Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Collaboration and Action Steps

Action Steps

Because you now understand the steps of advocate, edu cate, and collaborate, you are ready to begin your work to create a trauma informed system of care. As mentioned in Chapter 6, Evaluation: Reach, Effectiveness, Successes, & Barriers , you need to realize that this will be a journey and not happen overnight. There will be hurdles along the way. However, if you are committed to seeing your community become trauma informed, you now have tools to make the desire a reality. What started in Johnson City with only two people in 2015, is now spreading throughout the region where many partners are actively engaged in this effort. Our system of care regularly hosts visitors from many other states, including the First Lady of Delaware, who are all com ing to learn how to trauma inform their communities. We encourage you to use this toolkit like a roadmap. Go back to the beginning and form your action steps for moving forward. Follow it, step by step. The most important part of the journey is to get started! For your convenience, this toolkit includes materials to help you take these steps. Copies of the four hour Trauma In formed Approach, Key Principles and Assumptions slides; copies of the six hour train the trainer training, and a copy of the several assessment instruments are included. Several chapters include links to additional training, talking points, curriculum, and more. If you have questions as you embark on creating a trauma informed system of care, please feel free to contact us at Becky.Haas@balladhealth.org or clements@etsu.edu.

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