NYAPRS Note: The National Center on Trauma-Informed Care has announced the availability of a new draft technical assistance document, Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook, by Andrea Blanch, Beth Filson & Darby Penney, with contributions by Cathy Cave. Available for download at: http://www.nasmhpd.org/EngagingWomen.cfm. See description below.
Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook
This guide was created by the National Center on Trauma-Informed Care as a technical assistance document to help make trauma-informed peer support available to women who receive or have received services in behavioral health or other human service systems. It is designed as a resource for peer supporters in these or other settings who want to learn how to integrate trauma-informed principles into their relationships with the women they support or into the peer support groups of which they are members. The goal is to provide peer supporters-both male and female-with the understanding, tools, and resources needed to engage in culturally responsive, trauma-informed peer support relationships with women.
The guide can be downloaded as a single file (8MB) or chapter by chapter through the links below.
Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook (entire document)
Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support
Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook (chapter-by-chapter)
Front and back covers
Table of Contents and Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practices
Chapter 2. Am I a Trauma Survivor?
Chapter 3. Peer Support Fundamentals
Chapter 4. Gender Politics and the Criminalization of Women
Chapter 5. Culture and Trauma
Chapter 6. Religion, Spirituality, and Trauma
Chapter 7. Trauma-Informed Peer Support Across the Lifespan
Chapter 8. Trauma and Peer Support Relationships
Chapter 9. Self-Awareness and Self-Care
Chapter 10. Organizational Context: Working in Systems
Chapter 11. Trauma-Informed Storytelling and Other Healing Practices
Chapter 12. Self-Inflicted Violence and Peer Support
Chapter 13. Reclaiming Power Through Social Action