Original ACEs study

Hi, Ruben: Trauma-informed care came out of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — https://store.samhsa.gov/

Here's their overview of trauma-informed care: https://store.samhsa.gov/produ...oach/SMA14-4884.html

Here's a link to their trauma publications: https://store.samhsa.gov/issue...ons-disorders/trauma

SAMHSA began developing a trauma-informed approach in the 1980s, before the ACE Study was published, when the mental health and addiction communities thought there was no relation between mental illness and addiction (well....people who were addicted and mentally ill did; service providers didn't).

@Andrea Blanch is a good resource for how the trauma-informed was developed.

This is excellent information. Thank you so much! I look forward to opportunities to contribute as well.

Hi, Ruben!  Dr. Bruce Perry's work on the impact of abuse and neglect on the developing brain was huge driver of work being done in early childhood education and child welfare in the 90s before the ACEs study was published.  Ghosts from the Nursery by Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley was also very influential in Child Welfare during that time.  These resources may help in your work as well.

Good luck!

Hi Rueben,  I believe the first use of the term trauma informed care was by Roger Fallot and Maxine Harris in their book 

Using Trauma Theory to Design Service Systems: New Directions for Mental Health Services which was published in 2001.  Other early adopters include Sandra Bloom and Bruce Perry already mentioned.

Ruben:

Two possible resources for you in addition to all the responses you've already been getting.

1. Vital Village and Dr. Jarrett. She was the first person I heard speak about trauma-informed frameworks rather than trauma-informed care (and why that matter). 

2. Benchmarks PFE in NC has a community on ACEs Connection, has done lots of research (via Dr. Katie Rosanbaum and others), and works closely with the child welfare system (and others). They may be a resource. She was interviewed for this piece.

Cissy