Help, Tools, & Resources for Professionals
Giving You the Tools You Need
We seek to help professionals identify children, youth, and young adults that may have experienced trauma or a crime. We want to help professionals work better together to provide support, safety, healing and justice for youth and their families.
Guide to Using the Directory
This guide was developed to assist professionals in finding a good service provider for young people who have been victimized or witnessed something traumatic.
Resource Directory
The LSCOY resource directory was created as a connecting link for families, caregivers, and service providers working with victimized children, youth, and young people across Ohio.
Training & Events
Links to entities in Ohio and nationally who provide training to professionals on issues related to child and youth trauma and victimization.
Trauma Screening
The trauma screening tool is designed to determine whether a child has been exposed to trauma, and whether the child presents with trauma symptoms.
Publications & Recorded Trainings
Our library of publications and training documentation focuses on the identification, assessment, and treatment of victimized children and youth.
Professionals may also benefit from reviewing or sharing the resources compiled in the Victim Guides to Navigating Safety, Justice and Healing.
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Criminal Justice System
Law enforcement, prosecution, victim/witness programs, courts that deal with felonies, misdemeanors and juvenile delinquency, and victim’s rights attorneys.
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Civil and Domestic Relations Court Systems
Courts that deal with divorce, parenting time, child abuse, neglect and dependency, civil protection orders and other civil actions, CASAs, GALs and private attorneys.
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Victim Advocacy
Information about Child Advocacy Centers (CAC), domestic violence and rape crisis/sexual assault, victims’ rights information, best practices for supporting LGBTQIA+ survivors, Children Who Witness Violence projects, information about peer support and peer support groups and other programs using empowerment / advocacy models.
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Child Welfare
Information about child protective services, foster care, adoption, transition aged youth aging/aged out of foster care, and kinship care benefits and services.
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Health Care
Primary and specialty physical health care, behavioral health care, occupational, art, music and other holistic therapies, psychiatry, counseling, and group therapy.
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Emergency Services
Forensic nurses, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE), emergency medical care, suicide and other crisis intervention services, emergency shelter, and Trauma Centers.
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Community Based Support
Food banks, permanent and supported housing, rental assistance, eviction prevention, central intake services, Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) and other utility support and education programs.
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General Guides
General guides, documents, and publications to help you on your journey.
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