This report charts the Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation’s process of becoming a trauma-informed agency which included learning about types of trauma and trauma-informed care, assessing existing culturally sensitive practices that enhanced trauma-informed care and identifying ones that need to be added, training staff, and working with researchers to document and build a body of evidence-based practice — all the while staying survivor-centered.
Recommended Citation: Jayasundara, D., El-Jarrah, H., Dabby, C., and Ahmed, D. (2020). From the Roots of Trauma to the Flowering of Trauma-Informed Care. Plano Texas: Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation; Oakland California: Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence