The National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s factsheet What Is Child Traumatic Stress? (https://www. nctsn.org/resources/what-child-traumatic-stress) defines child traumatic stress and provides an overview of trauma, trauma signs and symptoms, and how trauma can impact children. Find more resources that strive to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities on the National Child Traumatic Stress Network at http://www.nctsn.org/.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web section, Child Abuse and Neglect: Consequences, provides information on the prevalence, effects, and physical and mental consequences of child abuse

Stop It Now! is a website that provides parents and other adults with resources to help prevent child sexual abuse. The site offers direct help to those with questions or concerns about child abuse, prevention advocacy, prevention education, and technical assistance and training. The website is available at http://www.stopitnow.org/.

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ The Resilience Project gives pediatricians and other health-care providers the resources they need to more effectively identify, treat, and refer children and youth who have been maltreated

as well as promotes the importance of resilience in how a child deals with traumatic stress. The webpage is available at https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap- health-initiatives/resilience/Pages/Resilience-Project.aspx.

Information Gateway has produced webpages and publications about child abuse and neglect:

■      The Child Abuse and Neglect webpage (https://www. childwelfare.gov/topics/can/) provides information on identifying abuse, statistics, risk and protective factors, and more.

■      The Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect webpage (https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/responding/ reporting/) provides information about mandatory reporting and how to report suspected maltreatment.

■      Information Gateway also has several publications that cover understanding and preventing maltreatment:

○     Child Maltreatment: Past, Present, and Future: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/issue-briefs/cm-prevention/

○     Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/  preventingcan/

○     Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development  https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/issue-briefs/brain-development/