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.
In this video our TrACE Project Manager Zarqa gives a brief overview of the physical environment domain area.
Resources
Here you will find resources that will help to develop a trauma and ACE informed approach to your organisations physical environment.
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.
GuidanceTrACE Physical Environment Animation: Coming Soon!
This animation will 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.