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Verified PTSD and trauma organizations¶
Last accessed: 2026-10-16 (selected sources re-checked; earlier audit retained below)
| Organization | Region / population | Verified role | URL | Scope caution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA National Center for PTSD | USA; veterans and public/professionals | Education, assessment/treatment resources, research translation | https://www.ptsd.va.gov/ | Government/clinical resource; veteran evidence prominent |
| International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies | International; professionals and public | Treatment guideline and public clinical resources | https://istss.org/clinical-resources/trauma-treatment/ | Professional society, not a crisis service |
| PTSD UK | UK; trauma-agnostic | Awareness and public education for PTSD/CPTSD | https://www.ptsduk.org/ | Charity information; not a diagnostic authority |
| Combat Stress | UK; veterans and families | Specialist veteran mental-health treatment and support | https://combatstress.org.uk/ | Military-specific; explicitly not an emergency service |
| Blue Knot Foundation | Australia; complex-trauma survivors/supporters | Information, counselling/referral, training and advocacy | https://blueknot.org.au/ | Complex-trauma scope is broader than diagnosed PTSD |
| Phoenix Australia | Australia; community, veterans, responders, practitioners | Research, education, guidelines and clinical resources | https://www.phoenixaustralia.org/ | Centre of excellence, not solely patient-led advocacy |
| National Child Traumatic Stress Network | USA; children, families, providers | Child-trauma resources, training and service network | https://www.nctsn.org/ | Child trauma is broader than pediatric PTSD |
| PTSD Association of Canada | Canada; people with PTSD and supporters | Education, awareness, coping resources and advocacy | https://www.ptsdassociation.com/ | Organization materials are not trial evidence |
| Government of Canada trauma/PTSD portal | Canada; public | Public health information and support directories | https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/topics/mental-health-wellness/post-traumatic-stress-disorder.html | Government portal, not a patient organization |
Verification notes¶
- Every URL above was fetched or search-result verified on 2026-09-02 by the build session.
- Audit re-check, 2026-09-02. Seven of the nine URLs returned HTTP 200 with a matching page title on independent re-fetch: ptsd.va.gov ("PTSD: National Center for PTSD Home"), istss.org/clinical-resources/trauma-treatment ("Trauma Treatment | International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies"), ptsduk.org ("PTSD UK"), blueknot.org.au ("Blue Knot Foundation"), phoenixaustralia.org ("Home - Phoenix Australia"), nctsn.org ("The National Child Traumatic Stress Network") and ptsdassociation.com ("PTSD Association of Canada"). Two could not be re-fetched from this session's network: combatstress.org.uk returned HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare interstitial, and the canada.ca PTSD portal failed at the HTTP/2 layer. Both remain listed as recorded by the build session; neither non-response is evidence that the resource has changed or gone.
- The ISTSS trauma-treatment page renders its content client-side, so the guideline counts quoted in
../guidelines/REGISTRY.mdcould not be read from the raw HTML on re-check; the VA/DoD guideline is instead anchored to its PubMed-indexed synopsis (PMID 38408360). - PTSD UK describes itself as trauma-agnostic; Combat Stress is explicitly veteran-specific.
- Blue Knot’s focus is complex trauma, which overlaps but is not equivalent to ICD-11 CPTSD.
- NCTSN covers child traumatic stress broadly; its resources must not be cited as pediatric PTSD prevalence.
- Organization self-descriptions establish mission and services, not effectiveness.
- Access follow-up, 2026-10-16. Combat Stress and the Government of Canada trauma/PTSD portal were both retrieved successfully through the web reader, resolving the earlier access failures. Combat Stress's public homepage and self-help directory identify veteran/family support; Canada's portal provides PTSD information and support links. Access success verifies those resources, not a new treatment outcome (Combat Stress — "Combat Stress", https://combatstress.org.uk/; Government of Canada — "Trauma and PTSD", https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/topics/mental-health-wellness/post-traumatic-stress-disorder.html; accessed 2026-10-16).