This study investigates the healthcare needs, barriers to access, and the role of unmet health needs for women in, or at risk of entering, the criminal justice system. The research focuses on the first-hand experiences of women in North Wales, prior to any involvement with the criminal justice system in relation to their primary health needs (mental and physical health), using a mixed-methods approach including a focus group, questionnaires, and interviews.
The report’s recommendations focus on addressing barriers to healthcare access, prioritising early intervention and preventative healthcare, implementing trauma-informed and gender specific areas, expanding and integrating community-based services, streamlining, and improving service pathways and promoting further data collection and research in this area to fill existing gaps in knowledge and understanding in this area.
The physical environment domain asks organisations to consider all aspects of their physical and social environment and spaces can be TrACE informed and how this will support staff, service users, and anyone else who accesses the organisation.
This domain is an important source of information for organisations developing their action plans to make their organisations physical environments more TrACE-informed.
This guidance is to support organisations implementing the TrACE Toolkit, ensuring that they consider all aspects of their physical and social environment and the impact that it can have on staff, service users and anyone else who accesses the organisation. It is relevant to all those who are actively seeking to make their organisation’s physical environments more TrACE-informed. It seeks to illustrate that even small changes can have a big impact on how people interact with, and experience, an environment and that all organisations can seek to improve their physical environments regardless of budgetary and other constraints. It emphasises the need for careful planning, design, and implementation to create safety and promote healing and well-being for those who experience the environment and seeks, as far as is possible, to resist re-traumatising people who use the space.
This report explores trauma-informed training availability and needs of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) practitioners in Wales. ESOL learners come from diverse backgrounds, including refugees and asylum seekers who may have experienced complex trauma. It is essential that ESOL providers are trained to provide valuable support to these learners. The report presents findings from interviews with ESOL practitioners across Wales, exploring their training experiences and identifying additional training needs. The report's recommendations focus on enhancing trauma-informed training availability and delivery in Wales. The report is designed for ESOL practitioners and policymakers interested in trauma-informed approaches to teaching.
This important resource was co-produced with two of our third sector partner organisations, both Cymorth Cymru and Platfform have extensive expertise and experience of promoting psychologically-informed approaches, including reflective practice, in housing and homelessness, and mental health and wellbeing in a trauma-informed and relational way. The Starter Kit brings together knowledge, wisdom and practical advice, tested with people and organisations across Wales and through the TrACE Space.
This Reflective Practice Starter Kit is designed to be a practical starting point for these complex conversations and to support the development of a reflective and learning culture within your team, organisation or for yourself. This kit aims to help everyone involved in the TrACE-Informed journey to take steps to include reflective practice in their day-to-day operations. By doing so, the organisation will benefit from a strong learning culture, rooted in continuous improvement that includes not just what was done, but how it was done and how that felt for the people involved so that good practice can be embedded further and areas identified for further review and development.
This report outlines how, through adopting the ’Marmot City’ approach developed by Sir Michael Marmot, at a regional level in Gwent, ‘Building a Fairer Gwent’ seeks to embed a trauma-informed model that tackles health inequalities in a way that is aligned to the principles and ethos of the Wales Trauma-informed Framework. ‘Building a Fairer Gwent’ recognises the inextricable link between the social determinants of health, health inequalities and the risk of adverse childhood experiences and trauma. This work provides an important contribution to knowledge about community level work to tackle root causes.
This domain relates to developing and supporting people within the organisation to have the knowledge and skills they need to enable trauma and ACE (TrACE)-informed practice to be sustained and embedded. The domain aims to help organisations on their TrACE journey to establish a culture of ongoing supportive, learning cycles that recognize the
importance of the wellbeing and safety of the workforce and provision of tools and resources to embed this the practice.
A workforce training and development strategy can set out the priority and communicate the outcomes of this approach to help staff and volunteers to be equipped with skills and knowledge on ACEs, trauma and wider adversities and their potential impact, and to be able to respond to this appropriately in their work, and in support of each other through the provision training and resources at the appropriate practice level of the trauma-informed Wales Framework .The publication of the strategy and communications around it are also an important way to maintain the messages around why the organisation is implementing the TrACE toolkit, how taking a trauma and ACE-informed approach can mitigate against and prevent further harm, and the commitment of the organisation to equipping staff and volunteers with what they need to be able to do this.
Resources and tools that support this are found in this domain area and consideration should be given to provision of regular supervision and reflective practice opportunities to promote staff wellbeing and foster a culture of continuous learning to embed and sustain the training strategy as part of it.
This domain area considers an organisation's policies and procedures. The commitment to being trauma and ACE informed embedded and sustained by policies and procedures that have been reviewed to ensure that they support this ambition in how they are intended, written and understood.
On this page you will find resources from ACE Hub Wales exclusively available to the TrACE Space to support you in taking forward your self-assessment and action planning in this domain area. There are also practical examples and learning from organisations who have already implemented change in relation to policies and procedures.
An evaluation of the embedding of ACE Hub Wales ‘Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experience (TrACE) Informed Organisation Toolkit’ in Further Education settings across Wales. This evaluation explores the impact of the implementation of the TrACE Toolkit across the Further Education (FE) sector in Wales. The report highlights key findings and insights that demonstrates a strong infrastructure is in place to help the Further Education (FE) sector sustain TrACE-informed practices across Wales.
Welcome to ACE Hub Wales’ Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Trauma-Informed Practice e-Learning course. In reference to the National Trauma-Informed Wales Framework, this online course is considered to be at the “trauma-aware” level.
