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This playlist from the Capacity Building Center for Tribes includes five recorded webinars focused on tribal trauma and resilience. Each webinar focuses on different factors that affect tribal mental and behavioral health, including protective community factors, historic trauma, trauma-informed child welfare, and secondary traumatic stress.
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This tip sheet defines historical trauma and describes impacts of historical trauma in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultures and communities. The tip sheet also provides tips to help responders prepare to support AI/AN communities that have been affected by disasters.
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This tip sheet notes the diversity of Native American cultures in the United States, presents some general commonalities across many Native American cultures and societies, explains historical trauma and how tribes may think about and respond to disasters, and suggests ways to support tribal communities that have experienced disasters. References and related resources are listed.
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This web page from the American Psychological Association provides a summary about trauma and its effects, and features related resources that explore the impact of traumatic events on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. It includes links to articles, podcasts, and other resources that explore traumatic stress in response to disaster events and evidence-based practices for healthcare service professionals.
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This web page provides an overview of disasters, how they affect children, and how parents can offer support. It presents links to fact sheets, answers to parents' frequently asked questions, and policies and articles for clinicians. The web page also features information and links for finding help for a child or adolescent struggling with his or her disaster reactions.
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This article from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health proposes a trauma-informed approach for healthcare practitioners unfamiliar with the effects disasters and trauma can have on individuals and communities. The resource prioritizes the needs of individuals affected by disasters and coping with traumatic stress to advise healthcare practices and avoid retraumatization.
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This web page provides a thorough analysis of the trauma-informed care framework and its success in promoting the well-being of individuals with previous trauma. It includes a webinar exploring the do's and don'ts of using the framework and identifies six guiding principles to properly apply a trauma-informed approach and address changing needs related to identity and culture.
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This resource collection from the Center for Health Care Strategies provides a detailed overview of trauma-informed care, its purpose, and its implementation in healthcare organizations. The collection includes web pages explaining the objectives of trauma-informed frameworks, possible benefits, and examples of different organizations highlighting their efforts and key program features to support trauma-informed principles.
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This web page includes information and resources related to using a trauma-informed approach when serving individuals experiencing homelessness. It explores the rates of trauma in the community of people who are homeless and provides guidance for supporting this community during disaster planning and response.
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This web page from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing explores the Trauma-informed, Resilience-oriented Care (TIROC) framework that can be adopted by organizations and community systems to minimize retraumatization and support resilience. It identifies the National Council's seven domains of TIROC and provides opportunities for organizations to learn more about trauma-informed services and adaptations that can be made to their services.
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This brochure describes trauma that children and adolescents may experience, including trauma associated with natural and human-caused disasters. It indicates how children and adolescents may respond to trauma and how rescue workers can help children and adults cope with stressors and trauma, and it identifies sources of additional information and support.
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This toolkit is designed to support delivery of training for mental health and other professionals on supporting children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in coping with and recovering from trauma. The curriculum defines IDD, explains how IDD and trauma can delay development, and offers ways to work with children and their families. Users must create an NCTSN Learning Center account and log in to access this resource.
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This fact sheet from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies provides information about trauma and its possible effects on adults. It includes common behavioral health responses to traumatic events, explains posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), and identifies factors that can support recovery for affected individuals.
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This guide from New Philanthropy Capital provides a thorough breakdown of trauma-informed approaches and related key terms. Tailored for organizations and charities providing services to children and families with past traumatic experiences, this guide explores the impact of trauma-informed services and identifies next steps for community or organizational leadership interested in this framework.
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This document addresses the needs of school-aged youth in Indigenous communities by providing tools for educators, administrators, and mental health and substance use disorder treatment professionals to support resilience building and well-being. It includes a historical review, case scenarios, and best practices based on cultural awareness practices.
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This infographic identifies the six guiding principles to a trauma-informed approach that must be continuously assessed and improved on in organizations pursuing trauma-informed care. These principles, such as safety and peer support, each guide the framework of an organization and the impact of the services it provides.
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Created for individuals interested in implementing a trauma-informed approach in their organization, this tool highlights key takeaways about trauma-informed care than can be shared with organizational leadership to make the case for framework implementation. It includes six considerations for discussing the framework with leadership that help clarify information about individual and community needs, short-term benefits, next steps, and positive long-term outcomes.
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Developed for organizations implementing a trauma-informed care approach, this fact sheet provides detailed guidance for engaging patients, staff, and community members with a new framework. The resource considers challenges organizations may encounter and provides tips for encouraging community involvement in trauma-informed care, including strategies such as soliciting feedback through various outlets, practicing transparency, and providing appropriate compensation.
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This webinar from the Center for Health Care Strategies explores the benefits of trauma-informed treatment and services for individuals with substance use disorder and previous or current traumatic experience. Healthcare professionals share their experiences with patients and staff in trauma-informed healthcare professional organizations, highlighting key practices that influence better outcomes for patients and staff alike.
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Created for emergency healthcare professionals, this blog post from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement highlights how trauma-informed care can benefit both providers and recipients of emergency health services. It considers the needs and challenges of behavioral health emergencies to provide examples of how investment in trauma-informed training and care can support positive patient outcomes and staff safety.
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This recorded webinar from SAMHSA explores historical trauma and cultural protective factors to highlight the strength of tribal communities and possible strategies for promoting community resilience. It focuses on trauma-informed programs and projects that provide tribal communities with tools for building resiliency and revitalizing cultural protective factors.
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Developed by the SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center, this fact sheet gives individuals and programs who may work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities a better understanding of mental health in these communities. It discusses the history of trauma in tribal communities, as well as perceptions of mental health and illness among AI/AN communities that differ in some ways from European American perceptions.
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Created for healthcare professionals providing services to individuals or communities affected by disaster events, this recorded webinar explores special considerations that must be addressed for community members who have previous trauma experience or impacts and struggle with homelessness or poverty. It highlights the need for Mental Health First Aid and explores the differences between disaster trauma and other traumatic experiences.
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This recorded webinar explains how trauma-informed care can be implemented across large healthcare systems to effectively address patient needs, support improved health outcomes, and avoid retraumatization. Experts from the healthcare field contribute to this resource to share their experiences with trauma-informed systems and implementation processes that influence both the healthcare system and organizational culture.
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This fact sheet from the Center for Health Care Strategies describes key organizational and clinical practices necessary for ensuring trauma-informed care and services. It explores the effect of trauma on health and identifies key principles at work in different organizations in the field, explaining how they address trauma-informed needs through their efforts.
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