Check out the RWJF forum on "Child Trauma and the Teen Brain"

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation hosted a fascinating forum on "Child Trauma and the Teen Brain". The forum was only open until Aug 31 but you can still read the posts which are not only interesting but full of links to other resources. The forum included a rich mix of researchers and practitioners, and is a prelude to RWJF exploring funding in that area. There is up-to-date information on neurobiology of trauma, different interventions, and ethical challenges. One of the forum "guest expert hosts," Robert S. Pynoos M.D., M.P.H, Co-director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCTSN), has raised the question about how to integrate therapeutic and mentorship interventions, and whether there are existing models:

http://community.rwjf.org/t5/Chronic-Trauma-and-the-Teen/Connecting-Rese...

Also note that NCTSN has an amazing website (http://nctsn.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=hom_main) that will be invaluable to mentoring programs wanting to learn more about child traumatic stress and providing services. It features fact sheets on all of the promising, research-based, therapeutic interventions, a measures review database, and a lot of other info for educators, service providers, and parents. It is a wonderful resource for an important field of study.