Trauma informed approaches are based on a recognition and comprehensive understanding of the widespread impact of trauma. This leads to a fundamental shift in our thinking from: “What’s wrong with you?” to considering “What happened to you?”
Rather than being a specific service or set of rules, trauma-informed approaches are an ongoing process of individual and collective attention to creating environments, practices and relationships that promote recovery and prevent further harm.”
For further information, please visit the Compassionate Leeds Trauma-Informed Information Hub: What is trauma-informed practice? - MindMate
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What do trauma, adversity and compassion mean? (Information for practitioners on the Mindmate website)
The Compassionate Leeds strategy sets out Leeds’ ambition to be a trauma-informed city for children, young people and those who care for them.
“Our ambitious vision is for Leeds to work collectively as a trauma-informed city where we realise the widespread and unequal impact of adversity and recognise the part we can each play in overcoming this. Through nurturing relationships and building strengths, we hope that all babies, children, young people and those who care for them will feel safe and thrive. Compassionate Leeds Strategy, 2023”
The Compassionate Leeds Strategy document sets out a strategic vision agreed upon by all the key partners who commission, provide and support services for babies, children, young people and families in Leeds.
This strategy will help leaders in Leeds to hold themselves and others to account for delivering the vision for Leeds to become a trauma-informed city, with the expectation that it will take time and sustained effort and motivation to embed this approach.
For more information and to view the strategy, please visit: How will Leeds become a trauma-informed city? - MindMate