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Welcome to day 4 of National Safeguarding Adults Week 2023 which will explore how to take a Trauma Informed Approach with safeguarding adults.
Trauma-informed approaches have become increasingly cited in policy and adopted in practice as a means for reducing the negative impact of trauma experiences and supporting mental and physical health outcomes. They build on evidence developed over several decades. However, there has been a lack of consensus within the health and social care sector on how trauma-informed practice is defined, what its key principles are and how it can be built into services and systems.
Trauma-informed practice aims to increase practitioners’ awareness of how trauma can negatively impact on individuals and communities, and their ability to feel safe or develop trusting relationships with health and care services and their staff.
It aims to improve the accessibility and quality of services by creating culturally sensitive, safe services that people trust and want to use. It seeks to prepare practitioners to work in collaboration and partnership with people and empower them to make choices about their health and wellbeing.
Trauma-informed practice acknowledges the need to see beyond an individual’s presenting behaviours and to ask, ‘What does this person need?’ rather than ‘What is wrong with this person?’.
You can access guidance published by Gov. UK which provides a working definition of Trauma Informed Practice and signposts to other resources.
Join us today for an Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice 12 noon - 1pm.
Trauma informed approach and practice means recognising how common traumatic stress is, the potential impacts of trauma and taking action to avoid people becoming ‘retraumatised’ or unnecessarily stressed by interacting with you or your service.
During this session we will look at how trauma may present in people we are trying to support or work alongside and how to recognise these signs and to realise that all behaviour is communication.
Trauma Informed Practice may also mean reviewing what we do, including possibly making changes to how we deliver and make services accessible to those who struggle to trust professionals.
This session will take place on Thursday 23rd November 2023 starting at 12noon aiming to finish by 1pm.
Click here to join the session
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Trauma Informed Cumbria is a not for profit partnership improving organisational responses to trauma across Cumbria. Thier mission is to create a movement of change amongst Cumbrian professionals, raising awareness of trauma and improving everyone’s response, through partnership working and sharing best practice.
Their training, networking and consultancy follow the 6 principles of trauma-informed practice: safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment and cultural consideration.
The website has a host of resources and information. Including a short video from NHS Education for Scotland which aims to support workers to provide a trauma-informed service.
Watch a TED talk which gives an overview on how Adverse Childhood Events can have an impact on someone’s health over the course of their life.
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The difference trauma-informed practice makes
By increasing our awareness and practising in a way that is trauma-informed, we can empower service users to develop trusting relationships with our organisations. This can support them to engage and get the help and support they need.
Trauma-informed practice will ensure your work is safe, high quality and effective. It will result in greater understanding of, and empathy towards, your service users. Being trauma-informed can ultimately support you to make a greater difference to people’s lives – which also results in greater job satisfaction!
This trauma informed practice toolkit has been developed as part of the National Trauma Training Programme, to support all sectors of the workforce, in planning and developing trauma informed services.
Young Minds have developed a toolkit specifically aimed at practitioners working with young people to address trauma.
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Broadening our understanding of the effects of trauma can support the development of practice. New Research in Practice resources explore how we can make trauma-informed practice a reality.
Trauma-informed practice has become a common term within social care, however it’s application can be complex. A suite of eight new videos consider how we can build trauma-informed support and protection.
The videos, which include contributions from Lads Like Us, build on Dr Sheena Webb’s video resources. They consider the development of trauma-informed systems and how to support equitable practice.
What do we mean by trauma?
Trauma is used to describe the challenging emotional consequences that living through a distressing event can have for an individual. A series of three new open access video clips from Dr Danny Taggart explore what we mean by trauma, its impact and what trauma-informed care really looks like.
New blogs from Fiona Hayward and Dr Sarah Cryer also consider how trauma can impact those working within social care and education. They explore trauma risk management and how effective supervision can support education professionals.
By understanding how trauma affects individuals we can start to adapt practice to meet their needs. These resources aim to support trauma-informed practice.
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“Being Trauma informed isn't a tick box exercise, it's a way of being. Used with professional curiosity, you will save lives. It saved ours"
Lads Like Us are a Manchester based non-profit organisation whose journey started with a mission dedicated to informing the practice of professionals and organisations that had failed them as children and adults. They have created a trauma informed training package focusing on professional curiosity to inform practice, using little Mike and little Danny's experiences combined with the healing journeys of both not forgetting the input from the services that supported them.
The Million Pieces Experience training programme has received national NHS Safeguarding Award recognition and has proven to inform the practice of professionals. In 18 months they have shared their story with over 20,000 practitioners nationally and this number is rising daily.
You can follow Lads Like Us on social media @Lads_Like_Us
Watch Mike Hurst and listen here to his personal experience at a recent Institute of Health Visiting Conference and the impact an indivdiual practitioner can have displaying professional curiosity #AskWhy
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Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board in partnership with CSCP and Safer Cumbria have published a range of resources and guidance aimed at supporting practitioners to be professionally curious.
Access the resources here.
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The aim of today's session is to remind professionals that not everyone speaks the same language, and for anyone involved with services it can feel complex and overwhelming, and sometimes even embarrassing. Often language and the terms used can have stigma attached.
This session will explore the importance of the language we use in our everyday lives and the impact both good and bad, it can have on the people we are trying to support.
This session will take place today Friday 24th November 2023 starting at 12 noon aiming to finish by 1pm. Click here to join the session
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If you are concerned that an adult may be at risk of abuse or neglect and cannot protect themselves. You can report your concerns to Adult Social Care;
If you have concerns about an adult in Allerdale, Carlisle or Copeland contact Cumberland Council on 0300 373 373
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If you have concerns about an adult in Barrow, Eden or South Lakeland contact Westmorland and Furness Council on 0300 373 3301 |
Get in touch!
For more information please contact us:
Email: csab@cumberland.gov.uk
Web: www.cumbriasab.org.uk
Twitter: @cumbriasab
E-bulletins: cumberland.gov.uk/signup
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