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Trauma-informed care resource library
Many organizations are doing great work in the trauma-informed care space. HCET has compiled toolkits, guides, research and videos to help you on your trauma-informed care journey. Know a resource that belongs here? Suggest it to our team.
Healthcare settings
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.
Clinician Guide for Trauma-Informed Care
National Coalition for Sexual Health
A roadmap for trauma-informed physical examinations in sexual and reproductive health settings, with an emphasis on pelvic exams. Includes action steps and scripts for before, during and after a patient's visit. Created with the Clinical Training Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Birth Trauma and Maternal Mental Health Fact Sheet
Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance
An overview of birth trauma and an introduction to how a trauma-informed approach can change the experience of traumatic birth.
Trauma-Informed Care Position Statement
Indiana Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative (IPQIC)
Published in 2023 by the IPQIC Women's Health Task Force, this statement discusses the foundations of TIC, why it matters for patients and providers, and recommendations for implementation.
Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Improve Patient Care: Foundational Organizational-Level Steps
Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Resource Center
Practical, organization-level first steps for healthcare organizations that want to become more trauma-informed, based on a Center for Health Care Strategies brief.
Fostering Resilience and Recovery: A Change Package
National Council for Behavioral Health
A toolkit refined through pilot testing at seven primary care organizations, covering core implementation teams, leadership support and organizational self-assessment.
Trauma-Informed Approaches Toolkit
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)
The impact of trauma on people living with HIV, and guidance for providers adopting a trauma-informed approach with this population.
Trauma-Informed Care Toolkit for Title X Agencies
Reproductive Health National Training Center
Guidance for family planning agencies making achievable strides toward becoming trauma-informed and delivering trauma-informed services.
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care: A Guidebook
Resilience for All Ages
The second in a series of tools for nursing homes working to become trauma-informed organizations.
Child welfare and family services
Trauma System Readiness Tool
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
A self-report measure for child welfare systems to assess how trauma-informed they are, completed by caseworkers, supervisors, managers and administrators to compare perspectives across the organization.
Creating Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Systems: A Guide for Administrators
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
A guide to transforming the wider community child welfare system, including children's mental health, into a trauma-informed, evidence-based system.
Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit: 2nd Edition
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
A webinar on how three nonprofits implemented the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit with their child welfare jurisdictions.
Family Trauma Assessment: Tips for Clinicians
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)
How to help families embrace trauma assessment, best practices and domains, choosing instruments, and presenting results to the family.
Youth programs, workplaces and frameworks
A Facilitator's Guide to Trauma-Informed Programming for Youth in Optimal Health Programs
Family & Youth Services Bureau
For facilitators of school-, community-based and one-on-one optimal health programs. When programs are trauma-informed, young people feel safe and supported and are more likely to stay engaged.
SAMHSA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Introduces the concept of trauma and a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system or service sector, with resources on resilience.
A Little Book About Trauma-Informed Workplaces
Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute
How any organization can recognize the role of trauma and build attitudes, policies and practices that support the well-being of staff and clients.
Framing Adversity, Trauma, and Resilience
FrameWorks Institute
Framing guidance for researchers, advocates and practitioners working on child abuse and neglect, family violence, ACEs, early trauma, trauma-informed care and toxic stress.
Research, assessment and video
Trauma-Informed Care in Medicine: Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions
Raja S, Hasnain M, Hoersch M, Gove-Yin S, Rajagopalan C. Fam Community Health. 2015;38(3):216-26.
A seminal article introducing the TIC pyramid, a framework that helps physicians translate trauma-informed principles into daily interactions with patients.
Life Events Checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5)
PTSD: National Center for PTSD
A self-report measure that screens for potentially traumatic events across a respondent's lifetime, covering 16 events plus one open item.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Center for Health Care Strategies (3:33 video)
An animated video following a fictional doctor who shares what she has learned about caring for patients exposed to trauma, including abuse, neglect and violence.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Nadine Burke Harris, MD (16:00 TED Talk)
How the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance use has real, measurable effects on brain development.
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope
KPJR Films
A documentary on how toxic stress affects children's brains and bodies, and the pediatricians, educators and social workers fighting back.
Paper Tigers: One High School's Unlikely Success Story
KPJR Films
Filmed in part by the students themselves, an inside look at teens pushing back against the effects of a hard childhood.
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