Sacred Circle Toolkit
File Type: File
Resource Tags: Resources for Educators and Caring Adults
Date added: February 9, 2026
Description:
Healthy development of our children integrates emotional, behavioral, physical, and spiritual-related growth. Merged in this is sexual development, which starts in young children, often evoked by curiosity. However, some children show sexual behavior that is problematic and even harmful. Problematic Sexual Behavior (PSB) is a set of behaviors that are developmentally inappropriate, potentially harmful to self or others, and could be illegal depending on a variety of factors. Understanding problematic sexual behavior is a first step in the prevention of problematic sexual behavior of youth, promotion of healthy sexual development, and healing of those impacted.
The Sacred Circle refers to the balance of mind, body, spirit and emotional/relational aspects of life. The history of colonization, boarding schools, trauma, violence, and abuse has created an imbalance in the Sacred Circle.
The National Center on the Sexual Behavior of Youth, in partnership with the Indian Country Child Trauma Center and the Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention, developed the initial Restoring the Sacred Circle Toolkit in 2020 to provide guidance for tribal communities and programs.
Content and information have been expanded to include stories about children who have received and benefited from treatment interventions and outcomes.