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.
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Communicating Effectively with Families from Refugee Backgrounds in the Early Years | Foundation House
Foundation House has developed a new resource to guide conversations with families from refugee backgrounds. This resource offers practical insights to help practitioner and educators build understanding and trust. Download PDF
You can also read this facilitation guide supports leaders and practice coaches in Early Years Education and Care (ECEC) services and schools to use the Listen. Connect. Follow up. animation as a professional learning tool | Read more
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 (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 (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.
Taking a trauma-informed approach supports the experiences and outcomes for everyone involved in research and evaluation. This AIFS Child Family Community Australia (CFCA) fact sheet outlines the key principles of trauma-informed research and evaluation, identifies who should apply them, and offers practical guidance for putting them into practice.
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.
Childhood Trauma and the Brain UK Trauma Council | 5 mins | Open in new tab
A general introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood, like abuse and neglect.
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetimeNadine Burke Harris, TEDTalk | 16 mins | Open in new tab
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Providing trauma-informed care: A case study of Weave Youth and Community ServicesNSW Mental Health Commission | 3:26 mins | Open in new tab
