On this page you will find a collection of resources for workers at all levels, that can help integrate trauma-informed care into your practice or embed it within your service delivery.
This DFFH framework outlines the terms, principles and practice domains associated with trauma, contains practical advice for working with children and young people, individuals and families and provides an example of trauma-informed practice.
This policy paper aims to define and clarify what trauma-informed service delivery means in the context of delivering child/family welfare services in Australia.
This practical guide by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation contains comprehensive advice, using genuine case studies to explore how Early Childhood Organisations and leaders can support trauma reducing practices across their organisations and support staff at all levels to practice and embed trauma informed approaches.
The Integrated Trauma-Informed Care Framework is for all health staff, including clinical staff, management, intake, administration, educators and policy staff.
This paper aims to establish a universal, accepted concept of trauma and trauma-informed approaches across diverse service systems and stakeholders. It offers six key principles and ten implementation domains related to implementing a trauma-informed approach.
This brief draws on interviews with national experts on trauma informed care to create a framework for organisational and clinical changes that can be implemented across the health care sector to address trauma.
This webpage provides a series of fact sheets for an overview of trauma, its effects, and how to support someone who may have experienced trauma. The fact sheets are in plain English and languages other than English.
This briefing paper provides an overview of what we know about cognitive development in children you have experienced trauma and offers principles to support effective practice responses to those children’s trauma.
Crucial connections: understanding a child’s relational heath offers strategies for professionals working with trauma-impacted children, emphasising the importance of understanding relational health, creating a supportive network, and using relationships as therapeutic tools.
Engaging children in out-of-home care in therapeutic services shares insight into relational health for trauma-effected children, building a ‘therapeutic web’ of support, and how professionals in these spaces might use relationships to facilitate healing and daily therapeutic engagement.
This practice guide is Part 1 in a series by AIFS Child Family Community Australia information exchange (CFCA), providing a foundational overview of trauma-informed research. It explains what it is, why it is valuable, and outlines high-level principles to apply in projects.
As Part 2 in the series AIFS Child Family Community Australia information exchange (CFCA), this guide provides evidence-informed, practical insights for doing trauma-informed research, program, and service evaluation in a way that is accessible and safe for participants who may or may not have experienced trauma.
The PRESTARSS project investigates secondary trauma in Australian researchers working on sensitive topics such as trauma, violence, and mental health. Through interviews and co-design workshops, the project developed nine resources and established The AASERT Network, a peer support network for researchers in this field. These initiatives aim to enhance researcher wellbeing and promote strategies for preventing and responding to secondary trauma in academic research.
