Resources for Stronger Relationships
Explore trusted videos, books, articles, and practical tools that support connection, emotional regulation, healthy communication, self-worth, parenting, and stronger relationships. Each resource is selected to help individuals, families, caregivers, and communities turn understanding into practical action.
Videos & Learning
Explore short videos and trusted learning tools that make relationship and brain science easier to understand and use. Topics include connection before correction, felt safety, nervous system regulation, co-regulation, and understanding behavior through a more compassionate lens.
TBRI®: Trust-Based Relational Intervention®
By Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU
This video introduces TBRI®, an attachment-based, trauma-informed approach that helps caregivers understand needs beneath behavior and respond through connection, regulation, and practical support.
Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry
By Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
This two-minute video explains how responsive, back-and-forth interactions with caring adults help shape a child’s developing brain and strengthen the foundation for future learning and well-being.
Listen and Learn
The TBRI® Podcast
The TBRI® Podcast features conversations about Trust-Based Relational Intervention®, trauma-informed care, and the role of connection in supporting children, families, and communities. Episodes include practical guidance and insights from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development, TBRI® Practitioners, and other professionals working across systems of care.
Produced by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU.
Books & Recommended Reading
Explore books that make relationship, attachment, parenting, self-worth, and brain science easier to understand and apply. Each recommendation includes practical insight that supports greater awareness, connection, and healthier relationships.
The Connected Parent
Karyn Purvis, PhD, and Lisa Qualls
This practical guide helps parents and caregivers understand the needs beneath challenging behavior while building trust, felt safety, secure attachment, and connection.
The Whole-Brain Child
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD
This book explains how a child’s developing brain affects emotions and behavior and offers practical strategies for responding to everyday parenting challenges with greater understanding.
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Daniel J. Siegel, MD
This book explains how adolescent brain development shapes emotions, identity, risk-taking, and relationships. It helps teenagers and the adults supporting them understand adolescence as a period of growth, possibility, and increasing independence.
Professional Learning & Curriculum Sources
ROOTS Alaska draws from established curricula, relationship-based approaches, and professional learning that support safety, connection, self-worth, awareness, and personal growth. These links lead to the original organizations for accurate information and official resources.
Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development
Home of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® and resources for caregivers, educators, and professionals.
HALO Project
Developer of Making Sense of Your Worth and Parenting for Positive Self-Worth curricula.
Support & Community Resources
Find statewide services and community support for everyday needs, family well-being, health, housing, food, transportation, and other life challenges.
Alaska 211
From United Way of Anchorage
Alaska 211 is a free, confidential statewide service that helps people find community, health, and human-service resources based on their needs and location.
Crisis Support
If you or someone you know is experiencing emotional distress, a mental health crisis, or thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor. Support is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day, every day.
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If there is immediate danger or a life-threatening emergency, call 911.