The resources below outline the components of trauma-informed organizations and provide guidance for incorporating those components in policies and practices. For presentations about trauma, its impact and trauma informed care for children of different ages, see the Trauma and Its Impact section of our website.
Guidelines for building adult capacities from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard
A resource to promote partnerships between trauma-informed service providers and the youth, families and caregivers receiving services.
The guide helps professionals learn about trauma-informed care and helps those currently engaged in trauma-informed work to impreve their practice.
Guidelines for improving outcomes from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard
A psychometrically-validated instrument that measures the levels of trauma-informed care in health and human service organizations.
Sample policy that can be implemented to support trauma-informed care and practices in a variety of service sectors.
Curricula and training programs available for a variety of audiences.
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services offers a structured method for determining capacities, strengths and gaps for incorporating a trauma-informed approach into all levels of organizational functioning.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network documents and resources developed by the NCTSN Trauma-Informed Service System working group.
Prepared by SAMHSA’s Trauma and Justice Strategic Initiative, this resource provides a working concept of trauma and a trauma-informed approach in order to develop a shared understanding of these concepts that would be acceptable and appropriated across an array of service systems and stakeholder groups.
JBS International, Inc. and Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health offer a comprehensive web-based, video-enhanced resource tool that tells a story of implementation of trauma informed services and offers guidance and resources.
Futures Without Violence offer a webinar that introduces a process for building an equitable and trauma informed training institute
Futures Without Violence offer a webinar that highlights 2 empirically supported measures of trauma-informed practice
A psychometrically-valid measure of professional and paraprofessional attitudes towards trauma-informed care (TIC)
Contains facilitator resources to build the capacity of helping professionals, caregivers and the systems in which they serve.
Resources, including a brief, infographic and fact sheet developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
A documentary film that depicts the dramatic emotional costs experienced by professional providers. It probes the emotionally risky aspects of professional caregiving and public service.
A theory, model and assessment measure of the negative and positive effects of helping other who experience suffering and trauma.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network provides definition, symptoms, strategies, prevention and resources.
Volk, K., Guarino, K., Grandin, M. & Clervil, R; National Center on Family Homelessness, A tool to help human service workers take care of themselves, their families and their organizations
This Futures Without Violence webinar introduces concept of secondary trauma and how to identify it, also discusses resiliency and way to increase it.
