Becoming Healing-Centered: Organizations

Justice

• Collaborating for Successful Reentry: A Practical Guide to Support Justice-Involved Young People Returning to the Community, 2019
  This guide from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice is a resource to help practitioners reform how youth reenter society and connect with their community.
   
• Eight Principles to Transform Care for Young People in the Justice System, 2019
  This issue brief identifies eight principles that every juvenile justice system should embrace to transform care for youth in custody. These principles are designed to help all youth realize their potential — regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, neighborhood or personal history. A short video on the topic can be found HERE.
   
• Family Court Tool Kit: Trauma and Child Development, 2022
  This tool kit from Florida Courts contains compelling information, rooted in science, which aids in determining children's needs based on developmental milestones and the impact of trauma. The information and practices in this tool kit will improve judicial decision making and improve outcomes for children. 
   
• GAINS Center Trauma Training for Criminal Justice Professionals (SAMHSA)
  The GAINS Center has developed training for criminal justice professionals to raise awareness about trauma and its effects. “How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Responses” is a one-day training for criminal justice professionals to:
  • Increase understanding and awareness of the impact of trauma
  • Develop trauma-informed responses
  • Provide strategies for developing and implementing trauma-informed policies

This highly interactive training is specifically tailored to community-based criminal justice professionals, including police officers, community corrections personnel, and court personnel. Search for a trainer in your area or contact the GAINS Center about holding a training.

• The Legislative Primer Series on Front-End Justice: Young Adults in the Justice System, 2019
  This report is part of a series that explores policies that impact the front end of the criminal justice system. Each brief looks at who is entering the “front door” of the criminal justice system and gives examples of legislation, national initiatives, best practices, promising programs, and key research on timely issues. The series provides legislatures with the tools they need to consider cost-effective policies that protect public safety.
   
• A Roadmap for Trauma-Informed Organizations by Resilient Georgia
  ​The implementation of a trauma-informed approach is an ongoing organizational paradigm shift. Trainings on this website are divided into Trauma Aware, Trauma, Sensitive, Trauma Responsive, and Trauma Informed for the following sectors: first responders, healthcare providers, faith-based, juvenile justice, community, early childhood & education, youth-serving organizations, public health/social services, youth, school, parents & caregivers, and business.
   
• Trauma-informed Courts by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
  Summarizes NCJFCJ's work to support trauma-informed courts. 
   
• Trauma video by Judge Tepper of Florida Courts, 2019