Coping skills: Strategies used to manage upsetting feelings, thoughts, and physiological arousal. Estrategias utilizadas para manejar sentimientos perturbadores, pensamientos y excitación fisiológica.

Culturally relevant: Awareness and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities among people of different backgrounds.

Dissemination: Distribution of valuable information to target audiences, such as therapists, teachers, and caregivers.

Domestic violence: Verbal or physical violence between two adults living together. Children are impacted by witnessing domestic violence. Violencia verbal o fisica entre dos adultos que viven juntos. Los ninos se ven afectados por ser testigos de violencia domestica.

Erin’s Law: A federal law mandating child sexual abuse prevention taught to all children attending public school in the United States.

Evidence based: Evaluated and shown to work using rigorous scientific methods (e.g., randomized controlled trials).

Gender identity: An individual’s perception of being male, female, neither, both, or somewhere in between.

Implementation: Using evidence-based research findings in routine practice.

Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF): A process in which education and mental health systems work together to identify and serve children in need.

Interpersonal violence (IPV): Intentional use of power or control over another person through physical, sexual, or emotional actions or threats.