Healing Guidebook
This guidebook provides practical tips & tools for working with children and youth who have experienced trauma (and for the adults who love them, too).
Document Category: Trauma-informed Practice
Trauma Informed Yoga & Mindfulness
This infographic shows how to use mindfulness to improve our relationships, daily interactions, and reactions to trauma.
Stress and the Child Welfare Workforce: Recognizing Signs of Secondary Traumatic Stress
This webpage outlines the different types of stressors child welfare workers may be exposed to in their everyday work, as well as signs and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress.
Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision
Discusses the importance of quality supervision that organizations can provide to staff members at risk for secondary traumatic stress (STS). This fact sheet identifies the core competencies for supervisors providing formal support to workers who are exposed to secondary trauma. It is intended to be a developmental assessment for supervisors, to help identify areas of …
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Tanam Awaa Our Community’s Work: Trauma-Informed Benchbook for Tribal Justice Systems
This benchbook for tribal justice systems covers topics of historical trauma and how it can be overcome through healing models and community restoration.
Staff Performance and Retention: Using a Trauma Lens
Secondary traumatic stress (STS) can have a significant impact on child welfare professionals, their agencies, and ultimately on outcomes for children and families. Yet child welfare agencies often find it hard to identify and implement organizational strategies that effectively prevent STS and support those suffering from it. This webinar will explore what STS is, why …
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Building a Multi-system Trauma-informed Collaborative
This guide provides an overview of the types, prevalence, and effects of trauma and its implications for child-serving systems along with a framework for a coordinated trauma-informed approach within or across health care, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, early child development, first responder, and other child-serving systems. It also includes a staged process for launching …
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Implications of Mindfulness-Informed Interventions for Trauma-Focused Practice: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This document summarizes a study of mindfulness training sessions for parents which showed how integrating mindfulness interventions that target stress and coping can improve family functioning.
Effective Training for Trauma Informed Care: NCWWI 1-page Summary
This study explores how the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, in partnership with Vanderbilt University, improved its trauma-informed approach by creating the Child Protective Services Academy. The CPS Academy’s training structure, development, and design are included.
Trauma-Informed Organizational Change Manual
The purpose of the manual is to guide organizations and systems in planning for, implementing and sustaining a trauma-informed organizational change. This manual provides a step-by-step guide with tools intended for anyone interested in implementing a trauma-informed approach.