NEW Understanding Childhood Trauma and Your Family Pamphlet for Parents & Caregivers
We are thrilled to announce the


has been updated and is now available in eight
languages, through
the Family Resource Centers
of Massachusetts.
As one mother told us, “This pamphlet could be life changing.”

Please share this on your social media, include it in your organization’s e-newsletters, Facebook pages, website, Twitter and Instagram, if you find it relevant for your family, community or organization.

If you have resources or ideas for further distribution, funding or printing of this brochure, please share. Thank you!
Acknowledgments
This project and the first edition of the pamphlet, was designed together with Tricia Pauline Velena, MPH.

We would like to thank the parents and caregivers in our focus groups. They inspired us with their efforts on behalf of their children and foster children.

The help, advice and hands-on labor of many professionals and volunteers were essential to this project including: Astraea Augsberger, Ph.D., Michelle Botus, MS, Jenny Duval, Anne Fidler, ScD, Jennie Fishman, MPH, the Honorable Gail Garinger (Ret.), Kim Kamins, Genevieve Kane-Howse, LMHC, Edward Jacoubs, Patricia Keenan, Barbara Dioguardi Lopez, MSW, Lois McCloskey, DrPh, Michael Melendez, Ph.D., Jose Monteiro, M.Ed., Beth Pond, Rebecca Pries, M.Ed., CAGS, Gema Schaff, MS, ABD, Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Audrey Smolkin, MPP, Rose Tedesco, Melissa Threadgill, MPP, Madi Wachman,MSW, MPH, Ray Wallace, Esq., Renee Williams.

We are grateful to the following institutions for their support: the Boston
University School of Public Health Activist Lab, the Boston University School
of Social Work, the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
(BUSPH), the Child Trauma Training Center @ UMass Medical School, the
Family Resource Centers, the Federation for Children with Special Needs,
the HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) Project at Tufts
Medical Center, the MA Office of the Child Advocate, the MA Department of
Mental Health, the Parent/Professional Advocacy League, and UMass Medical School/Commonwealth Medicine.

Thank you for making this project possible.
Sincerely,

Katherine Hughes, JD, MSW, LICSW
Parent Child Trauma Resources Lead
Pronouns (she/her/hers)
P.O. Box 94
Sharon, MA 02067
Iphone 617-835-8843
Gmail hughesk.pctr@gmail.com
Join the national Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice, www.ctipp.org. It will take each one of us -- people with lived experience, people from diverse backgrounds, professionals -- and a nationwide effort, to create our ultimate goal of a trauma-informed, and
responsive, society.
Parent Child Trauma Resources