Roadmap for Change
Episodes
Resources for Making Change: Trauma Recovery for Youth Involved in Juvenile Justice
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professionals working in juvenile justice weigh in one last time on why they do this work, what trauma informed interventions have worked well, and wh...
Embracing a Public Health Approach to Juvenile Justice: And, Not Or
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In order for juvenile justice institutions to restore trust between youth and adults and to transform the lives of justice-involved youth, they will n...
A Bus and a Budget: Equitable Education in Juvenile Justice
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to education professionals in the juvenile justice system, to help justice involved youth imagine and actualize new futures for themselves, ...
Youth Exist within Families: Supporting Caregivers & Siblings
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Youth involved in the juvenile justice system are not just individuals; they are part of complex families who are uniquely impacted by the justice sys...
Crisis Intervention: Supporting Neurodivergent Youth
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many neurodivergent youth get caught up in the juvenile justice system as a response to their moments of crisis, or simply because of differences in t...
Trauma in the Body: A Biopsychosocial Approach
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma is stored in the body and expressed through the senses, so professional interventions need to look beyond behavior to take care of the whole pe...
Credible Messengers: “Are You for Real, for Real?”
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the juvenile justice system, context is everything. Whether as professionals we show up with a deep understanding of the socio-political context of...
Words Matter: Communication & Transparency
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Making change in the juvenile justice system can be as simple, and as difficult, as making time to describe in plain language why a decision was made,...
Addressing & Acknowledging Grief of Justice-Involved Youth
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode covers the layers of grief and generational trauma that youth in the juvenile justice system might be carrying, as well as the ways profe...
Beyond Screening & Assessment: Listening with Eyes and Ears
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The long term success of youth involved in the juvenile justice system depends on professionals seeing them as whole people, with families and go...
Change that Sticks: Implementation Science & Staff Retention
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investing in the people who work in the juvenile justice system is a vital component of system-wide improvement. Learn how juvenile justice profession...
Fostering Cross-System Collaboration: It Takes All of Us
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Experts at every level of the juvenile justice system - from caseworkers and trauma psychiatrists to country judges and state-level decision-makers - ...
Trauma and the Juvenile Justice System: Where Do We Go From Here?
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For a decade, the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice has led conversations on the necessity of trauma-informed care for youth involved wi...
Introducing: Roadmap for Change
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roadmap for Change dives into the pressing need for transformation within the juvenile justice system—a system that often falls short in meeting the...
17. Trauma and Resilience: How the Helpers Help Themselves
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During safety overviews before a flight, we’re instructed to put on our own oxygen masks first before assisting others. In the same way, as professi...
16. How Policies and Systems Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With our guest experts, we discuss why we need policies that support trauma-informed training and care and what’s at stake if we don’t. We’ll he...
15. How Communities Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Communities and collective action are vitally important in maintaining and strengthening our mental health and resilience. In this episode, we hear fr...
14. How Parents Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a parent, supporting your child day-in and day-out is a lot of work -- especially if your child has experienced or is experiencing stress and traum...
13. How Lawyers and the Legal System Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re focusing on the experiences of youth before, during, and after their interactions with the legal system. We’ll hear from tr...
12. How Clinical Training Programs Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at clinical training programs for healthcare professionals in many fields: how to make the training more...
11. How Healthcare Providers Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three healthcare experts weigh in on how healthcare providers, including pediatric, family medicine, nursing, and other medical and allied health prof...
10. How Mental Health Providers Can Foster Resilience
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now that we’ve examined key concepts to understand the many ways that children experience trauma -- and the many ways that they and their families a...
9. Understanding the Impact of Global and Collective Traumas
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We can’t protect children and support their resilience if we overlook the traumas that are embedded in the fabric of their communities and society. ...
8. Working with Trauma in Cross-Cultural and Immigration Contexts
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No child exists in a vacuum. And the stress or trauma they experience doesn’t either. All of our individual behaviors, mindsets, and experiences are...
7. Supporting Children in the Aftermath of Intimate Partner Homicide
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to data from U.S. crime reports, about 1 in 5 homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner, whether that’s a current or former spous...
6. Supporting Children (and Adults) Who Have Been Sexually Abused
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore how best to support survivors of sexual abuse. Along with our guest experts, we discuss how to provide an environment in w...
5. Understanding Dissociation
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we experience trauma, our minds and bodies find ways to cope. What might look on the outside like spacing out, rapid mood or behavior changes, or...
4. Preventing Trauma
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through the intersecting lenses of advocacy, mental health care, medical care, and criminology, five guest experts help us explore trauma prevention s...
3. What is Resilience?
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Resilience is the main subject of this audio series, but what is it exactly? There are actually a lot of different definitions, and the concept of res...
2. What is Trauma?
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Julian Ford and Dr. Amanda Zelechoski speak with several child trauma experts to help understand, “what is trauma?” and how does it differ fro...
1. Introducing: Roadmap to Resilience
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join experts in the field of child stress and trauma as they delve into research-based strategies for building resilience in children of all ages. You...