In collaboration with Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation
This report charts TMWF’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.
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by Dheeshana S. Jayasundara, Ph.D., Hind El-Jarrah, Ph.D., Chic Dabby, & Durdana Ahmed
Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation & API-GBV
January 2020