Category: Key Values

“Children develop within an environment of relationships that begins in the family but also involves other adults who play important roles in their lives. This can include extended family members, providers of early care and education, nurses, social workers, coaches, and neighbors,” states the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University in From Best…

In 2012, SAMHSA’s groundbreaking National Center for Trauma-Informed Care project published this description: “Trauma-informed care is an approach to engaging people with histories of trauma that recognizes the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role that trauma has played in their lives.” This is a key definition for our understanding of trauma-informed care as…

Trauma Informed California is dedicated to helping publicly funded agencies understand the impact of trauma on their clients, both individually and as a group, and to then use that understanding to design programs (interventions, policies, training) to work more effectively with their clients. We use the Fallot and Harris (2001) framework from “Using Trauma Theory…