The Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference provides an opportunity to showcase, share learning and explore innovative partnerships and collaborations between the law enforcement and the public health sector that help to redress inequities and promote healthy, secure and safe communities.
This will be the 7th International Conference of Law Enforcement and Public Health, the overarching theme being Towards a Healthier and more Equitable State.
This year, ACE Hub Wales, Trauma-Informed Wales, Bangor University, the Wales Violence Prevention Team and Wrexham University will showcase the aspirational approach Wales is taking across devolved and non-devolved sectors to prevent violence and mitigate the impact of trauma and adversity, building from the evidence whilst prioritising collaboration and participation and centering the voices of communities and those least often heard.
Through two panel sessions, presenters will explore the journey Wales is taking to becoming a trauma-informed nation and reflect on the challenges and successes of partnering for whole systems change. Two Market Place of Ideas sessions will enable a deeper dive into the opportunities of creative research methodologies to amplify unheard voices and the importance of storytelling – and listening – in developing wisdom about the experiences of people who do not often get an opportunity to have their say.
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You can read more about the content of each panel session below.
This session will look at the journey we are undertaking in Wales to explore and understand how intergenerational experiences of racism and discrimination are understood through a trauma-informed lens This work supports the development of resources and guidance to meet the Wales commitment to becoming an anti-racist nation by 2030, and specific objectives of our Criminal Justice System anti-racism plan. This session is an acknowledgement of how, in developing our approach to a trauma-informed Wales by doing things the way we always do; we have been complicit in keeping the margins from the centre and how we are addressing this unintended consequence of our work.
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This session sets out our methodological approach to whole systems change in Wales to achieve the ambition of a ‘Wales Without Violence’. Extensive work over the last two years has resulted in the Wales Without Violence Framework an evidence-led, trauma-informed and co-produced Framework that offers nine strategies for the prevention of violence between children and young people. This innovative approach will be explored in terms of how it was co-produced and the role of behavioural science in influencing the behaviour change we want to see.
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