Web Resources

• Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative: “Establishing collaborative initiatives between mental health and primary care services for individuals with substance use disorders” – a toolkit for providers and planners. Provides information on key issues and implementation of collaborative models and includes appendices with tools and resources.
• Connections Knowledge Exchange is a Canadian research and knowledge exchange group with the goal of improving services to women with substance use issues and their children.
  Community Connections is a treatment and training agency in the U.S. focusing on trauma-informed and trauma-specific approaches for working with those seeking substance use and mental health services.   See “Creating Cultures of Trauma Informed Care”  and these resources by Roger Fallot and Maxine Harris of Community Connections.
  
• Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care (CCTIC): A Self-Assessment and Planning Protocol
• The Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) Guide and TIP Organizational Checklist are intended to support the translation of trauma-informed principles into practice. Included are concrete strategies to guide the professional work of practitioners assisting clients with mental health and substance use (MHSU) concerns in British Columbia.
  
• Trauma-Informed Program Self-Assessment Scale
  
• Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care: Services Implementation Plan
  
• Consumer/Survivor/Recovering Women: A Guide for Partnerships in Collaboration – This report is a product of the Women Co-occurring Disorders and Violence study. Trauma-informed approaches promote collaboration between service users and the systems and policies that affect their care. Program and service provides will find a framework for promoting collaboration and dialogue between women with lived experience and provider systems.
  
• The Jean Tweed Centre offers support and programs to women dealing with substance use and gambling issues and related concerns in Ontario.  All their programs use a trauma-informed approach and they also offer trauma-specific programming. They have developed two programs for mothers and their children. Part of what they consider trauma informed work is addressing how losing custody of children can be traumatic or retraumatizing – and as a result they work closely with Toronto Children’s Aid Society.  A link to the Practice Guidelines developed between substance abuse treatment agencies and Children’s Aid Societies is provided here.
  
• The National Center on Family Homelessness offers a number of articles and toolkits toward helping organizations become trauma-informed. Below are links to some of them.
  • A Long Journey Home: A Guide for Creating Trauma-Informed Services for Mothers and Children Experiencing Homelessness
    http://www.familyhomelessness.org/media/89.pdf
  • Trauma-informed Organizational Toolkit for Homeless Services.  
    http://www.familyhomelessness.org/media/90.pdf
  • What About You? A workbook for those who work with others.
    http://www.familyhomelessness.org/media/94.pdf
  • Organizational Self-Care Assessment
    http://www.familyhomelessness.org/media/95.pdf
• The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services report of September 2010, provides statistics regarding the extent to which substance use treatment centers in the U.S. are assessing clients for trauma and trauma-related mental health concerns as recommended in the US.
• Seeking Safety website offers information on the Seeking Safety curricula by Lisa Najavits, PhD, along with articles, resources and links to assessment tools.
• The Source – entitled “Trauma-informed Services for Families Affected by Substance Use and/or HIV” this volume features three articles by noted trauma-informed researchers, Stephanie Covington, Laurie Markoff and Norma Finkelstein, and Sandra L. Bloom. The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center published this publication from 1993-2010 on issues related to substance use, HIV and child welfare.
• Stephanie Covington, PhD, LCSW, offers gender-responsive, trauma-informed training for those who work with women and girls in a variety of settings. Her training modules include Helping Women Recover, Beyond Trauma, Voices, and A Woman’s Way through The Twelve Steps.
• The Ontario Woman Abuse Screening Project provides in-depth information on woman abuse, trauma and their relationship to mental health and substance use. There are a number of screening tools and a screening video. Also included are information on stabilization and safety planning.
• Building Bridges is a cross-sectoral intiative to support women experiencing violence, mental health and addictions issues. It is led by the Woman Abuse Response Program at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre Vancouver, BC.