A Trauma-Responsive Toolkit for Youth Serving Organizations

Type
Toolkit

Category
Case Management, Gun Violence Prevention/Reduction & Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Strategies, Transformation/Healing

Addressing the impacts of trauma in an integrated manner becomes critical to effectively serving vulnerable youth populations, and even more so adolescents with exposure to foster care or homelessness. Youth-serving organizations are best equipped to face the challenges inherent to helping vulnerable populations by using an integrated approach to systematically address trauma. This integrated approach allows already pressured and underresourced organizations and their staff to confront the negative impacts of trauma through existing programmatic activities, policies, and processes - thus decreasing the burden on staff and facilitating focused energy on youth and their communities.