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• What is Trauma?

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  • SAMHSA Trauma definition

  • Understanding Child Trauma - What is Childhood Trauma? | SAMHSA

  • What is Trauma? - Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resource Center

  • Understanding Child Trauma

  • PHYSICAL IMPACT OF TRAUMA INFO GRAPHIC - PROJECT ECHO

  • What is Trauma? – Bessel van der Kolk

• Understanding Trauma-Informed Approaches

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  Trauma-informed approaches involve understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma. A trauma-informed organization prioritizes and adapts:

  

  The Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Care

  1. Safety: Ensuring physical and emotional safety for everyone.

  2. Trustworthiness and Transparency: Building trust through transparency and consistency.

  3. Peer Support: Utilizing peer-based support to enhance recovery and healing.

  4. Collaboration and Mutuality: Fostering a partnership approach at all levels.

  5. Empowerment, Voice, and Choice: Prioritizing empowerment and providing choices.

  6. Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues: Recognizing and addressing cultural and historical factors.
     
     

  Explore the Ten Domains of Implementation

  A trauma-informed approach is essential for organizations aiming to support individuals who have experienced trauma. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) outlines ten key domains that provide a framework for embedding trauma-awareness and sensitivity within organizational practices. By focusing on these domains, organizations can create environments that promote healing and resilience, ensuring that trauma-informed care becomes a foundational aspect of their mission and operations. Below is the list of domains that guide the implementation of this approach. You can learn more about each domain by viewing the linked webinars.

  1. Governance and Leadership

  2. Policy

  3. Physical Environment

  4. Engagement and Involvement
     You can learn more by following these links about Lived Experience and Authentic Engagement and
     Shared Leadership and Co-design

  5. Cross Sector Collaboration

  6. Screening, Assessment, and Treatment Services

  7. Training and Workforce Development

  8. Progress Monitoring and Quality Assurance

  9. Financing

  10. Evaluation

  
  

  Governance and Leadership	Policy
  Engagement and Involvement	Cross Sector Collaboration
  Screening, Assessment, Treatment Services	Training and Workforce Development
  Progress Monitoring and Quality Assurance	Evaluation

• Trauma Informed Schools

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  Trauma Aware Schools

  The Center for Safe and Resilient Schools have supported communities across the United States and around the world before, during, and after crises. Launched by leading experts in the field of trauma-informed schools, The Center has pioneered national practices for threat assessment, crisis response, and trauma-responsive strategies.

• Trauma Informed Educational Material

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  Creating Trauma-Informed Systems | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
  The National Child Traumatic Stress Network NCTSN.org is a resource for the public, professionals, and others who care about children and are concerned about child traumatic stress. This link provides resources on how to create trauma-Informed systems for various sectors such as school, health care, child welfare, justice system and more.
  
  

  Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered Practices
  NJ Department of Education website line for resources to support schools in creating trauma-informed and healing centered practices.
  
  

  Community Advocacy Network | Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice
  National grassroots advocacy and policymaking campaign committed to healing and resilience.

  
  

  Vision | Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice
  CTIPP envisions a future where individuals, families, organizations, communities, and systems stand empowered to realize their full potential. The enclosed vision presents a variety of concrete considerations that are critical to preventing and mitigating trauma and adversity, as well as promoting resiliency, recovery, healing, and growth so that all are supported to flourish and thrive.

  
  

  Interview: The Need for Trauma-Informed Schools
  Article on the need for trauma-informed schools interview features Q&As with both professionals and users of the mental health system on topics of special interest to parents and families. They are designed to provide a closer look at new research, trends, and people.

  
  

  The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit | Introduction | Office for Victims of Crime
  The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit (VTT) was developed on the premise that exposure to the traumatic experiences of other people—known as vicarious trauma.

  The VTT includes tools and resources tailored specifically to these fields that provide the knowledge and skills necessary for organizations to address the vicarious trauma needs of their staff. To begin exploring the VTT, select one of the disciplines below and visit the comprehensive Compendium of Resources.

