Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma (Web Edition)
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Welcome to our Web Edition of Real Tools: Responding to Multi-Abuse Trauma – A Tool Kit to Help Advocates and Community Partners Better Serve People with Multiple Issues
The manual, supported by a grant from the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, was a three-year effort on the part of ANDVSA Training Project Director Patricia J. Bland and her co-author Debi S. Edmund. Copies of the print edition of the manual were distributed to member programs following its publication in 2011 and now the online version is here for you to use!
The authors hope these materials will be widely used for training advocates and other service providers, creating support groups for individuals coping with multi-abuse trauma issues, and educating and advocating in the community. Therefore, our Web Edition was created with maximum user-friendliness in mind. Chapters from our original print version appear below. Click on each chapter to get a downloadable copy of the full chapter, complete with citations and references, an abbreviated version of the full chapter, or a copy of a chapter sub-section complete with citations and references.
This project was supported by 2007-MU-AX-0082 and 2010 MU-AX-0002 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Overall Manual Format and Components
A Word About Language
About Copyright
About_The_Authors
About Multi Abuse Trauma (Full chapter)
Multiple Layers of Trauma (Full chapter)
- SHORTER VERSION Multiple Layers of Trauma
- CAPSULE VERSION Multiple Layers of Trauma
- Does Interpersonal Violence Cause CoOccurring Issues
- Trauma And CoOccuring Issues
- Safety Issues
- Another Layer of Trauma
- Barriers to Service
- Challenges for Providers
- Consequences When CoOccurring Issues Are Not Addressed
- Trauma from the Social Service System
How Should Advocates Respond (Full chapter)
- SHORTER VERSION: How Should Advocates Respond
- Creating a welcoming environment
- Trust Isn’t Always Easy
- Gaining trust
- Discussing CoOccurring Issues
- What does safety mean
- Empowering survivors
- What helped us feel empowered
- Using community support groups
- Honoring diversity
- Handling spiritual concerns
- To label or not to label
- Defining success
- Survivors share what is success
- How to avoid retraumatizing the people we serve
- Things to think about as we develop patience and empathy
- SAFE and SISTR
A Closer Look at Co-Occurring Issues (Full chapter)
- A Closer Look at Co-Occurring Issues
- Complex trauma
- Substance Use Disorders
- Mental Health Concerns
- Disabilities/ Differing Abilities
- Societal Abuse and Oppression
- Poverty
- Homelessness
- Sex trafficking
- Incarceration
Working with Other Providers (Full Chapter)
- Working with Other Providers (Shorter version)
- Advantages of working with other providers
- Barriers to cooperation among providers
- Creating alliances
- Types of providers their philosophies and priorities, A Word about Language
Self Care and a Healthy Workplace (Full Chapter)
- Self Care and a Healthy Workplace (Shorter version)
- Impact of Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
- Risk Factors for Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
- Help for Helpers
- Organizational factors leading to vicarious trauma or burnout
- Creating a Healthy Workplace
- Self Care Tips for Staff, What we do to take care of ourselves
Advocate Tool Kit
Assessing Needs (Full chapter)
- Assessing Needs (Shorter version)
- Reducing Intake Trauma
- Performing a Needs Assessment
- How Do We Ask Those Sticky Questions?
- FollowUp Questions to Enhance Service Provision for All
- Where Can I Get Help?
- Emotional Well-Being: Sample Questions to Ensure Better Accommodation
- CAGE Questions
- The 4 Ps
Training Providers (Full chapter)
- Training Providers (Shorter version)
- Training on a Budget
- Guidelines for Organizing and Conducting Training Sessions
- Preparation for trainings and presentations
- Visual aids
- Engaging your audience
- Sample Training Topics and Handouts
- Sample Training Logistics Guide
- Training Logistics Worksheet
Community Education and Activism (Full chapter)
- Community Education and Activism (shorter version)
- What is Social Activism Exactly?
- The Benefits of Social Activism
- Safe Ways for Survivors to Work for Change
- Packaging Your Message
- Getting Press Coverage
- Organizing the Community
- Using Social Media to Promote Your Message
- Lobbying Elected Officials
- The Fine Art of Letter Writing
Organizing Support Groups (Full chapter)
- Confidentiality
- Promoting easy access to the group
- General tips
- A group survivors look forward to
- Stage 2 groups
- General goals
- Overall format for the groups
- Sample Topics for Educational Component and Suggested Handouts
The Handouts
- About Our Handouts
- Multiple_Layers_of_Trauma
- Trauma: The Common_Denominator
- Multi Abuse Trauma Graphic
- 1+1 = 10 Tons of Trouble
- Other Issues: What Else Impacts Safety and Sobriety?
- Ten Tons of Trouble Instructions
- Examples of Abuse
- Manifestations of Violence
- Women Abuse/Substance Abuse: What is the relationship?
- Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Substance Abuse
- Sorting Out Messages
- Merry go rounds of addiction and violence
- Instructions for the Merry Go Round Exercises
- Stages of Addiction, Stages of Untreated Trauma
- Ending Isolation: Reducing Anxiety Through Connection
- Safety at Support Group Meetings
- Etiquette in Groups
- Using 12 step groups
- Community Peer Support Groups
- Trust isn’t always easy
- Gaining trust
- Constructive Criticism
- Legitimate vs. Abusive Uses of authority
- SKIT Mary has all kinds of troubles
- SKIT Instructions
- To_label_or_not_to_label?
- Worksheet: Where_Can_I_Get_Help?
- We Are Our Own Best Advocates
- Personalized Safety Plan
- Mini Safety Sobriety Wellness plan
- Instructions for Mini Safety Plan
- What_Does_Safety_Mean?
- Children exposed to Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
- Safety Planning Interventions for Children
- Can one person make a difference
- Writing a letter that gets attention
- Women Talk About Substance Abuse and Violence
Power and Control Wheels
- About the Power and Control Wheels
- Power and Control Wheel
- Equality Wheel
- Abuse of children
- Nurturing Children
- Children Coping with Family Violence Wheel
- Power and Control Model For Women’s Substance Abuse
- Mental Health System Power and Control: Escalating Danger
- Mental Health System Power and Control: Empowerment
- Medical Power and Control
- People with Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Power and Control Disability Abuse Wheel
- People with Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Equality Wheel
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans: Power and Control Wheel
- Immigrant Power and Control Wheel
- Power and Control Wheel for Women Involved in Street Prostitution
- Violence Against Native Women: Battering
- Bullying Power and Control Wheel
- Power and Control in Dating Relationships
- Abuses Endured By A Woman During her Life Cycle
- Natural Life Supporting Power
- Continuum of Caring: Community-Based Resources for Battered Women
- Ideal Institutional Response
- Advocacy Wheel
- Successful Collaboration Wheel
- Coordinated Community Action Model
- Community Accountability Wheel
- Faith Community Wheel
- Judicial Responses that Empower Battered Women
- Domestic Violence Violence: A Cross-Cutting Issue for Social Workers
- Abusive Power within Domestic Violence Shelter
Appendices
Appendix: Definitions
Appendix: Additional Resources
Appendix: References
About the Authors
Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
ANDVSA Member Programs
Other Publications
Trauma Web Sites
Community Support Groups
Organizations