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Tools & Resources for Trauma-informed Organizational Policies and Practices

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This site houses tools and resources for organizations to analyze their policies and practices using a trauma-informed approach, as well as trainings to support trauma-informed organizational practice. We invite you to utilize these resources to inform your organizational policies and practices.

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Guidance on Developing Trauma-Informed Policies and Procedures
NCCADV
March 2021
PDF, Toolkit
General recommendations for developing or updating an organziation’s policies and procedures manual through a trauma-informed lens.
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Cultural Responsiveness Organizational Self-Assessment
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
March 2015
Toolkit, Website
A guide to assist organizations in enhancing their cultural responsiveness while serving survivors, families, and communities.
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Safety VS Discomfort
Cheryl Ingram
May 2020
Article
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.
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Trauma Stewardship
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk
March 2009
Book
An everyday guide for caring for self and caring for others.
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Guide to Reviewing Existing Policies
Trauma Informed Oregon
January 2016
PDF
These questions were developed to review specific policies about service exclusion through a trauma-informed lens.
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A Trauma-Informed Workplace: An Introduction to Workforce Wellness
Trauma Informed Oregon
PDF
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.
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Guide to Broad and Inclusive Family Definitions in the Workplace Leave Context
Equality Federation
July 2015
PDF
A guide to assist organizations to add broad and inclusive definitions of family in the context of workplace leave policies.
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Employee Handbook Builder
The Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM)
Toolkit
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.
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Fragrance Free Policy
East Bay Meditation Center
Website
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.
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Self-Care Starter Kit
University of Buffalo School of Social Work
March 2015
Toolkit
Self-care resources that includes activities, assessments, research, and more.
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Creating Accessible, Culturally Relevant, Domestic Violence- and Trauma-Informed Agencies: A Self-Reflection Tool
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
March 2020
PDF, Toolkit
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.
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Model Workplace Policy: Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking
Workplaces Respond to Domestic & Sexual Violence – A National Resource Center
July 2020
Toolkit, Website
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.
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Tools for Transformation: Becoming Accessible, Culturally Responsive, and Trauma-Informed Organizations
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
September 2020
PDF, Toolkit
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 […]
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Creating Trauma-Informed Services and Organizations: An Integrated Approach
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
April 2018
PDF, Toolkit
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, […]
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Tools for Transformation: Becoming Accessible, Culturally Responsive, and Trauma-Informed Organizations An Organizational Reflection Toolkit
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
April 2018
PDF, Toolkit
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.
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SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
October 2014
PDF
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.
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