Incorporating trauma informed principles and practices into healthcare delivery is essential for improving health. And, preventing or mitiga

Measurement is a key driver of turning best practices into common practices. We apply this insight to the work of health systems to embed best practices on trauma-informed care in their service delivery, organizational policies, and infrastructure design. Health care systems sometimes struggle to maintain engagement in this work because measurement strategies focus on improvements to patient outcomes and quality of care, which can require long lead times to measure. Focusing

As we wrote last week, trauma-informed care in health care delivery settings is most effective when systems move beyond the “one-day training for employees” approach and have widespread organizational culture change to support it. Policy changes within health systems are instrumental in bringing trauma-informed care practices to the forefront. A growing body of research within implementation science demonstrates that organizational culture, organizational climate, leadershi

Research on the powerful effect of trauma on health and child development continues to build, collectively describing a foundational element of pediatric science: traumatic childhood experiences – even in infancy – have a profound effect on the developing architecture of the brain, and on a child’s long-term health. Research tells us that experiencing trauma during childhood is pervasive: more than two-thirds of children under the age of sixteen have experienced a traumatic e