Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

Building a Trauma Informed System of Care System of Care Meetings

Trauma-Informed Organizations have now made trauma-responsive practices the norm. The trauma model no longer depends on just a few leaders to keep these practices alive. The governance of the organization supports and invests in maintaining a trauma informed approach. There is identified leadership within the organization tasked to oversee the work of building the change process. The organization partners with other agencies to strengthen trauma informed practices communitywide. These practices include offering programs to reduce secondary trauma for staff and seeking to hire staff members who demonstrate a commitment to trauma focused services moving forward.

As community partners are added to your system of care, Systems of Care meetings offer an opportunity to learn more about what services each partnering agency provides. Often resources essential to meet the needs of individuals are readily available within partner organizations, yet without communication the resources are unknown and unused. Since a system of care brings together a multi- disciplinary set of partners that may be unlikely to meet together around any other cause, take advantage of the opportunity to have varying agencies share what they do at each meeting. This will begin to set you up for the final goal of creating a community of care, collaboration, which will be discussed in a later section of this toolkit.

...without communication the resources are unknown and unused.

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