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Organization: Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Publication Date: 2009
People who are homeless often experience trauma, mental illness, and/or substance use problems. Recovery happens in relationships that help people move past these obstacles. These ten tips can help your agency create an environment that supports recovery.
1) Create a physical environment that is welcoming and safe, where different ways of expressing emotions are tolerated. Developing a welcoming environment does not necessarily require an expens...
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2008
It’s easier than you might think to create a physical space that will help people feel welcome and safe. Check out these tips.
The way physical space is designed often reflects how agencies feel about the staff and the people they serve. Designing a welcoming environment isn’t necessarily expensive. . It may require assessing the features of the current space and adapting them so that they are welcoming to individuals and families with histories...
Organization: SAMHSA
Publication Date: 2008
The Long Journey Home was written as a response to some startling lessons we have learned from the field of homelessness over the last decade. It is intended to serve as a guide to agencies looking for practical ideas about how to create trauma-informed environments. It is best viewed as a template and should be supplemented by your knowledge and expertise regarding the most effective adaptations for working with families in your own program.
Developing Trauma-Informed Services for Families Experiencing Homelessness: An Interactive Training Video and Guide, is an educational resource for service providers. This training package focuses on the relationship between homelessness and traumatic stress and on how to apply trauma concepts to providers’ daily work with families experiencing homelessness. The following sections provide an overview of the topic and instructions about how to u...
Organization: National Center on Family Homelessness
Publication Date: 2009
This toolkit provides information for homeless services providers about integrating trauma-informed care principles into their organizations. This toolkit was developed to address the high prevalence of trauma amongst those experiencing homelessness.
The prevalence of traumatic stress in the lives of families experiencing homelessness is extraordinarily high. Often these families have experienced on-going trauma throughout their lives in the form...