level concerns policy: A guide for organizations which work with children

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Interactive Guide: Using the Protective and Promotive Factors to Support Youth Well-Being

This interactive guide is designed to provide those working with young people—as well as youth themselves and their parents—with questions that stimulate and enrich conversations about the presence of the Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors in a young person’s life, each of which help to reduce risk, increase the likelihood of positive outcomes, and support healthy development and well-being.

Brains: Journey to Resilience

Understand how positive childhood experiences along with resilience factors can offset adverse childhood experiences in this short video from Alberta Family Wellness.

Perpetrator Information (National Children’s Advocacy Center)

Perpetrators can be anyone including family members, family friends, coaches, teachers, clergy, babysitters, and any other acquaintances.

Statistics: Child Sexual Abuse

Learning the facts is the first step to preventing child sexual abuse from our friends at Darkness to Light.

Reporting Digital Sexual Imagery Online

Exposure to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can be traumatic for you and your child. Learn how to cope and report CSAM from our friends at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Human Trafficking in America’s Schools

What schools can do to prevent, respond, and help students to recover from human trafficking.

Teen Dating Violence Policy Audit (CDC)

Complete this worksheet for each public policy identified and logged in the tracking spreadsheet.

Formed Families Forward & SCAN Resource Directory

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Ted Talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.

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