This guide provides guidance for employers and workforce development organizations to understand trauma and toxic stress and the impacts on employees. It also provides a selection of strategies and practices to promote a trauma-informed approach in employee management.
Published By: National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
Published Date: 2021
Resource Type: Toolkits
Sectors: Workforce

This case study is one component of Preservation of Affordable Housing's Trauma Informed Housing Toolkit. The case study looks at trauma-responsive design renovations made to the largest affordable housing community in Missouri and outlines the process POAH underwent to make these adjustments, including extensive stakeholder engagement.
Published By: Preservation of Affordable Housing
Published Date: 2021
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Design, Social Services, Workforce

Individuals who work within systems that respond to trauma carry a high risk for secondary traumatic stress and vicarious trauma. Building a trauma-responsive organization can support a happy, healthy, and resilient workforce. The Pathways Learning Network convened on April 10, 2023 to learn more about actionable steps that can make your organization more trauma-responsive.
Published By:
Resource Type: Videos
Sectors: Health, Workforce

This report details findings of a Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity workgroup focused on mental health, trauma, and resiliency in the workplace. The report provides key strategies and opportunities for employers to help build supportive workplaces by integrating employee mental health strategies that establish healthier workplaces, enhance employee wellbeing, and promote resilient companies.
Published By: Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity
Published Date: 2022
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Workforce

This policy guide is intended to help organizations develop Human Resource policies and practices that are trauma-informed and support a trauma-informed approach.
Published By: Missouri Department of Mental Health
Published Date: 2018
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Workforce

Utah is at the forefront of efforts to improve its residents’ access to behavioral health (BH) services. In February 2024, the state passed Senate Bill (SB) 26, a bill to remove barriers to licensure and grow the behavioral health workforce. The bill seeks to improve access to behavioral health services in several ways, including creating new certifications for entry-level workers and allowing those with related 4-year degrees a pathway to become licensed as a BH Coach.
Published By: Jeff Shumway
Resource Type: Publications
Sectors: Workforce

This blueprint provides an overview of Oklahoma Department of Human Services' hope-centered and trauma-informed approach to human service delivery for the OKDHS workforce and the individuals and families served by the state.
Published By: Oklahoma Human Services
Published Date: 2020
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Workforce

This document provides foundational information about workforce wellness for organizations in early stages of adopting workforce wellness programs to address secondary traumatic stress.
Published By: Trauma Informed Oregon, Regional Research Institute for Human Services, Portland State University
Published Date: 2016
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Workforce

This practical guide updates and expands the discussion presented in SAMHSA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach Resource from 2014. The primary goal of this guide is to provide implementation strategies across multiple domains based on the original publication.
Published By: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Published Date: 2023
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Early Childhood, Education, Health, Justice, Social Services, Workforce

Professional Quality of Life (proQOL) is intended for any helper - health care professionals, social service workers, teachers, attorneys, emergency response, etc. - to guide understanding of the positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering I order to can improve your ability to help them and your ability to keep your own balance.
Published By: The Center for Victims of Torture
Published Date: 2021
Resource Type: Reports
Sectors: Health, Social Services, Workforce