Implement trauma-informed principles in practice

While providing services

• Engage in continuous learning. Reflect on how you are providing services using trauma-informed principles.

• Empower teams. Creating leadership roles to advance trauma-informed principles in practice.

• Take time to make changes. Provide a realistic timeframe for changes.

• Observe barriers. Develop ways to address them.

• Follow and/or adapt your action plan and check list.

• Recognize (and celebrate!) small steps towards progress.

While working with partners

• Continue to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships. Revisit what relationships are working. Repair or reach out to others.

• Continue to ask: Who is missing?

• Recognize efforts. Talk about ways to improve.

• Consider what is working and consider the barriers. (Look at previous charts)

• Continue to develop shared agreements with key partners. (Revisit - you can always circle back to continue learning about TIPs together).

Consider what is working

There may be things that are already in place.

Ask how we can:

• Build from aspects/efforts that are already in place? (Avoid reinventing the wheel).

• Continue to strengthen trust by establishing regular communication.
  

AIMS is an additional tool to implement small ideas into action. When it comes to making this practice change, what do you think it would take for you and your team to make it happen? 

• Ability - Having the skills, knowledge and ability to take action.

• Interpersonal - Social and environmental influences that support action.

• Motivation - Believing the action is important.

• Sparks  - Making actions routine.

Consider this example about making a habit of riding a bike. 

Click here to use the assessment. 

Purpose | Using this toolkit | Framework for change | Understand trauma | Develop roadmap | Create spaces | Co-design practices | Implement practices | Amplify efforts