Hi Rick
Everyone here has offered some awesome readings that are right in line with what I was asking. Such a fabulous response - I am so impressed.
You may have seen in an earlier post that we use the Sanctuary model as a guiding philosophy and we train yearly in therapeutic crisis intervention techniques. Both of these are trauma informed models and work really well together. It has been a long process that has seen a great deal of success and a real turn around for our department. In 2008 when I first began with CPFS (Child Protection and Family Support - State Govt department) we had a hostel system that housed a minimum of 8 young people with 2 - 3 staff on each shift. The facilitites were purpose built and resembled more of a prison than a home and we expected young people to feel safe there... Not very effective. As a staff memeber it was like walking into a war zone and there was a real 'us and them' attitude from both the kids and staff. Shortly after I started we changed from 8 bed hostels to 4 bed group homes. More thought was put into placing particular children together to minimise issues of dynamics and the department began a rigorous staff training regime - Therapeutic Crisis Intervention. This was taken on by staff quite well as it was really effective. Then about 4 years ago the Dept took on the Sanctuary model. Staff resisted this - probably a number of reasons... Firstly they were still getting used to TCI and felt we didn't need anything else, but mostly because it was introduced quite rapidly and there really wasn't a great deal of training for staff to understand the fundamentals of the model. This was of course due to budget constraints. However, as a Manager, I have supported Sanctuary and endeavoured to provide significant training for my staff in the model and slowly I have made some progress.
So my search for documents pertaining to the use of consequences is an effort to provide 'evidence' to my staff so they realsie that it's not just me harping on about using trauma-informed practices, it is actually a world-wide movement and we best get on board now - for our benefit as well as the vulnerable young people with whom we work.
Hope this has been helpful for you too.
Cheers
:)