Kathleen Guarino

Senior TA Consultant

Kathleen Guarino is a senior TA consultant with expertise in child mental health, trauma, and trauma-informed care. She develops program models, resources, and in-person and online training curricula and supporting materials on traumatic stress, trauma-informed care, and vicarious trauma and self-care, and provides individualized consultation to organizations across the country to support trauma-informed programming.

Guarino is a licensed mental health clinician with experience providing therapeutic services to children and families in residential and outpatient settings. She received her Master’s in counseling psychology from Boston College, and holds a certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies from the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA.

Kathleen Guarino
Expertise
Human Services
Housing and Homelessness
Trauma-Informed Care

M.A., Counseling Psychology, Boston College

Contact Kathleen Guarino

+1.781.373.7000
Related Work
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Trauma-Informed Leadership Training

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Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools: A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Students

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Safe and supportive school communities foster students’ social, emotional, and academic needs. Educators want actionable strategies and practices to ensure that all students can access equitable learning environments. Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools helps school leaders make sense of the various evidence-based resources and frameworks designed to support the whole ...
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Trauma-Sensitive Schools and Social and Emotional Learning: An Integration

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When used together, schoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL) and Trauma Sensitive Schools (TSS) support a holistic approach to meeting student needs. This brief examines how TSS and SEL can be integrated and expanded to create safe, supportive, and culturally responsive schools that prevent school-related trauma and foster thriving, robust ...
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Building a Multi-System Trauma-Informed Collaborative

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A Quick Word with: Kathleen Guarino on Mental Health During a Health Crisis

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Kathleen Guarino is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR with expertise in child mental health, trauma, and trauma-informed care. In this Q&A, she discusses the challenges—and some unexpected opportunities—around mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine.
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Long Story Short: How Can Organizations Measure Trauma-Informed Care to Promote Healing?

02 May 2016
Trauma disproportionately affects people involved with social service organizations like homeless shelters and mental health centers. In this video interview, Kathleen Guarino discusses how such organizations can measure their level of trauma-informed care and promote healing among trauma survivors.

Trauma-Informed Care: An Ecological Response

22 Jan 2015
Trauma-informed care represents an emerging shift in paradigm and practice. This article, originally published in the Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, provides a comprehensive review of trauma-informed care—its evolution, current models and practice, and evidence base.

Trauma-Informed Care and Trauma-Specific Services: A Comprehensive Approach to Trauma Intervention

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Historically, health and human service systems have served people who have experienced trauma without acknowledging, understanding, or addressing its impact and the need for tailored responses. This brief addresses the need for a comprehensive approach to trauma intervention across service settings.
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Trauma-Informed Care for Organizations Serving Homeless Female Veterans

Research shows that traumatic experiences prior to and during military service can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of women Veterans, increasing their risk for homelessness. Traumatic experiences can also affect ability to maintain health and sustain employment. With advances in awareness of the prevalence and impact ...