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Trauma-Informed Care Manual

By understanding trauma as a normal response to an abnormal experience and learning effective ways to support survivors in recovering from their trauma, we can further improve and enhance the services we provide and the care we offer. The manual also outlines 16 best practices to incorporate into your organization and also offers detailed protocols on providing trauma-informed services such as answering hotline calls, doing intakes and exit interviews, facilitating support groups, safety planning (including emotional safety planning), and providing parenting support to survivors. Finally, we include information on vicarious trauma and how to make sure that advocates are focusing on the important issue of self-care. The appendices in this manual include an extremely helpful trauma-informed checklist developed by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health, resources, a comparison between the trauma-informed care model and the empowerment model used by most domestic violence programs, suggested best practices for child survivors of domestic violence, and a case study to help individuals and programs identify ways to become more trauma-informed.

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The purpose of Prevention Community of Practice is broad oversight of OHMAN, including but not necessarily limited to:

  • Vision
  • Infrastructure
  • Funding priorities
  • Policy discussions and agenda setting (both internal to the organization and in regard to emerging issues in the movement)
  • Strategic planning

Responsibilities of the OHMAN Steering Committee include:

  • Regularly participate in Steering Committee-related conference calls.
  • Regularly participate in OHMAN general meetings and events.
  • Work on projects and serve on committees that are needed to ensure the success of OHMAN as an efficient, community-oriented network.
  • Policy discussions and agenda setting (both internal to the organization and regarding emerging issues in the movement)
  • Assist with the development and monitoring of OHMAN goals, objectives, and strategic plan.
  • Allow your name, image, and/or likeness to appear in OHMAN publications and other media statements.
  • Participate with workgroups charged by the Steering Committee

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