Becoming trauma-informed
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Becoming trauma-informed
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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.
- Trauma Impact Assessment Tool – Designed by the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Trauma-Informed Systems Programme to support you to consider where trauma may exist in relation to your work programme, project or policy and to identify what steps you can take to reduce negative impacts.
- Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Trauma-Informed Systems Programme Learning Report
Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice E-Learning Module
The Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice training has been co-designed and co-produced by people with lived experience and staff from within organisations across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire as a resource to increase understanding and knowledge of trauma and adversity, how trauma may affect us, what it means to be trauma-informed and how this applies in practice.
As you do this training, some of this may resonate with you and you may find it difficult to read, watch or hear some of the content. Please do be mindful of your own responses and needs and prioritise your own self-care and wellbeing, accessing support where needed.
Use the following username and password to log in to the training.
Username: bnssgtis
Password: bnssgtis
If your organisation is interested in having this module built into your learning management system please contact bnssg.traumainformed@nhs.net
Racial trauma
The NHS Race and Health Observatory commissioned the Centre for Mental Health and Coffee Afrik CIC to carry out a qualitative research project on trauma-informed care in racialised communities.
The project’s key findings are that:
- Trauma is common in racialised communities and rooted in racism
- Public services often make trauma worse instead of helping
- Trauma‑informed care is inconsistently applied and not usually anti‑racist
- Community-led care is vital but underfunded.
Read the Trauma-informed care and racialised communities report on the Centre for Mental Health website. The site also includes guidance for practitioners, policymakers and public services.
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
Commissioning
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
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)