  
  

  Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, and Flop: Responses to Trauma | All Points North
  Brief overview of five trauma responses to trauma

• Trauma Informed Resources for Organizations

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  Center for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP)
  This CTIPP toolkit provides educational concepts and practical strategies to support team members (I.E., defined in the toolkit as employees, staff, workers, interns, fellows, leadership, human resources and administrative professionals, volunteers, committee and board members, etc.) in advocating for more trauma-informed workplaces

  [Access the Workplace Toolkit]
  
  

  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Explore SAMHSA's comprehensive guide on implementing trauma-informed approaches. This guide offers a detailed framework to help organizations integrate trauma-sensitive practices into their operations, ensuring a supportive environment for everyone.

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  SAMHSA Technical Assistance

  Center for Health Care Strategies
  This website, developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies, provides resources from trauma-informed care leaders across the country to help improve patient outcomes, increase patient and staff resilience, and reduce avoidable health care service use and costs. While geared toward health care, many of these lessons from this website can be applied elsewhere, including in social services and education.

  Learn more about Trauma-Informed Care Basics

  Trauma Informed Oregon
  Trauma Informed Oregon serves as a centralized source of information and resources for trauma informed efforts. Access learning resources, knowledge and capacity building and tool kits.

  Project Echo
  The mission at Project Echo is to educate families, communities and professionals about trauma and resilience in order to promote survivor empowerment, resolve individual and community-level trauma, and create the safe, stable, nurturing relationships that break the cycle of generational trauma.

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• Trauma Informed Information Links

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  • Missouri Model: The Missouri Model: A Developmental Framework for Trauma-Informed Approaches | dmh.mo.gov

  • Original Road Map to TIC Road Map to Trauma Informed Care • Trauma Informed Oregon

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  • Screening Tool and Gudelines TIO | Trauma Informed Care Screening Tool

  • TIC Wisconsin Model TICWisconsinModel2017.pdf

  • Trauma Informed Workplace TOOLKIT: Trauma-Informed Workplaces

• Trauma Informed Implementation Guidance, Tools, & Toolkits

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  • SAMHSA Practical Guide for Trauma Informed Approaches builds on SAMHSA’s 2014 SAMHSA Concept for Trauma Informed Care and TIP 57: Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services. Its primary goals are to provide implementation strategies across multiple domains—from governance to staff training to evaluation—and to encourage leadership to adopt a TIA at the organizational levels. This two page infographic provides information on the 10 implementation domains and 6 principles of trauma informed approaches.

  • The National Council For Behavioral Health provides this guide Trauma Informed Care Sustainability Guide as well as various resources and tools for organizations that deliver mental health and substance use recovery services in America.

  • Trauma Informed Oregon provides a Road Map to trauma informed care hat shared the common steps of implementation moves through a number of common steps that organizations move through in a developmental way. The Trauma Informed Care Screening Tool builds on the Road Map by delving into each phase and offering a series of developmental actions; these tool go hand in hand.

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is a resource for the public, professionals, and others who care about children and are concerned about child traumatic stress. They provide resources on how to create trauma-Informed systems for various sectors such as school, health care, child welfare, justice system and more.  Learn about the importance trauma screening and trauma-informed mental health assessments.

  • The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) provides a variety of tools and considerations that are critical to preventing and mitigating trauma and adversity, as well as promoting resiliency, recovery, healing, and growth so that all are supported to flourish and thrive. Their Community Advocacy Network is a national grassroots advocacy and policymaking campaign committed to healing and resilience. 

  • The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit (VTT) was developed on the premise that exposure to the traumatic experiences of other people—known as vicarious trauma. The VTT includes tools and resources tailored specifically to these fields that provide the knowledge and skills necessary for organizations to address the vicarious trauma needs of their staff. To begin exploring the VTT, select one of the disciplines below and visit the comprehensive Compendium of Resources. 

• Frameworks on Trauma Informed Approaches

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  • Review New jersey’s Department of Children and Families, Office of Resilience Trauma Informed Approach Continuum Definitions.

  • The continuum is based on The Missouri Model: A Developmental Framework for Trauma-Informed Care and The Wisconsin Continuum of Trauma-Informed Care. It also includes concepts from The Flourish Agenda, Healing Centered Engagement.

  • The New Jersey Department of Education shares resources to support schools in creating Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered Practices.  Learn how schools have the opportunity to establish supportive, positive learning environments and practices for all students that not only provide structure but are also safe, welcoming, and relationship-centered.

  • The Need for Trauma-Informed Schools  is discussed in this article through questions and answers with both professionals and users of the mental health system on topics of special interest to parents and families. They are designed to provide a closer look at new research, trends, and people.