If you're here, it's likely because you attended a trauma-informed care (TIC) training with me through Rapha Care LLC. This blog will provide you with resources to continue your TIC learning beyond the 1-hour webinar with me. If you end up using any of these resources, please let me know with a comment on this blog or through an email message. I would love to share your experience as further confirmation of the resource's usefulness.
The "Three E's" and the 6 Principles of TIC: During the webinar, I walked attendees through SAMHSA's "Three E's" and the six principles of TIC. This resource will go into both topics in greater detail. Check them out as you continue to tailor your TIC approach to the experiences of people living with HIV.
Trauma-Informed Care 101: Basics of Trauma and the TIC Framework: This webinar is a great tool for refreshing your knowledge and understanding of trauma and how it presents in different people. I also recommend watching this webinar to ensure your TIC model aligns with the established framework.
Transformation Through Trauma: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Survive Injuries of Inequality: I highly encourage all TIC practitioners to watch this lecture by Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes of the University of Michigan. Dr. Watkins uses her book, Remaking A Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, as a reference and model for exploring how women living with HIV (WLWH) transform their lives following experiences of inequality. You can take the information from this lecture to support HIV patients with intersectional identities that have led to injuries of inequality and marginalization.
Caring for Women Living with HIV: Women-Centred HIV Care: Although this resource was created in Canada, it provides important information for TIC clinicians who want to deliver more tailored treatment to WLWH.
Trauma-Informed Approach: Improving Care for People Living with HIV Curriculum Trainer’s Manual: While you are now certified as a TIC trainer, it never hurts to have a manual or resource available that you can refer to when trying to identify more effective ways to care for your HIV patients. This manual is a great option because it was created by SAMHSA and aligns well with their other TIC tools and resources.
Cultural Humility & Reducing Stigma and Discrimination | Provider Handbook: As we identified in the training, lack of cultural sensitivity in TIC delivery can result in minimal to no improvements in the health and engagement in treatment of people living with HIV (PLWH). This handbook can help TIC providers understand effective ways to build stronger connections to HIV patients from different cultural backgrounds.
National HIV Curriculum: The National HIV Curriculum is led by the University of Washington and was developed to provide HIV care providers with evidence-based tools and learning to provide high-quality treatment to PLWH. You should refer back to this curriculum whenever you need to confirm methods for reducing the spread of HIV amongst patients in your care.
Trauma and HIV: Created by the Well Project, this website is another great refresher for TIC practitioners who want to provide their HIV patients with examples of how others have overcome their traumatic pasts. For many PLWH, it can be difficult to see a future that is not defined by their disease. This resource can be shared with patients or used to drive conversations about the patient's future state after addressing and working to overcome their traumatic experiences through a TIC model of treatment.
From trauma to transmission: exploring the intersection of adversity, substance use, and HIV risk in women’s life histories: This study is a great resource for TIC practitioners working with HIV populations because it covers the various ways trauma across the lifespan can increase health risks for women with HIV. Care providers can also use this information to further improve their approach to TIC with WLWH.
PTSD among people living with HIV/AIDS: While this resource will cover much of what many of you already know about PTSD among PLWH, it offers an impressive section with tips on how to effectively screen HIV patients for experiences of trauma or the current presence of PTSD.
Rural HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Toolkit: This toolkit provides tons of resources for treating PLWH. What makes it especially unique is its focus on rural populations with HIV. Knowledge of the unique cultural and social experiences of having HIV in rural locations will be beneficial to TIC practitioners.
Evaluation: This last resource is especially important because we must always assess the effectiveness of the treatment we deliver to patients and clients. I recommend referring to this tool since it is designed for clinicians working with HIV populations.
Thank you for learning and continuing your TIC educational journey with me. I hope these resources will be useful to you and that they provide the knowledge and information you need to deliver quality TIC to Black WLWH.
Please reach out whenever my services could be of assistance to you.
References
AETC Southeast. (n.d.). Cultural humility & reducing stigma and discrimination | provider handbook. https://www.seaetc.com/cultural-humility-reducing-stigma-and-discrimination-provider-handbook/
Center for Effective Practice. (2020). Caring for women living with HIV: Women-centred HIV care. https://cep.health/media/uploaded/CEP_HIVTool_Clinician_Nov24.pdf
National HIV Curriculum. (n.d.). HIV course modules. https://www.hiv.uw.edu/
Ontario HIV Treatment Network. (2014). Rapid response: Posttraumatic stress disorders among people living with HIV/AIDS. Rapid Response Service. https://www.ohtn.on.ca/rapid-response-91-ptsd-among-people-living-with-hivaids-2/
Relias. (n.d.). Trauma-informed care 101: Basics of trauma and the TIC framework. https://www.relias.com/resource/basics-of-trauma-informed-care-framework
Rural Health Information Hub. (2022, April 8). Rural HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment toolkit. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/hiv-aids
SAMHSA. (2018). Trauma-informed approach: Improving care for people living with HIV curriculum trainer’s manual. https://www.nasmhpd.org/sites/default/files/NCTIC_TIA_TrainersManual_HIV%20Final2.pdf
SAMHSA. (2014). SAMHSA’s concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach. https://ncsacw.acf.hhs.gov/userfiles/files/SAMHSA_Trauma.pdf
TargetHIV. (n.d.). Evaluation. https://targethiv.org/library/topics/evaluation
The Well Project. (2024, February 5). Trauma and HIV. https://www.thewellproject.org/hiv-information/trauma-and-hiv
UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix. (2021, October 14). Transformation through trauma: How women living with HIV/AIDS survive injuries of inequality. https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/transformation-through-trauma-how-women-living-with-hiv-aids-survive-injuries-of-inequality/
West, N.S., Kussaga, F., Rittenhouse, A., Duroseau, B., Knight, D., Mbwambo, J., Likindikoki, S., & Saleem, H. T. (2023). From trauma to transmission: exploring the intersection of adversity, substance use, and HIV risk in women’s life histories. International Journey of Equity in Health 22 (174). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-01994-4
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