The Essentials of…Trauma-informed Care [PDF]
It is very common for people accessing substance use treatment and mental health services to report overwhelming experiences of trauma and violence. Often people who have experienced trauma view their use of substances as beneficial in that it helps them to cope with trauma-related stress. Unfortunately, this seemingly adaptive coping mechanism can make people more vulnerable to substance use problems.
Resources
Trauma-informed Online Tool
Virtual toolkit. Provides overview of key issues, themes in practice and policy, promising practices, and tensions. Provides links to recommended readings, curricula and training resources, and web resources for working with women and for understanding connections between substance use, mental health and trauma. Also includes strategies for developing trauma-informed practices and services.
Published: March 2011
Source: BC Centre for Excellence on Women's Health
Websites: www.bccewh.bc.ca
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
Helping Children and Youth Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events [PDF]
Provides information on how systems of care and trauma-informed services can improve the lives of children and youth who have experienced traumatic events. Includes findings from a national evaluation of such programs and describes common treatment approaches.
Published: 2011
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (United States)Websites: www.samhsa.gov
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
What do we mean by trauma-informed care?
Webcast video and PowerPoint slides about women-centred trauma-informed support in substance use and mental health services. Topics include defining trauma, key concepts, principles and practices related to trauma- and violence-informed approaches.
Published: 2011
Source: BC Centre for Excellence on Women’s Health
Websites: www.bccewh.bc.ca
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
Trauma-informed Organizational Toolkit for Homeless Services
Provides practical ways for becoming trauma-informed. Includes organizational self-assessment and a manual for creating organizational change.
Published: 2009
Source: National Centre on Family Homelessness (United States)Websites: www.familyhomelessness.org
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
Handbook on sensitive practice for health care practitioners: Lessons from adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse [PDF]
Discusses childhood sexual abuse in the context of health care encounters. Identifies principles of trauma-informed practice and provides guidelines for health care services for trauma survivors. Based on extensive interviews with survivors and practitioners. Published: 2009
Source: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (Public Health Agency of Canada)Websites: www.phac-aspc.gc.ca
Language: English and French
Cost: n/c
Trauma-informed Approaches in Addictions Treatment [PDF]
A discussion guide to gendering the National Framework for Action to Reduce the Harms Associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs and Substances in Canada. Identifies Canadian examples of promising practices in action. Lists discussion questions on providing integrated approaches.
Published: 2009
Source: BC Centre for Excellence on Women’s Health
Websites: www.bccewh.bc.ca
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
The Trauma Toolkit: A resource for service organizations and providers to deliver services that are trauma-informed [PDF]
Provides recommended practices to assist service providers/organizations to increase their capacity to deliver trauma-informed services. Describes the benefits of trauma-informed services.
Published: 2008
Source: Klinic Community Health Centre (Manitoba)
Websites: www.trauma-informed.ca
Language: English only
Cost: Free to download; 1–9 copies are $15 each, 10+ copies are $10 each plus postage and handling.
Understanding Links Between Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse : A Toolkit for Providers [PDF]
Designed for both service providers and consumers. Discusses trauma and substance abuse, traumatic stress in adolescents, understanding substance abuse in adolescents, and engaging adolescents in treatment.
Published: 2007
Source: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (United States)Websites: www.nctsnet.org
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
Responding To Childhood Trauma: The Promise and Practice Of Trauma Informed Care [PDF]
Describes differential responses to trauma depending on the age of the child; risk and protective factors related to child maltreatment, magnitude of the problem; and subtle psychological effects of trauma on children. Also discusses key components of trauma-informed care, strengths-based approaches and resiliency, and programmatic approaches to trauma-informed care.
Published: 2006
Source: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (United States)Websites: www.nasmhpd.org
Language: English only
Cost: n/c
Beyond trauma: A healing journey for women
Manualized curriculum for women’s services. Developed by Stephanie Covington for use in substance treatment centres, criminal justice system, mental health settings and domestic violence shelters. Additional curricula have been developed for girls and men.
Published: 2006
Source: Stephanie Covington, PhD, LCSW
Websites: www.stephaniecovington.com
Language: English only
Cost: The Facilitator’s Guide is $89.95 US and the Workbooks are $9.95 US.
Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
Website offers the book Seeking Safety as well as a wide variety of articles about treatment and implementation (primarily photocopies of journal articles). DVDs are also available for a fee.
Published: 2002
Source: Seeking Safety (Lisa Najavits and Associates)
Websites: www.seekingsafety.org
Language: English and French
Cost: Book is $40.43 from amazon.com; some materials are available at no cost.
Bridging responses: A front-line worker’s guide to supporting women who have post-traumatic stress [PDF]
Written for frontline workers working with women in a variety of service settings (e.g., police, shelters, health care). Provides information about responses women can have to trauma and how to recognize them. Includes guidelines on asking about trauma issues.
Published: 2001
Source: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Websites: www.camh.net
Language: English only
Cost: n/c