This tool was published by the Cross-Over Youth Project.

HERE’S HOW THE AUTHORS DESCRIBE THIS TOOL:

Youth survivors of pervasive and/or complex trauma experience a profoundly diverse range of symptoms, which are not captured in the current definition of PTSD (Kolk, 2005). The risk for young people who are healing from treatment is that well-intentioned interventions by police officers and other service providers can lead to the re-traumatization of young people rather than rehabilitation. To help alleviate this problem, it is important to change the mindset and culture around youth that have experienced trauma. Only when a trauma-informed practice is the default setting can it be assured that the further re-traumatization of youth with complex histories of trauma won’t be an unfortunate by-product of a system that over-works police officers.