Trauma Informed Approach Content Topic Results

The National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health (NCDVTMH) has designed this toolkit for organizations serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their children. Its purpose is to support organizations in their efforts to become more accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed (ACRTI) in their approach and services.

This toolkit provides trauma-informed guidance on integrating questions about mental health and substance use coercion into routine mental health and substance use histories and into in-depth IPV assessments in primary care and behavioral health settings.

In recognition of Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month, this webinar highlights the work of Rights4Girls. Presenters explore how the intersections of race, gender and violence cause the most marginalized girls to be criminalized for their experiences of sexual violence and sexual exploitation.

This brief describes findings of a research study that seeks to understand the experiences of Latina women and their children when seeking asylum due to gender based violence and to document the experiences of those who have been detained while seeking asylum for gender based violence, the consequences of detention on survivors of violence, and post-detention service needs.

The SART Toolkit is available for local, multi-disciplinary teams working on sexual assault cases. This toolkit is a source for information and resources related to working as a team, responding to sexual assault, starting a SART, engaging your community, and much more.

This presentation from Disability Rights Wisconsin outlines the increased risks that people with disabilities face surrounding issues of sexual assault and domestic violence. It also provides information about characteristics of perpetrators and barriers to reporting and receiving services.

The Adult Human Trafficking Screening Tool (AHTST) is designed for use across various health care, behavioral health, social services, and public health settings in order to assess adult patients or clients for human trafficking victimization or risk for potential trafficking victimization.

This is a form used for trauma informed reporting of incidents of sexual assault.

This report provides an overview on the many issues facing unaccompanied children from Central America who have been apprehended at the Southwest border of the United States.

Building from what trafficking survivors have taught us, this webinar discusses how to identify survivors, how past experience of help-seeking can influence current attempts, and the importance of trauma-informed care at different points of contact with survivors such as raids, arrest, and at shelters.

In this webinar, presenters describe the development of the Trauma Informed Practice (TIP) Scales, which measure the degree to which programs engage in trauma-informed practices from the perspective of program participants.

These best practices emphasize the use of collaborative, victim-centered, and multidisciplinary approaches to improve evidence collection and preservation, increase consistency and provide uniformity for the prioritization and transferal of evidence, enhance laboratory process efficiencies for DNA testing, and advance investigative practices and agency protocols.