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This brief draws on interviews with national experts on trauma-informed care to create a framework for organizational and clinical changes that can be practically implemented across the health care sector to address trauma. It also highlights payment, policy, and educational opportunities to acknowledge trauma’s impact.
This paper defines trauma-informed service delivery in Australian child/family welfare, emphasising responses to trauma's effects, challenges in implementation, and the need for consistent frameworks and interventions.
The framework outlines the terms, principles and practice domains associated with trauma, contains practical advice for working with children and young people, individuals and families and provides an example of trauma-informed practice.
The framework guides system-wide change by outlining principles, implementation domains, strategic objectives and behaviour change required to provide integrated trauma-informed care. The principles of integrated trauma-informed care are addressed across all domains of the NSW Health system, including governance and leadership, training and workforce development, policy, monitoring and quality assurance, engagement and involvement, financing, cross-sector collaboration, physical environment, quality service provision, and evaluation and technology.
This framework develops a working concept of trauma and a trauma-informed approach, as well as a shared understanding of these concepts across an array of service systems and stakeholder groups.
This practice paper introduces complex trauma and trauma-informed care, including their importance in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of infants and young children.
This guide has been developed to support organisational congruence in the provision of trauma informed therapeutic care and the critical need for a well-supported, capable, and stable staff group to deliver this vision.
An interview with Therapeutic Specialist Jessica Wright, from Australian Childhood Foundation, who is a strong advocate for neuroaffirming practice, having seen many children in out-of-home care who struggle with trauma-based responses alongside neurodivergent traits.
This scoping review explores the characteristics of parents, carers, children, and young people in cases of CPVA, the characteristics of CPVA, and barriers to and facilitators of help-seeking in cases of CPVA.
