What is it?
The toolkit includes guidance, resources and tools, coproduced with community organisations, people with lived experience of trauma, volunteers, partners and community stakeholders.
Quick Definitions
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic experiences that children experience before the age of 18 that can have lasting impacts on their mental health, physical health, and general well-being. Childhood trauma can disrupt normal brain development. There are decades of global research that tell us exactly what we can do to offset the harm that ACEs can cause.
Trauma can affect adults and children, resulting from events or circumstances that are harmful or life threatening and cause lasting adverse effects. Post-Traumatic Growth is the positive psychological change that some people experience after traumatic experiences.
Resources
Trauma Responsive Greater Manchester (trgm.co.uk)
ACE Aware Strategy (manchester.gov.uk)
Trauma Informed Practice Infographic
Trauma Informed Practice - 1 page overview
Community Challenges - Participants, environment & data
Community Challenges - Policies, leaders & teams
Community Conversations research
Codesigning in Bolton
When working with people, Trauma-informed practice is a way of working, grounded in the understanding that trauma exposure can impact a person's development and life experience and:
realises the impact of trauma and understands potential paths for recovery
recognises the signs and symptoms of trauma in people
responds in a way that uses the knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices and
seeks to actively resist re-traumatization by making sure that policies and procedures don’t cause more trauma to an individual.
