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Full resources list

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

Trauma‐informed co‐production: Collaborating and combining expertise to improve access to primary care with women with complex needs – McGeown – 2023 – Health Expectations – Wiley Online Library

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

Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: joining the dots across key policy agendas

Trauma and resilience informed research principles and practice: A framework to improve the inclusion and experience of disadvantaged populations in health and social care research – Natalie L Edelman, 2023

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

Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

https://www.nhsrho.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/7-PRINCIPLES-GRAPHIC.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/race-racism-and-safeguarding-children

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/

How to support refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people who have experienced trauma – UK Trauma Council

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

Therapeutic Supports for Neurodiverse Children Who Have Experienced Interpersonal Trauma: a Scoping Review | Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Revolving-Doors-neurodiversity-policy-position.pdf

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/culture-of-care-standards-for-mental-health-inpatient-services

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

TrACE Toolkit – ACE Hub Wales

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 Leadership: Transforming Workplaces for the Better – Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd

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 co-production

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

Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: joining the dots across key policy agendas

Other:

How Does a Community Become Trauma Informed HD

The BCR Approach | Center for Community Resilience | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University

We Are the Medicine® Framework

Trauma-Informed Community Building and Engagement

GUIDE: Trauma-Informed Community Change

https://www.traumainformedcommunity.org

Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: joining the dots across key policy agendas

https://www.traumainformedcommunity.org

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 Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement | by Shawn Ginwright | Medium

Doing Trauma-Informed Work in a Trauma-Informed Way: Understanding Difficulties and Finding Solutions

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)

https://www.traumainformedlaw.co.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

How (and Why) Ikea Embraced Trauma-Informed Design in Crafting Housing for the Homeless – Retail News & More

“Trauma-informed Care Certificate for Customer Service Professionals”

Lived Experience | Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands