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Audience: Youth

Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral health Services: Quick Guide for Clinicians

This Quick Guide accompanies the service improvement guidelines set forth in Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services, Number 57 in the Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) series. It summarizes the how-to information in TIP 57 pertinent to behavioral health counselors and clinicians, focusing on principles, tools, and approaches in providing trauma-informed care.

Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence

A toolkit for law enforcement.This Toolkit is designed to meet the unique needs of today’s officers, who may or may not have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with trauma-informed mental health and child welfare professionals.

Boosting Resilience and organizational capacity to address trauma related violence

Engage in a candid discussion around the evolution in our understanding of trauma and its impact on communities. List strategies relevant for efforts focused preventing violence and trauma violence. Identify tools and resources to support ongoing innovative partnerships and comprehensive effort to prevent trauma. Articulate the need for understanding the impact of community-level trauma and the implications for prevention practice. Differentiate between individual and community-oriented approaches to trauma and articulate the value of both.

Age-Related Reactions to a Traumatic Event

by understanding how children experience traumatic events and how these children express their lingering distress over the experience, parents, physicians, communities, and schools can respond to their children and help them through this challenging time. The goal is to restore balance to these children’s lives of their families. su