Community Trauma Toolkit

Courtesy of the Office for Mental Health and Wellbeing | ACT Health | ACT Government

The community trauma toolkit contains evidence based resources to help and support adults and children before, during, and after a disaster or traumatic event. It provides information and resources about some of the impacts of disaster and how you can help lessen these impacts.

The information in this Toolkit is grouped into the timeframes surrounding a natural disaster or traumatic event: preparedness; immediate; short-term recovery; and long-term recovery. The resources are tailored to the various audience including:

• Parents and caregivers
• General Practitioners
• Educators
• Community leaders
• First Responders, and
• Health and Social workforces.

The toolkit was developed by ANU’s Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma Grief and Loss Network (ACATGLN) for the Emerging Minds collaboration using funding from the Commonwealth government.

ACATGLN is part of the ANU Medical School and sits within the Academic Unit of General Practice and is full of simple practical evidence based advice and can be accessed for free.