Resources

This set of four posters provide many classroom strategies and look great on classroom or staff room walls.

This practice guide provides information about some key considerations when responding to children who have experienced childhood trauma, and some practice implications.

Trauma Informed Positive Education: Research and Evaluation of the Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) as a whole school approach to student engagement and wellbeing (2016-2018)

The ‘Young People’s Voices, Young People’s Lives’ Project (YPVYPL) is a 12-month study that documents and examines the impact of the BSEM on four cohorts of young people in four Victorian schools.

A Report for the City of Yarra March 2018

Low noise self-regulation fidget tool. Spiky colourful wristband. Pack of 30 assorted colours.

Inside Brain Breaks 2 you will find new and familiar activities that you can use to connect and refocus your class. The descriptions are easy to follow and our colourful model, ‘Nick the Stick’, gives some handy action prompts in the pictures.

This framework is a decision-making or service-delivery framework to guide practitioners who work with parents and caregivers. There is now a consensus that evidence-based practice involves the integration of three elements: best research evidence, clinical expertise and client values. This framework provides a way of understanding how the three elements of the broader understanding of evidence-informed practice can be reconciled in practice.

An examination of four significant mental health programs for very young children, which have protocols for the inclusion of fathers who have used violence; and implications for Australian practice.

These resources are for early childhood professionals who care for children who have suffered early adverse experiences. Included is helpful information, strategies and a worksheet.

A specialist Occupational Therapist in Take Two provides trauma-informed assessment and consultation services to families, carers, clinicians and education settings.

Over 13 years Take Two has worked with 159 children impacted by a traumatic violent death - 78 of whom had a parent who had killed a close family member.

Take Two feedback surveys gather quantitative and qualitative information from consumers of the program.

This study looked at Take Two clients aged 7 months to 7.10 years (n=53) who were assessed using the carer-rated Sensory Profile (Dunn 2014), between February 2016 and March 2017. 

This literature review identifies and explores the key literature on the design and impact of outdoor adventure interventions targeting disadvantaged young people.

This report provides findings and recommendations from a formative evaluation of Berry Street’s Gippsland Wilderness Program, an outdoor experiential intervention for young people experiencing adversity. This report provides findings and recommendations from a formative evaluation of Berry Street’s Gippsland Wilderness Program, an outdoor experiential intervention for young people experiencing adversity.

A paper exploring the concept of a 'good childhood', written for Berry Street in 2017.

A paper written in 2017 by Dr Sarah Wise for the Australian Institute of Family Studies outlining the latest iterations of changes within Australian child protection systems.