The South Southwest MHTTC collaborated with the Texas Association of Community Health Centers from July – November 2023 to host a Trauma Informed Care Series: Knowledge & Strategies for Health and Hope. Traumatic experiences have consistently been correlated with negative health outcomes across an individual’s life span, including up to a 20-year reduction in life expectancy and a 30-40% increase in the incidence of substance use.
Trauma Informed Care (TIC) is an evidence-based framework particularly suited to collaboratively identify risk factors to care, such as medication access and use, therapeutic engagement, and non-medical resource needs and navigation.
These resources are applicable to all providers (Medical, Dental, Behavioral Health, and SUD Treatment Clinicians) and all staff (direct-care, front-line, operations, administration, and leadership).
