There is a growing call for arts-health and community arts professionals to work in ‘trauma informed ways’ to prevent re-traumatisation and promote healing. This presentation reports on an interdisciplinary scoping review of existing literature that deal with trauma aware and informed practice and its applications in arts-health and community arts. Trauma informed practice does not seek to target or treat trauma but, rather, seeks to provide a safer and more informed space for people who experience post-traumatic stress conditions and symptoms to engage in facilitated arts activities. We particularly examined the extent to which existing literature acknowledges the presence of oppression-related collective trauma – such as racial trauma – and offers appropriate creative, anti-oppressive, and trauma aware practice approaches. Although no specific guidelines for trauma aware practice in arts-health or community arts were found, we consolidate our findings in this presentation to offer interim principles, values, and activities for trauma aware and informed practice in arts-health and community arts.