Trauma-Informed Systems and Multiple Disadvantage

This training helps you to better understand trauma and adversity and how we, as part of a system, can better respond, ensure genuine inclusion for people living with trauma and avoid re-traumatising people when in contact with services.

It applies a systemic lens to trauma-informed approaches and leads learners through an exploration of psychological trauma, how it impacts people and relates to experiences of multiple disadvantage, and why trauma-informed approaches need a system-wide response.

Using systems thinking tools and good practice examples, we’ll also look at what it means to be a trauma informed system and how local areas can get started developing these approaches in a systemic way.

What will you learn?

This course aims to:

• Introduce theories and approaches to trauma and to develop deeper trauma awareness
• Assess how trauma can present and impact your work, and explore why developing an understanding of trauma is vital
• Examine why trauma-informed approaches need a system wide response
• Explore examples with peers and share best practice and ideas to take away.