Resilient PA and Heal PA strive to foster resilient Pennsylvania youth, families and communities through promoting trauma informed care and systems across sectors as well as promoting efforts to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors for youth and families to break cycles of family and community trauma.
This manual introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organization, system, or service sector.
Provide a starting place for agencies and systems from a variety of sectors to assess where they fall in a continuum of trauma-informed care and to engage them in a process of setting agency improvement goals.
Provides child, youth, and family serving agencies and organizations with guidance on how and why to meaningfully engage family members into the decision-making process around the content and direction of services, interventions, and/or referrals made in the course of case management and planning.
Guidance for communities to enhance connections among diverse organizations and systems across sectors to support children, youth, and families who have experienced trauma.
A graphic depicting a model of service delivery for children, youth, and families aimed to prevent the impact of ACEs through linked systems of care.
Five e-Learning courses have been developed to support Virginia HEALS’ implementation of the Trauma-Informed Model of Service Delivery – including community resource mapping, trauma-informed screening, screening for experiences and strengths, the referral and response protocol, and how to engage families.
Describes the continuum of trauma-informed care including definitions, processes, and indicators.
Website on child trauma, treatment and practices, trauma-informed cafre, and resources and training.
A framework that provides a vision, direction, shared language, and concrete examples for child-serving organizations and agencies seeking to better serve children and families who may have experienced trauma.