Trauma-Informed Resources for Families & Educators – Family Engagement

The Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) knows that children are emotionally healthier and more likely to build resilience when the adults in their world — i.e. parents/caregivers and educators — are working together to build healthy relationships and regulation skills.  We applaud the schools and families who are on a resilience-building journey together and offer […]

Taming Our Own Triggers – Thurs Night Event

Calling All Virtual Attendees!  We’ve added an interactive event to our conference schedule on Thurs, Feb 23.  Mr. Chazz, educator and social media influencer will be with us LIVE to lead an interactive session where we’ll explore how our own triggers and sources of dysregulation impact our responses to the children in our lives. The […]

Poverty Paradigm by ESSDACK

Join us during Academy Day (Sunday, Feb 19, 2023) for ESSDACK’s Poverty Paradigm, a simulation where participants will experience what it’s like to live in poverty for one month.  Each participant will role play a person experiencing survival mode, simulated in four (4) 15-minute weeks.  The results are new understandings of why families on the […]

Compliance to Compassion: ATN & AASR Support Teachers in Virtual Event

Compliance to Compassion October 14, 2022

The past two years have been so very challenging.  As we start yet another school year, we know that we’ve seen an increase in stress-related/trauma-related behaviors.  The focus on “managing” behavior in many schools is failing children and the educators who serve them.  This full-day virtual event will focus on hope, reframing our lenses and compassionate […]

Team R&R

At ATN we know that R&R (regulated & relational) are at the core of creating and maintain a trauma-informed (and trauma-responsive) environment.  It’s an on-going process.  So each of us needs help and companions on this journey.  That’s what Team R&R is.   Team R&R is a community for educators and those working in child-serving organizations […]

UPDATE: ATN Board of Directors approves Pandmic Response for In-Person Conference

Updated Pandemic Policy for ATN’s In-Person CTSS Conference This week, ATN’s Board of Directors set the policy for #TSS2022ATN.  All In-Person Conference activities will follow this policy. More information will follow regarding uploading of vaccination information. Download Policy Text HERE ATN’s Pandemic Response for In-Person Conference Attendance – Updated December 8, 2021 The Attachment and […]

Calm Kits in the Community Project

Calm Kits

Attendees at the 5th Annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference have the opportunity to give to other educators and classrooms in the Houston area AND create a calm kit for themselves at our “Calm Kits in the Community” Project on Sunday, February 20, 2022. The project is free to all attending the in-person conference. Participants will […]

5th Annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference

February 20-25, 2022 Registration is OPEN for both the In-Person (in Houston, TX) and Virtual portions of this conference. Sponsors & Exhibitors…we have so many opportunities to reach the thousands of educators involved in our conference. Join us on Sunday for one of three enlightening Pre-Conference Sessions (1/2 day), our Calm Kits in the Community […]

ARPA provides $122B Funding…Now is the time to Trauma-Inform Your School

teachers explore trauma-informed options

Through the passage of three stimulus bills in 2020 and 2021, Congress provided over $190B in relief funding to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) – $122B coming through the latest act:  American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).  This funding passes through the state educational agencies with 90% of the money going to […]

ATN Announces New PD Collaborative

ATN's PD Collaborative

The Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) is pleased to launch our Professional Development Collaborative (PD Collaborative), a highly talented group of trauma-informed educational experts available to provide PD training, consultation and support to school districts and organizations embarking on becoming trauma-informed. These professionals embody expertise in all facets of trauma-informed care and systems implementation including: […]