Trauma-informed care is not exclusive to patient-facing staff. We know that children, families, and healthcare team members have faced events in their past or have current stressors. Every child, family and healthcare team member deserves emotionally safe, equitable trauma-informed treatment. These events can affect everything – how we feel, how we cope, how we approach and respond to medical care and how we heal.
Incorporating the science of trauma allows us to address how to best take care of each other and ourselves through increased awareness, sensitivity, and responsiveness to trauma. Our vision is that Children’s Mercy will be an equity centered, emotionally safe, and trauma-informed health care system.
Let's work together to promote a culture of emotional safety, empowerment, and healing throughout Children's Mercy. The Library Services team worked with Patty Davis and the Trauma-Informed Care Team to curate this collection of resources for everyone to learn more about trauma informed care. Click the resources on the left of this page to explore.