This page will provides you with helpful resources and useful links to reading material, guidance and trauma informed practice research
| ACE Networks | |
| Building a Trauma Informed Nation in NI | click here |
| Northern Ireland Regional ACE Reference Group | click here |
| NHS - ACE Aware Nation in Scotland | click here |
| Public Health Wales - ACEs in Wales | click here |
| Northern Ireland ACE Conference Report (2019) | click here |
| Queens University Belfast Evidence Review of Trauma Informed Practice | |
| Evidence Review - Developing Trauma informed Practice in Northern Ireland - Full Report | click here |
| Key messages summary report | click here |
| The Child Welfare System report | click here |
| The Education System report | click here |
| The Health and Mental Health Care System report | click here |
| The Justice System report | click here |
| Literature of Trauma Informed Practice | |
| SAMSHA Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma Informed Approach | click here |
| SAMSHA Working Definition of Recovery | click here |
| Early Intervention Foundation: Cost of Late Intervention in Northern Ireland | click here |
| University of Ulster: The mediating role of various types of social networks on psychopathology following adverse childhood experiences | click here |
| University of Ulster: ACEs among university students, and the relationship with lifetime mood and anxiety disorder | click here |
| Lancet Public Health Report: The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis | click here |
| Bellis et al (2018) ACEs and Sources of Childhood Resilience | click here |
| Larkin et al (2014) Social Work and ACE Research: Implications for Practice and Health Policy | click here |
| Biglan et al (2017) Evolving a more nurturing society to prevent ACEs | click here |
| House of Commons: First 1001 days report (2019) | click here |
| House of Commons: Evidence based early years interventions (2017-19) | click here |
| Ellis et al (2017) A New Framework for Addressing ACEs and Community Experiences | click here |
| Early Intervention Foundation: The cost of late intervention in NI research (2018) | click here |
| Institute of Education (2019) - What helps to support people affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences? A review of evidence | click here |
| Trauma Specific Literature | |
| Parental Mental Health: So your think your mum or dad has a mental illness? Child version | click here |
| Parental Mental Health: So you think your mum or dad has a mental illness? Teenager version | click here |
| Chrysalis Partnership - Connections: Helping our Children Feel Connected | click here |
| Chrysalis Partnership - Bouncing Back: Building Resilience in Young People | click here |
| Stress, Trauma and Your Brain: Part One | click here |
| Stress, Trauma and Your Brain: Ideas for Healing | click here |
| Alcohol and You NI: Parents and Alcohol | click here |
| Trauma Informed Care in the Homelessness Sector - Homeless Link | click here |
| Lasher et al (2017) Implementation of Trauma Informed Care in a Housing First Model for Intimate Partner Violence | click here |
| Homeless Hub Canada - A Trauma Informed Practice Guide & TIP Organisational Checklist | click here |
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Bellis et al (2019) - Life course health consequences and associated annual costs of adverse childhood experiences across Europe and North America: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
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| Universal Intercept Models | |
| Applying the Sequential Intercept Model to the NI Context (Full Report) | click here |
| Applying the Sequential Intercept Model to the NI Context (Summary Report) | click here |
| Training Tools & Information | |
| NI ACE Animation | click here |
| Barnardo's NI Life Changers Video | click here |
| ACE / Trauma Informed Practice Information Leaflet | click here |
| Help me make sense of the world - brain development leaflet (English) | click here |
| Help me make sense of the world - brain development leaflet (Irish) | click here |
| Steps to Cope with Stress booklet | click here |
| Support for Children and Young People | |
| A Young Persons Guide to Stress and Resilience Video | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (English) | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (Irish) | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (Polish) | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (Arabic) | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (Romanian) | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (Luthianian) | click here |
| A Young Person's Guide to Stress and Resilence Leaflet (Portuguese) | click here |
| Telephone and Web Support for Young People | click here |
| Trauma Informed Physical Spaces | |
| Trauma Informed Care and the evidence - Dr Suzanne Mooney, Queens University Belfast | click here |
| Trauma Informed Physical Spaces - Professor Mandy Davis, Trauma Informed Oregon | click here |
| EITP Trauma Informed Practice Project Report Cards | |
| Trauma Informed Practice Project Report Card 1 - April-June 2019 | click here |
| Trauma Informed Practice Project Report Card 2 - July - October 2019 | click here |