Trauma-Informed Care

Trauma-informed care involves adjustment of service delivery in order to accommodate the challenges faced by clients due to intimate partner violence, household dysfunction, and abuse connected with, for example, sexual and gender identity, gender, and race. Traumas can manifest physically, mentally, and/or behaviorally and can be addressed by services that help enhance engagement in HIV care.

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Best Practices and Emerging Models

Compendium of Evidence-informed Approaches to Improving Health Outcomes for People Living with HIV
Center for Innovation and Engagement
April 2022
Collection of implementation guides on evidence-informed best practices in HIV care delivery.
Bi-directional Lessons Learned Along the HIV Treatment Cascade Between the RWHAP and PEPFAR
HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
January 2020
Examination of potential areas for bi-directional sharing between the U.S. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Seeking Safety: E2i Toolkit
Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i)
Seeking Safety is an evidence-based coping skills intervention that helps people attain safety from trauma and/or addiction.
Tailored Motivational Interviewing
Center for Innovation and Engagement
Description of a communication-centered approach to service delivery that provides a compassionate and supportive environment to promote intrinsic behavior change among youth 16 to 29 with newly diagnosed HIV.
TIA/CHANGE: E2i Toolkit
Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i)
TIA/CHANGE is an evidence-informed and resilience-focused intervention that provides guidance and structure for becoming a trauma-informed HIV service organization.

Resources

A Guide to Support Individuals with HIV/Hepatitis C in Substance Use Service Settings
Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder
July 2023
Guide on how to coordinate HIV/HCV treatment with substance use treatment and recovery.
Trauma-Informed Approaches Toolkit
NASTAD
December 2022
Review of the basics of trauma and modules on trauma-informed approaches in the delivery of HIV care.
A Health Systems Approach to Trauma-Informed Care
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Health Partners
Futures Without Violence, HRSA
May 2017
Website-based toolkit on ways for agencies to establish partnerships to address intimate partner violence (IPV).

Webinars and Training

TAP-in EHE Webinar Series
Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in)
October 2021
Recordings of the TAP-in webinars on topics critical to the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative.
At the Intersection of SUD, HIV and COVID-19: Why Trauma Informed Care Matters
Effective Approaches to Engaging HIV-positive Homeless Populations
HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
September 2018
Highlight of two programs that successfully engaged in HIV care clients who are hard-to-reach and serve via delivery of HIV primary care, behavioral health, and housing.
Trauma-informed Care at AIDS Service Organizations
National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
May 2017
Review of research on the causes of higher trauma prevalence among People with HIV. The relationship of trauma symptoms to decreased engagement in HIV services, and best practices in trauma-informed care.

Conference Presentations

The Relationship Between Community and Interpersonal Violence, and HIV Prevalence Among Black women in Dallas, Texas

Rutgers, The State University of NJ

Presenters:

Kimberly Deas, Thomas Hunt, Terri Lassiter, Shankar Srinivasan