This is taken from an interactive guide I created as part of a consultancy project, there are a lot & I removed quite a few! I will be adding but just don’t want it to get too overwhelming – I’ve put them all on one list just for here, but I have grouped them:
- Lived Experience
- Staff Wellbeing
- Discrimination – general, racism, LGBTQ+, Neurodiverse, Learning disabilities
- General resources
- ACE Specific
- Psychological Safety
- Organisations
- Communities – UK & Others
- Deeper more specific – general, health, criminal justice,
- Customer Service/ business
Lived Experience
Lisa Cherry Co-production guide Trauma informed co-production
Expert Link – Humanity. Honesty. Hope.
National Expert Citizens Group – Revolving Doors
Becoming trauma informed – the significance of lived experiences – Lifestyle Health Foundation
Addressing Inequalities and discrimination
General:
Tackling poor health outcomes: the role of trauma-informed care | The King’s Fund
Tackling Inequalities Trauma and Adversity across the Lifespan
NHS England » Culture of care standards for mental health inpatient services
The wheel of power and privilege • Recipes for Wellbeing
Jessica Sharpe: The Brain on Poverty | TED Talk
Racism
How to be an Inclusive Leader – Jennifer Brown
Beyond Discomfort: Why inclusive leadership is so hard – Nadia Nagamootoo &Why Do We Struggle with Inclusive Leadership?
Trauma-Informed Care in Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority Communities https://www.nhsrho.org/research/identifying-best-mental-health-practice-with-gypsy-roma-and-traveller-communities-2/
Applying Trauma-Informed Practices to the Care of Refugee and Immigrant Youth children-06-00094.pdf
LGBTQ+
Providing trauma-informed care to patients who identify as LGBTQAI Nursing2025
LGBTQ+ Trauma-Informed Care Trauma-InformedCare-Final
Trauma and the LGBT Community: An In-Depth Look | NMW Recovery
Neurodiverse
Revolving-Doors-neurodiversity-policy-position.pdf
Learning disabilities
Understanding people with learning disabilities in the context of their previous experiences Trauma-iNFORMED CARE- A TOOLKIT FOR CARERS
Top 10 tips Trauma-Informed Approaches for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Staff Wellbeing
Laura Van Dermoot Lipsky – Trauma Stewardship
What it takes to heal by Prentis Hemphill
The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey Jr
Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
Amy Edmondson – Fearless Organisations What Is Psychological Safety?
Doing What Matters in Times of Stress
Are Emotions Contagious in the Workplace? | Brandon Smith | TEDxEmory – YouTube
Sustainable Compassion training for healthcare workers Sustainable Compassion Training: Integrating Meditation Theory With Psychological Science (nih.gov)
Compassion Fatigue – Dr Gabor Maté – ACE-Aware Scotland 2023
Burnout in Healthcare Workers: Prevalence, Impact and Preventative Strategies – PMC (nih.gov)
Team dynamics: The five keys to building effective teams – Think with Google
Critical Incident Critical Incident Staff Support Pathway (CrISSP) :: Workforce Transformation
Trauma-Informed-Post-Incident-Conversation-Guide.pdf
General
Books & media
The Boy Who was Raised a Dog by Dr Bruce Perry
Trauma Proof by Ben Perks
The Myth of Normal By Dr Gabor Mate
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
The Deepest Well by Dr Nadine Burke-Harris
Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People/ Belonging by Lisa Cherry
Healing Your Childhood Trauma | The Oprah Podcast (with Dr Bruce Perry)
Childhood Trauma and the Brain 5min video https://youtube.com/watch?v=EFrfBJrVLbE&feature=shares & more resources here Childhood Trauma and the Brain – UKTC (uktraumacouncil.org)
ACE Specific
Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | TED Talk
Be Ace Aware – Ace Aware Wales
Psychological trauma and adversity including ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) – gov.scot
WHO & PH Wales report on Tackling Adverse Childhood Experiences 2023-01-state-of-the-art-report-eng.pdf (ljmu.ac.uk)
Review of original ACE Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326558/
Adverse childhood experiences and life opportunities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740916303449
Psychological safety (see also on Staff Wellbeing link)
One safe adult research https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1260-z
Sheri Geller Shari Geller – Official Website – Tools for Cultivating Presence
Connecting with young people in trouble by Andi Brierley
Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
Organisations
Barnardos-Trauma-Informed-ENG-Workbook-WebReady-Smaller.pdf
A Treasure Box for Creating Trauma-Informed Organizations/ Trauma-Informed Health Care – Dr Karen Treisman
Trauma informed practice: learning from experience (accessible) – GOV.UK
Guidance-for-Trauma-Informed-Policy-and-Practice-Eng.pdf
Trauma-informed Strategy – development plan template | National Education Union
Lisa Cherry & Karen Treisman Season 4, Episode 2, Changing The Culture: Trauma Informed Services
Trauma-informed Design Society | Home
Not directly TI but related
The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey Jr
Drive by Daniel Pink
Fearless Organisations by Amy Edmondson
Relational Change by Liz Wiggins and Harriet Hunter
Communities
UK:
Trauma-Informed-Wales-Framework.pdf
An Introduction to Community Trauma by Betsy de Thierry
ACEs-What-Works-in-Community-Interventions-English-final.pdf
Other:
How Does a Community Become Trauma Informed HD
We Are the Medicine® Framework
Trauma-Informed Community Building and Engagement
GUIDE: Trauma-Informed Community Change
Trauma Informed Community Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbu58p0fbA
In depth/ specialist (see also discrimination)
General:
Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines
Advancing a national cradle-to-grave-to-cradle public health agenda (tandfonline.com) Sandra Bloom
Trauma-Informed Care: Revolution or Rhetoric? 19 April 2022 on Vimeo
The Trauma-Informed Movement And How To take Steps Beyond For Those Falling Through the Gaps.
Health:
Karen Treisman – Trauma Informed Health Care
responding-to-psychosocial-health-as-part-of-a-trauma-response-in-an-emergency-setting.pdf
Public Health England, The effectiveness of trauma informed approaches to prevent adverse outcomes in mental health and wellbeing
(Mis)understanding trauma-informed approaches in mental health Full article: (Mis)understanding trauma-informed approaches in mental health (tandfonline.com)
Trauma-informed practice to support people who have experienced psychological trauma | BPS
Criminal Justice
Within Criminal Justice Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice (justiceinspectorates.gov.uk)
The Policing Mind: Developing Trauma Resilience for a New Era – Jessica Miller
Policing Trauma Informed Policing – Part 1 (youtube.com)
Trauma Informed Policing – Part 2 (youtube.com)
Prison Trauma Informed Care Within Prisons (Trailer) (youtube.com)
Understanding Childhood Adversity, Resilience and Crime (www.gov.scot)
ACES-Guidance-for-the-policing-Sector.pdf (adph.org.uk)
Stephanie Covington, Ph.D. – trauma-informed and gender-sensitive programs
Customer Service/ business
Retail Reimagined: A Blueprint for Trauma-Informed Customer Experiences | Rutgers Business Review
Trauma Informed Customer Service – ACE Awareness & Trauma Informed Training
“Trauma-informed Care Certificate for Customer Service Professionals”
Lived Experience | Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands