Crisis and support hotlines can offer immediate help. They provide counseling, resources, and support that are confidential and free. Many are available 24 hours a day.

Explore this collection of resources to learn how trauma affects young children and find strategies to reduce its effects in children and adults.

Ongoing research continues to show us how adversity and toxic stress in early childhood can have a negative impact throughout a person's life. These videos are designed to help them understand what toxic stress is, what it does to a person, and easy things to do to help prevent it.