Trauma-Informed Resources
Becoming trauma-informed requires education, training, and ongoing self-reflection. It is about cultivating empathy, compassion, and an understanding of how trauma affects individuals and communities. By being trauma-informed, individuals and communities can play a vital role in creating spaces that promote healing, resilience, and recovery for those who have experienced trauma.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To learn more about trauma-informed approaches and related topics, the following resources provide a foundational understanding.
The Whole Health Louisiana (WHL) State Plan is Louisiana’s first statewide plan to systematically address the widespread issue of childhood adversity and trauma through the integration of trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches in our state’s systems of care and support for children and families. Addressing this issue is critical to the well-being and fulfillment of our state’s children, families, and communities.
Trauma-informed guides and toolkits, coalitions, and research for multiple sectors, from education and healthcare to the legal system and funding.
Multiple resources for families, including tips for handling real-life situations, available in English and Spanish.
Videos, infographics, and instructional briefs on multiple subjects related to childhood development, stress, and resilience.
Louisiana Childhood Adversity Resilience Education (LA CARE) Network is a no-cost, train-the-trainer program designed to expand understanding of childhood adversity and how community-level resilience building can prevent and mitigate its lifelong effects within our communities across the state.
Resources include trauma-focused trainings and assessments for multiple audiences and topics related to childhood adversity and trauma. Spanish resources are available.
A free, publicly accessible social network that provides programmatic and policy support focused on the promotion of trauma-informed and resilience-building practices and policies for multiple audiences and populations.
Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) is the nation’s oldest and largest organization committed to preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens. PCAA promotes programs and resources informed by science that enable kids, families, and entire communities to thrive—today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.
SAMHSA’s multiple trauma-focused resources include the Practical Guide for Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach. The SAMHSA website as a whole provides a vast array of public health resources for diverse audiences as well as funding opportunities. Multiple language options are available.
A nationally recognized repository that provides information on both evidence-based and non-evidence-based child welfare-related practices to statewide agencies, counties, public and private organizations, and individuals.
This website, developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies, provides resources from trauma-informed care leaders across the country to help improve patient outcomes, increase patient and staff resilience, and reduce avoidable health care service use and costs. While geared toward health care, many of these lessons from this website can be applied elsewhere, including in social services and education.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website offers trainings, tools, and resources to help you prevent childhood adversity and create positive childhood experiences. Multiple language options are available.
Share Your Experience Integrating Trauma-Informed Approaches
A priority of Whole Health Louisiana is to identify and amplify best practices from partners across the state to promote the adoption and integration of trauma-informed approaches and supportive workforce policies and practices. We invite members of the Whole Health Louisiana Coalition, partners of the initiative, and all residents to share their experiences with implementing trauma-informed approaches, highlighting successes, and opportunities for growth.
This brief survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete, but it may take longer depending on how much you would like to share. With your consent, we may include partner success stories in our updates to coalition members, feature them on the Whole Health Louisiana website, or include them in publicly available reports to advance the prevention of childhood adversity and its impacts through the adoption of trauma-informed and healing-centered principles.
Complete the survey using this link.