March 11, 2024

Identifying Adversity to Promote Healing: Approaches to Screening Across Settings and Populations

Understanding and addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) is an important component of promoting health and resilience. On September 12, 2023, Pathways to Resilience brought together experts Laurie Crawford from the Virginia Department of Social Services Office of Trauma and Resilience Policy, Antoinette Medina from the California Rural Indian Health Board’s Rural Epidemiology Center, and Mikah Owen from the UCLA-UCSF ACEs

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October 4, 2023

Building Healing-Centered, Trauma-Responsive Networks of Care

Pathways to Resilience has developed this guide to help communities and organizations build and establish their own trauma-responsive network of care. It explains the effects of trauma and toxic stress and evidence-based strategies for addressing them and outlines milestones for communities and organizations to establish effective networks of care.

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September 18, 2023

Virginia HEALS Toolkit

The Virginia HEALS Toolkit includes a number of resources that have been developed to support community and state-level implementation of the Trauma-Informed Model of Service Delivery, including the Community Resource Mapping Facilitation Guide, the Trauma-Informed Healing course, a Referral and Response Protocol, and a Family Engagement Guide.

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June 20, 2023

Practical Guide for Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach

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.

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April 10, 2023

Resource Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services

This guide provides an introduction to the topic of trauma, a discussion of why understanding and addressing trauma is important for human service programs, and relevant resources for implementing trauma-informed policies and practices for leaders at the local, state, tribal, and territorial levels. Topics include ACEs, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and historical trauma; providing trauma-informed services; building staff capacity and

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