Resources

This page offers trauma-informed resources to support practice and learning. If there are resources which your organisation has developed or championed, and you would like them included on this page, please get in touch with bnssg.traumainformed@nhs.net.

Local resources

• Trauma-informed practice development guide – South Gloucestershire Council (PDF)
• Bristol Multiple Disadvantage Strategy – Changing Futures Bristol
• Safeguarding South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board library – This link takes you to South Gloucestershire library resources. Select the drop-down for ‘trauma-informed practice’ to access trauma-informed checklists for managers, commissioning guidance, creating psychological safety resources and more.

Co-production

• Guide to Co-production – Independent Futures
• Co-production Guidance – West Yorkshire Trauma-Informed
• Lived Experience Leadership: Rebooting the DNA of Leadership

Human resources

• Guidance for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice – ACE Hub Wales
• Wellness Action Plans – MIND

Commissioning

• Commissioning Guidance – West Midlands Trauma Informed

Research

• Improving access to general practice for and with people with severe and multiple disadvantage: a qualitative study – British Journal of General Practice
• Trauma-informed co-production: Collaborating and combining expertise to improve access to primary care with women with complex needs – PubMed
• Critical Incidents in Educational Communities – UK Trauma Council
• Study of intimate partner violence and abuse among young people – University of Bristol

Housing

• A Trauma-Informed Approach to Housing – Improvement Service
• Being trauma-informed – Homeless Link

Critical incident response

• A review of resources for displaced and crisis-affected communities – Thrive LDN
• Avon and Somerset Child Critical Incident Toolkit – Avon and Somerset Violence Reduction Partnership

National trauma-informed practice

• Trauma-Informed Organisational Toolkit – Lancashire Violence Reduction Network (PDF)
• Trauma-Informed Wales: Understanding, Preventing and Supporting the Impacts of Trauma and Adversity – ACE Hub Wales
• Childhood trauma, the brain and the social world – UK Trauma Council
• Talking to children about war and conflict – Beacon House (PDF)
• A Roadmap for Creating Trauma-Informed and Responsive Change: Guidance for Organisations, Systems and Workforces in Scotland (2023) – The National Trauma Transformation Programme 
• Taking a Trauma-Informed Lens – TURAS

Videos and podcasts

• Opening Doors Trauma Informed Practice for the Workforce (Video)
• Dr Daniel Siegel presenting a Hand Model of the Brain (Video)
• Trauma and the Nervous System – A Polyvagal Perspective (Video)
• The neuroscience of trauma – Big Think (Video)
• Trauma-Informed HR: What is it… – Humans Beyond Resources: From culture to compliance – Apple Podcasts (Podacast)
• The Window of Tolerance (Video)