We have produced a small number of videos that focus on different aspects of implementing a trauma-informed approach, showcasing learning and insights from local and national stakeholders and lived and learned expertise.
This online event in January 2023 was open to all IJB members (Voting and Non-Voting) across Scotland, and was hosted by Health and Social Care Scotland and the Improvement Service. The event was designed to bring together IJB members to consider the Scottish Government and COSLA’s ambition to develop trauma-informed services, systems and workforces across Scotland and how this can support health and social care priorities. This video features inputs from Dr Sandra Ferguson (NHS Education for Scotland), Shumela Ahmed (Resilience Learning Partnership) and Luan Grugeon (NHS Grampian & Aberdeen City Integration Joint Board).
Learning from research and consultation with leaders, experts by experience and experts by profession from organisations across Scotland highlights that workforce training is a key component of any organisation’s journey to becoming trauma-informed. Equally important are the culture, environments and ways of working across all of our organisations and multi-agency systems that can enable sustainable change that makes a difference to people affected by trauma.
Evidence suggests that leadership is critical in developing and sustaining trauma-informed change. Leaders at all levels are vital in creating an enabling environment for working in a trauma-informed way, and for helping all staff understand how trauma-informed change can support the organisation’s purpose and their own work. Leaders play a key role in ensuring there is the necessary infrastructure and accountability for long-term trauma-informed change across the organisation. This includes making efforts to reduce power differentials and empower people at all levels in the organisation, alongside people with lived experience of trauma, to take leadership of this work.
This short video features leaders from across Scotland, in the public and third sectors, discussing why trauma-informed leadership matters and what trauma-informed leadership looks and feels like.
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Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: Joining the dots across key policy agendas (briefing)
There are a number of key policy agendas that are part of a broader ambition to improve outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity. This briefing highlights the links across these and explores opportunities for re-framing these multiple policy ambitions as opportunities to work together around the common goal of improving outcomes for people and communities.
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Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: joining the dots across key policy agendas (infographic)
This infographic provides an overview of a small number of key national policy agendas, approaches and commitments, all designed to support a cross-policy, person-centred approach to improving outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity.