National Resources

The Post Institute is a resource with information on Reactive Attachment Disorder, the Stress Model, and Family-Centered Regulatory Therapy.

The Mission Statement of the Beyond Consequences Institute is to provide every child the opportunity to be parented out of love, ending the myth that a child can only respond and bond to a parent through fear-based parenting. This website provides invaluable information and support to parents who are implementing the Beyond Consequences parenting.

The ChildTrauma Academy is a unique collaborative of individuals and organizations working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education.

We recognize the crucial importance of childhood experience in shaping the health of the individual, and, ultimately, society. By creating biologically-informed, child and family respectful practice, programs and policy The ChildTrauma Academy seeks to help maltreated and traumatized children.

A major activity of the CTA is to translate emerging findings about the human brain and child development into practical implications for the ways we nurture, protect, enrich, educate and heal children. The "translational neuroscience" work of the CTA has resulted in a range of innovative programs in therapeutic, child protection and educational systems.

**This website also provides some free educational materials about childhood trauma and brain development.

Local websites

Local interagency body with decision making authority at a policy level; authority to commit resources and make decisions about services to children in Yellowstone County. This site also has a local resource directory with contact information for services in Yellowstone County and the state of Montana.