Welcome to the Long-Term Care Toolkit

This toolkit is part of a research project that focuses on building psychological safety in long term care and strengthening equity and trauma informed organizational capacity. Our team has developed a multi-level, intersectional inventory of high-quality resources.

Whether you’re a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, registered practical nurse, personal support worker, trainee, healthcare leader/manager/supervisor, director, administrator or HR specialist in long term care, there is something here for you.

Upon entering the site, you can choose resources based on the focus of the intervention, sector, format, or location. We want to create a community of support for long term care so if you try a resource and like it, feel free to click on the logo and leave a comment.

Changing Life, Changing Tomorrow: Implementing Antiracism Policy in Nursing

The keynote offers practical strategies and actionable steps for healthcare professionals to promote an inclusive and equitable workplace. The speaker discusses the significance of anti-racism policies, provides practical examples, and offers guidance on overcoming challenges in different nursing contexts.

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Supporting Staff When A Client Dies

The document describes how grief manifests in employees and how to recognize it. It contains various resources on how to support employees after a death, what needs to be done afterwards, how to react when a client passes away, and how to provide clients with emotional support.

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Death is Part of the Job: A Model of Staff Grief in Long-Term Care

This video demonstrates a peer-led debriefing intervention (INNPUT) for LTC home staff. Important knowledge about grief and how to build a culture where it is okay to talk about grief are included in the model. It offers a sustainable and user-friendly strategy to support front-line employees.

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Peer Led Debriefing Toolkit: Guidelines for Promoting Effective Grief Support Among Front Line Staff

The peer-led debriefing toolkit is intended as a practice and training resource that can be incorporated into the palliative care program of a long-term care home. It covers strategies for overcoming the effects of disenfranchised grief and illustrates how LTC staff can manage their emotions and stressors related to the resident’s death.

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Working with Family Caregivers in LTC

This document highlights the components of effective communication and what it entails for long-term care staff to work in the best interests of the residents. Open and honest communication, how to answer family inquiries, and building connections with families are among the issues covered.

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Relational Approach’ Fosters Community Between Families and Team Members

The relational approach is a strategic initiative that encompasses training, coaching, education, and interactive workshops. This approach empowers care teams to manage family expectations, navigate emotional conflicts, and build the trust needed for meaningful partnerships to support families going through a difficult time.

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Trauma - Informed Care Implementation Resource Centre

The website is part of Center for Health Care Strategies, which is based in the United States, and provides various resources for trauma-informed care. The resources range from learning about trauma-informed care, how to implement it in the workplace with relevance to leaders, staff, and patients, and policy considerations.

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Healthcare Compassion Fatigue

This video talks about how compassion fatigue is a risk to anyone exposed to the stress of trauma, especially frontline workers. Learn the signs and symptoms of caregiver burnout and how to build resilience.

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Quick TIC Toolkit

These resources will not only equip people to care for themselves, but will also train individuals in the basics of trauma-informed care to more effectively support those who have experienced the effects of trauma. This toolkit is set out in differing levels for differing individual needs and capabilities at this time.

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Trauma Review Exercise

Creating safe and welcoming spaces reduces potential harm for everyone, especially those most likely to feel unwelcome and unsafe. This exercise will help you ‘walk through’ the spaces where you provide care. The goal is to think about how these spaces feel for service users.

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Trauma and Violence Informed Care & Provider Well Being

This document provides key concepts related to understanding and assessing provider well-being, with a focus on organizational strategies, including how leaders can support staff in self-care strategies.

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Trauma - Informed Practice: A Toolkit for Scotland

This Trauma Informed Practice Toolkit has been developed to further support that ambition by providing our workforce with clear, tangible examples of where trauma informed practice has been successfully embedded across different sectors of the workforce and how that learning can be applied in a range of contexts

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Trauma Informed Care Toolkit

A comprehensive resource designed to empower nursing homes in fostering well-being and resilience among residents and staff. The toolkit is dedicated to assisting nursing facility administrators and their teams on their path towards delivering person-centered, trauma-informed care.

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Implementing Trauma - Informed Care: A Guidebook

This guidebook focuses on supporting nursing homes and other long term care facilities for older adults on how to implement trauma-informed practices and policies.

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Trauma and Violence - Informed Approaches to Policy and Practice

Trauma and violence-informed approaches require fundamental changes in how practitioners engage with people, how organizations function and how systems are designed. This website outlines four key principles and sample implementation strategies for service providers and organizations.

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Trauma-Informed Toolkit

This toolkit aims to provide knowledge to service providers working with adults who have experienced or been affected by trauma. It will also help service providers and organizations to work from a trauma-informed perspective and develop trauma-informed relationships that cultivate safety, trust and compassion.

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