Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Resource Library
Many organizations are doing great work in the trauma-informed care space. HCET has compiled a list of external resources to help you on your trauma-informed care journey. Please reach out to Kris if you have additional resources you would like to suggest for the library.
Cultivating Guide for Trauma-Informed Care
Clinical Training Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health (CTC-SRH)
A guide for clinical services providers performing physical examinations in sexual and reproductive health settings.
Birth Trauma and Maternal Mental Health Fact Sheet
Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance
An overview of birth trauma and introduction to ways a trauma-informed approach could replace the experience of traumatic birth.
Trauma System Readiness Tool
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady’s Children’s Hospital, San Diego
The TSRT is a self-report measure that was designed for child welfare systems to use as they assess the trauma-informed nature of their own system. The TSRT was designed to be administered to multiple informants across all levels of the organization, including caseworkers, supervisors, managers, and administrators. It can be completed across regions within a state or county. Results from the TSRT provide cross-informant data to each system detailing how front-line case workers’ responses from the survey are similar to or different from those of supervisors and administrators.
Creating Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Systems: A Guide for Administrators
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady’s Children’s Hospital, San Diego
This guide will help transform the wider community child welfare system, which includes all the major systems that impact children and families involved with public child welfare, including children’s mental health, into a multi-dimensional, trauma-informed, and evidence-based system better able to meet the unique needs of abused and trauma-exposed children.
Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit: 2nd Edition
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady’s Children’s Hospital, San Diego
This webinar will share how the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT) has been implemented in three different states by nonprofit organizations in partnership with their child welfare jurisdictions.
Family Trauma Assessment: Tips for Clinicians
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
This fact sheet provides information on how to get families to embrace the need for trauma assessment, the best practices in and appropriate domains for family trauma assessment, how to choose instruments and decide what to measure, and how to present results to the family.
Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Improve Patient Care: Foundational Organizational-Level Steps
Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resource Center
This implementation tool is intended to help practitioners understand potential organizational-level steps to begin incorporating trauma-informed care into a healthcare organization. The tool is based on a Center for Health Care Strategies brief that offers practical recommendations for providers and other healthcare organizations interested in taking foundational steps to become more trauma-informed.
Fostering Resilience and Recovery: A Change Package
National Council for Behavioral Health
This change package is a comprehensive toolkit developed by trauma-informed care experts and refined through pilot testing at seven primary care organizations across the United States. It outlines foundational change management strategies to create the conditions for successful change within primary care organizations, including developing a core implementation team; ensuring continued leadership support; and conducting an organizational self-assessment.
Trauma-Informed Approaches Toolkit
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)
This toolkit provides an overview of the impact of trauma on people living with HIV and guidance for healthcare providers looking to adopt a trauma-informed approach to care when working with this population.
A Facilitator’s Guide to Trauma-Informed Programming for Youth in Optimal Health Programs
Family & Youth Services Bureau
Programs that teach young people about personal responsibility, self-regulation, goal setting, forming healthy relationships, and healthy decision-making can help them achieve optimal health. When such programs are delivered in a trauma-informed way, participants feel safe and supported and are more likely to remain engaged in program activities. This guide to trauma-informed programming is for facilitators who deliver school- and community-based or one-on-one optimal health programs to young people.
SAMHSA’s Trauma-Informed Approach: Key Assumptions and Principles
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This training curriculum provides an introduction to trauma and trauma-informed approaches in behavioral health and human services. No prior knowledge about trauma is necessary.
Trauma Informed Care in Medicine: Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions
Seminal article on TIC in healthcare. Abstract: “Traumatic events (including sexual abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, and combat trauma) are associated with long-term physical and psychological effects. These events may influence patients’ healthcare experiences and engagement in preventative care. Although the term trauma-informed care (TIC) is widely used, it is not well understood how to apply this concept in daily healthcare practice. On the basis of a synthesis of a review of the literature, the TIC pyramid is a conceptual and operational framework that can help physicians translate TIC principles into interactions with patients. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed in this article.
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope
Researchers have recently discovered a dangerous biological syndrome caused by abuse and neglect during childhood.
As the new documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, prison time, and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience, however, also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back. Trailblazers in pediatrics, education, and social welfare are using cutting-edge science and field-tested therapies to protect children from the insidious effects of toxic stress—and the dark legacy of a childhood that no child would choose.
Paper Tigers: One High School’s Unlikely Success Story
In search of clear and honest answers, Paper Tigers hinges on a remarkable collaboration between subject and filmmaker. Armed with their own cameras and their own voices, the teens of Paper Tigers offer raw but valuable insight into the hearts and minds of teens pushing back against the specter of a hard childhood.
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care: A Guidebook
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care: A Guidebook is the second in a series of tools and resources from Resilience for All Ages designed to assist nursing homes seeking to become trauma-informed organizations.
Trauma-Informed Care Toolkit for Title X Agencies
Reproductive Health National Training Center
This toolkit was developed by the Reproductive Health National Training Center to guide family planning agencies in making achievable strides toward becoming trauma-informed and delivering trauma-informed services.
Clinician Guide for Trauma-Informed Care
National Coalition for Sexual Health
Clinician Guide for Trauma-Informed Care is a roadmap for clinicians seeking to provide trauma-informed physical examinations in sexual and reproductive health settings, with an emphasis on pelvic exams. This guide can help clinicians deliver comprehensive care, improve patient engagement, build patient rapport, and avoid causing additional harm to patients who have already experienced trauma. Action steps and scripts are suggested for three phases: before, during, and after a patient’s visit. NCSH created this tool in collaboration with the Clinical Training Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Framing Adversity, Trauma, and Resilience
This brief offers framing guidance for researchers, advocates, and practitioners advancing systems change on child abuse and neglect, family violence, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), early trauma and trauma-informed care, and toxic stress.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Center for Health Care Strategies
A 3:33 animated video that follows a fictitious doctor sharing what she has learned about caring for patients with exposure to trauma, including abuse, neglect, and violence.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime: Nadine Burke Harris
In this 16:00 TED Talk, Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
A Little Book About Trauma-Informed Workplaces
Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute
Every organization, from any sector, can benefit from becoming trauma-informed. Trauma-informed workplaces understand and recognize the presence of trauma, acknowledge the role trauma can play in a person’s life, and promote work environments that support the individual and collective well-being of all staff and clients. They create a sense of belonging, connection, and safety through their attitudes, policies, and practices. As a result of these practices, organizations that are trauma-informed are more resilient and better equipped to achieve their mission.