Links & Resources
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In the media

• Globe & Mail - Reverse the Adverse, Early Childhood.
• The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Marla Sokolowski - The Biology of Childhood Hardship

Websites

• The Fraser Mustard Institute
• The Jean Tweed Centre - Great reports and stats! And a great organization.
• The Ontario Drug Treatment Funding Program trauma response
• ACEs Connection Healthy, happy kids grow up to create a healthy, happy world. Models/Training for Developing Trauma-Informed Systems of Care
  
• A veritable cornucopia of links on a wide variety of trauma related topics.
  
• Great West Life Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace
  

Military and Familyhttp://www.invisibleribbon.ca/





CAMH resources ( The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)
Toronto, ON, Canada

• Main CAMH page Page
• Becoming Trauma Informed is a new book from CAMH that recognizes that the majority of mental health and addictions clients have some kind of trauma history and presents some innovative ways that this recognition is being addressed across the field in a variety settings and with different populations  http://store.camh.ca/product.php?productid=462&cat=0&page=1&featured

• CAMH’s brochure Common Questions about Trauma outlines what abuse-related trauma is, how the effects of trauma develop, and why healing and getting help are important.
• CAMH’s brochure Women: What Do These Signs Have in Common? helps women recognize that current challenges such as depression, sleep disturbances, relationship challenges, anxiety and/or  substance use can be signs of untreated trauma responses.
• CAMH’s booklet for front line workers in a range of setting to increase comfort with disclosure and help with referral Bridging Responses: A front-line worker’s guide to supporting women who have post-traumatic stress
• CAMH’s book for counsellors, First Stage Trauma Treatment: A guide for mental health professionals working with womenhttp://store.camh.ca/product.php?productid=282&cat=0&page=2
• Brochure about PTSD for refugees who have experienced violence, disaster, war, see CAMH’s public information brochure on PTSD for refugees and new immigrants.
• CAMH has a photo-novella (story in photographs) for clients that depicts a refugee child’s trauma response (PDF only), published in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Tamil.
• CAMH’s tutorial for people working in non-clinical roles provides basic information about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including signs that someone may have PTSD; the differences between common reactions to trauma and PTSD; how PTSD affects the people who have it and those around them; ways to respond to someone who has been through a traumatic event.

Networks & Associations ETC.From Around the World
(Canada does not have one)
The European Network for Traumatic StressTENTS produced an evidence-based model of care with dissemination materials as brochures and guidelines and e-learning materials. The TENTS-TP project (The European Network for Traumatic Stress - Training & Practice) will expand and develop the network and connect to other important European initiatives in the field of psychosocial care after trauma. TENTS-TP aims to implement evidence-based interventions to prevent trauma survivors from developing posttraumatic disorders and interventions to promote (early) recovery. 

  
sisst.net/Italian Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress
  
istss.org/Home.htmInternational Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
  
European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)

• ESTSS seeks to ensure that clinical research and policy practices in the field of psychotraumatology are informed by evidence systematically gathered and publicly scrutinized.
• ESTSS seeks to ensure continued prominence is given to all aspects of traumatic stress and its many repercussions.
• ESTSS seeks to promote networking between individuals and organizations within the field of psychotraumatology.

  
SAMSAAmerican substance abuse and mental health admin has some trauma stuff.
  
DART The DART centre for Journalism and trauma
  
Childtrauma.comAn American effort with a focus on child trauma.
  
Gift from WithinGift From Within PTSD Resources for Survivors and Caregivers
  
www.nasmhpd.orgAmerican National Association of Mental Health Program Directors - Report pdf
Journals & Blogs

• The Trauma and Mental Health Report - Blog and connection to articles from York University, Toronto, Canada
• European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT). A peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open access journal and the official organ of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
• Jeugdinterventies.nl - Working with children in Holland

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