Resources

A guide to assist organizations in enhancing their cultural responsiveness while serving survivors, families, and communities.

The difference between feeling unsafe and uncomfortable is one we need to explore more as many people in the world are awakening to what it means to be an ally.

An everyday guide for caring for self and caring for others.

These questions were developed to review specific policies about service exclusion through a trauma-informed lens.

This document developed by Trauma-Informed Oregon provides foundational information about workforce wellness. It provides background and definitions to assist partners that are beginning to address workforce wellness in their programs and organizations.

A guide to assist organizations to add broad and inclusive definitions of family in the context of workplace leave policies.

The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) provides a very general starting point with employee manual development. SHRM also sells a state-specific employee manual builder for small organizations.

Many organizations request that people who enter their spaces do not wear fragrances due to allergies or trauma associated with scents. This site provides an example of a trauma informed fragrance free policy.

Self-care resources that includes activities, assessments, research, and more.

This tool is designed to guide agencies through a self-reflective process on what it might look like to be doing accessible, culturally relevant, and trauma informed (ACDVTI) work in seven different key areas, and to identify strategies for getting there.

Model Workplace Policy: Clear guidelines help employers appropriately respond to domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking impacting the workplace, and promote a workplace culture of prevention and support.

Implementation Support Guide 1: The Social, Emotional, and Relational Climate and Organizational Trauma This is the first in a new series of ACRTI Implementation Support Guides, designed to supplement NCDVTMH’s Tools for Transformation: Becoming Accessible, Culturally Responsive, and Trauma-Informed Organizations — An Organizational Reflection Toolkit. This series is for program leaders and contains resources and […]

Initially developed as a way to bridge trauma-informed and advocacy perspectives, this more integrated approach has evolved into a framework for holding many of the key elements that are critical to doing our work – work that is grounded in domestic and sexual violence advocacy perspectives, that incorporates an understanding of trauma and its effects, […]

The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health (NCDVTMH) has designed this Tool for organizations serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their children. Its purpose is to support organizations in their efforts to become more accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed (ACRTI) in their approach and services.

The purpose of this paper is to develop a working concept of trauma and a trauma-informed approach and to develop a shared understanding of these concepts that would be acceptable and appropriate across an array of service systems and stakeholder groups.