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A Trauma-Informed Approach for Children’s Home Staff


What is a Trauma-Informed Approach?

For those caring for children within a residential setting, having a trauma-informed approach means understanding how traumatic experiences such as abuse, neglect and multiple placement breakdowns shape a child’s development, and therefore their thoughts feelings and behaviours.

As well as developmental difficulties and attachment disorders, a young person’s trauma often manifests itself through a variety of mental health problems. Therefore, supporting our most troubled young people is an extremely challenging job, which is why there is an increasing demand for workers to undertake the additional training necessary to become more therapeutic in their approach.

Children’s Homes staff have experienced how useful our “PACE” and “Secure Base” elements are. The PACE structure provides a foundation for building the therapeutic relationships needed for the young person’s cognitive and emotional development. It also gives workers instantly implementable techniques and is an excellent de-escalation tool. “Secure Base” also provides a clear structure that can be used agency-wide.

 

The Feedback so far…

Our Innovative PACE training suite provides all the knowledge and skills needed to support young people through the “Three Stages of Recovery” from trauma. These three stages are Stabilisation, Adaptation and Integration (as mapped out by Judith Lewis Herman).

Staff are struck by the relevance and usefulness of this training package and have fed back that it should play a major part in all staff inductions, to enable staff to build those vital relationships with their young people as quickly as possible.

Many staff report that their Attachment training thus far has not gone deep enough and Trauma training had not been adequate. They had also not known how to integrate this theory into their day to day interactions with the children before.

Who benefits from a Trauma-Informed Approach?

Our program is for workers that support young people who have been impacted by complex trauma. Complex trauma includes a range of stressful experiences which are typically chronic and interpersonal and may affect many different areas of a child or adolescent’s life. Arguably, any carer of a traumatised child needs to become a therapeutic carer, so this course is for both experienced workers and those brand new to the profession.

All courses are also highly recommended for foster carers, residential workers, social workers and drug workers.

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