Why this exists
Every resource on this site is free, ungated, and evidence-informed. No paywalls. No email-required downloads. No "buy our curriculum" content.
The site draws from trusted institutions: Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the CDC, CASEL, Child Mind Institute, Understood.org, Stanford PERTS, and Zero to Three — because credibility matters when you're working with vulnerable kids and families.
The mission
To put the best free resources in the hands of the parents, educators, and clinicians who need them — organized so they're actually findable, and presented in a way that respects the intelligence of the people using them.
About Joshua Fisherkeller, MSW
Joshua holds a Bachelor and Master of Social Work from the University of Kentucky (BSW 1999, MSW 2005) and has spent over 25 years working with children, families, and systems — primarily at the macro level, in advocacy, training, program development, and systems of care.
His early career included direct clinical work as a therapist and therapeutic child support worker, providing in-home and community-based services to children at risk of being placed in a higher level of care. He later served as the director of a Treatment Foster Care program, where he developed a deep understanding of how systems either support or fail the families navigating them.
That systems-level perspective shapes everything about how this site is built — not just what resources are here, but how they're organized, explained, and made accessible to the practitioners and caregivers who actually use them.
Joshua has spent much of his career in education and training — contributing to curriculum development, coordinating professional development programs, and designing technology solutions that make training more effective and scalable. That background in how adults actually learn is baked into every resource on this site.
He is also a musician and songwriter. The When Feelings Get Loud album and other educational music releases grew directly out of his belief that children process difficult experiences best when art, story, and skill-building work together.
Joshua is the author of trauma-informed children's books and creator of the BRAVE app — a TF-CBT companion tool for children, caregivers, and clinicians — as well as a technology consultant through his practice After Hours Tech.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or resource suggestions? Reach out at josh@skillsforchildren.com — or use the resource suggestion form.