Trauma Informed Approach Content Topic Results

Domestic Violence Training for New Staff and Volunteers is a basic training curriculum on domestic violence that orients new staff and volunteers to the world of domestic violence services, providing the information needed to begin this important work.

This toolkit was developed to provide school administrators, teachers, staff, and concerned parents with basic information about working with traumatized children in the school system.

This article provides a broad overview of art therapy and includes examples of different approaches to art therapy within the domestic violence advocacy community.

This article describes the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed organizational change. The method builds on the S.E.L.F. (Safety, Emotions, Loss and Future) psychoeducational group curriculum dealing with four domains of life disruption than can occur with trauma.

This paper raises key issues, questions, and dilemmas regarding advocacy with battered women who stay in their relationships. It discusses limitations of safety strategies for leaving, and frames issues central to the expansion of advocacy beyond leaving.

This handout facilitates creative thinking about changing physical environments in shelters so that potentially oppressive rules can be eliminated.

This monograph is an introduction and overview of the issues involved in providing mental health trauma services for refugees in the United States. It is intended primarily for people who work in or care about the public mental health system.

This article discusses the gap in services for survivors of intimate partner sexual violence and how both sexual assault and domestic violence service providers can help fill that gap.

This guide book offers user-friendly information for law enforcement on how to respond to a wide range of victims. It attempts to highlight the most salient issues involved for victims of certain crimes and for certain populations of victims.

"This report shares findings garnered from a series of interviews held with a diverse group of women from throughout the Gulf region. In telling their stories, it provides an analysis of women's increased vulnerability during times of natural disasters and lays out policy recommendations that pinpoint how best to address those needs in the wake of this disaster, and in anticipation of the next."

A program director reflects on how her program’s staff worked to pare down the shelter rules, rethinking what was necessary and reexamining their own investment in particular rules.

Designed specifically for parents and caregivers, this resource describes how the brain works, how it is affected by trauma, and how it can heal.