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Emotional Health Resources, Trauma and Resilience

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Trauma-informed approaches are essential to harm reduction. Here you’ll find information on trauma, resilience, mental health first aid, and emotional wellbeing—both for those you support and for your own care and longevity.

Trauma & Recovery

Trauma Research Foundation

Trauma Resource Center

Cleveland Clinic has a Guide to Trauma in their Health Library

ACE Aware maintains a Resource and Information Section

Trauma Informed Service Provision

SAMHSA Tip Sheet #57 and their Practical Guide for Implementing a

Trauma-Informed Approach

Manitoba Trauma Information and Education Centre has a number of Resources including a Trauma Informed Toolkit

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has a guide for Creating Trauma Informed Services

Positive Psychology & Resilience

UPenn has the Authentic Happiness Center

Yale has a famous Science of Wellbeing class

International Positive Psychology Association

The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Mindful.org

Grateful Living

Mental Health & MH First Aid

National Alliance of Mental Illness, NAMI hosts a wide variety of Support and Education information

Mental Health First AID from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing

Other sets of external resources including toolkits, practical guides, and deep-dive materials on topics like de-escalation, mental health support, participant accountability, overdose response, and more:

Featured Hacks

These featured hacks highlight creative, practical solutions from harm reduction leaders on the ground. From DIY tools to clever workarounds, each one reflects the ingenuity, care, and real-world experience that keeps this movement alive. 

Trauma-Informed

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The term “trauma-informed” emerges from a growing understanding of the far reaching ways that trauma impacts health and well-being. Trauma is defined here, in keeping with the scientific literature, as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience(s) that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, and significantly impacts their mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
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Resilience Building

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Because so many of us are so similar to the folks we serve, including the trauma we carry with us, and because it is now recognized that extreme stress impacts people who care for people experiencing that trauma nearly as much as the people directly impacted by that trauma, it is essential that people in […]
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