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.
This guide is intended to provide an introduction to the topic of trauma, a discussion of why understanding and addressing trauma is important for human services programs, and a “road map” to find relevant resources.
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.
This issue brief outlines the essential components of a trauma-informed child welfare system and features examples from State and local programs that are incorporating trauma-informed practice.
Guidance for communities to enhance connections among diverse organizations and systems across sectors to support children, youth, and families who have experienced trauma.
Tool that assesses the implementation of trauma-informed approaches in various organizational settings and the effectiveness of services for clients 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.
A library of Michigan state and non-profit initiatives to prevent and mitigate the impact of trauma and toxic stress for children and adults.