Implementing Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care

"""This handbook is compulsory reading for any health care professional, administrator, or policy maker to develop the competencies to understand trauma- and violence-informed care and to ensure practice, policy, organizations, and health systems are developing approaches to prevent harm and improve outcomes. - David Byres, President and CEO, Provincial Health Services Authority ""This handbook is solidly grounded in an intersectional paradigm and relational approach and articulates clearly a structural and systemic lens to trauma and violence. It is an indispensable guide to improving health and social services experiences and outcomes at multiple levels by practitioners and organizational and system leaders."" - Amélie Blanchet Garneau, Indigenous Research Chair in Nursing-CIHR and Associate Professor of Nursing, Université de Montréal ""This is a timely resource for addressing the impact of historical and present-day structural trauma experienced by racialized people. The authors' critical approach to violence and trauma-informed care anchored in socio-ecological and intersectional theories attends to the complexity of systemic barriers including micro politics, macro dynamics of power, and intersecting oppressions. This approach is very important for a nuanced understanding of not only the impact of trauma on people's lives and well-being, but the deep-seated causes of trauma. Implementing Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care is a crucial book for mental health care practice."" - Josephine B. Etowa, OHTN Chair in Black Women's HIV Prevention and Care and Professor of Nursing, University of Ottawa"