Resources

The following is a list of links and resources that providers have contributed to PeakCare as useful documents when considering therapeutic trauma-informed practice approaches and allied topics. PeakCare is not endorsing these documents, the links are provided are information only. This list will grow as service providers have been requested to send through favourite links and articles to the Hope and Healing Professional Development Strategy. If you have a favourite article or link that you believe would be of benefit to colleagues, send to office@peakcare.org.au for uploading to Hope and Healing website.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

• SNAICC – Resources for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people
• Healing Foundation – Intergenerational Trauma and Healing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people
• Australian Institute of Family Studies – Trauma-informed services and trauma specific care for Indigenous Australian children

Child safe organisations

• Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – Creating Child Safe Institutions

Early years and younger children

• Women’s Health Goulbourn, Literature Review – A Trauma Sensitive Approach for Children aged 0 – 8 years
• Australian Institute of Family Studies – Effect of Trauma on the Brain Development of Children

Disability

• Western Sydney University, House with No Steps, Department of Family and Community Services – Research Findings from implementing a Trauma-Informed Framework in a Disability Non-Government Organisation

Residential and other care settings

• Social Care Institute for Excellence, Queens University Belfast – Therapeutic approaches to social work in residential care settings literature review
• Australian Institute of Family Studies – Paper on Trauma-informed Care in Child/Family Welfare Services

Trauma-sensitive schooling

• Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, a collaboration of Massachusetts Advocates for Children and Harvard Law School
• Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network – Why be a Trauma Sensitive School?

Other practice tools and processes

• The Three Houses – Framework tools and booklet
• The impact of trauma on children and young people in care – A poster of findings from Berry Street Study

Young people

• The Centre for Youth AOD Practice Development, Deakin University, resources primarily targeting young people involved with alcohol and drugs – the ERIC resources in helping young people to regulate their emotions and control impulsive behaviours
• Child Safety Commissioner, Victoria commission report, and written by Laurel Downey – From isolation to connection: a guide to understanding and working with traumatised children and young people

Workforce training

• Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, Victoria – initiatives including trauma-informed practice unit
• Australian Childhood Foundation – includes links to Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma and International Childhood Trauma Conference
• The Australian Childhood Trauma group