Using this Toolkit

To take the first step into integrating a trauma-informed approach, one must first grasp the profound impact trauma can have on our overall wellbeing and communities at large. This understanding forms the cornerstone of a system guided by accessible principles that can steward a path toward healing.

The six main Trauma-Informed Principles focus on:

• Recognizing own trauma, beliefs, biases and strengths

• Promotion of safe, stable, and trusting relationships.

• Creating dependable healthy and compassionate places of work.

• Empowering others while listening to stories that hold trauma and adversity in place.

• Provide spaces for recovery to happen while meeting people where they are at.

• Develop more inclusive spaces that promote curiosity and open-mindedness.

The invitation is to use this toolkit as a guide as you examine best practices for creating better ways to support and maintain trusting relationships that can foster a path to wellbeing. Use, question and adapt checklists suggested so that you can tailor them to your needs. Invite colleagues and other service providers for support; you can’t do this work alone.

To learn more about trauma-informed principles and practices please visit the series of modules.

Toolkit Purpose | Using this Toolkit | Three Strategies | Shared Understanding | Consider the Landscape | Are we on the same Page? | Collaborative Relations | Developing Strategies | Six TI Principles (understand) | Lived Experiences (listen) | Co-Creating (build) | Roadmap moving Forward | Implementing | Measuring & Sharing Success