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Trauma-informed Practice

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Trauma-informed Practice

The What Matters section now includes information about trauma-informed practice. Trauma-informed practice is closely aligned with the strength-based approach of What Matters. This way of working recognises that a person’s experience of trauma may influence their engagement with services and responsiveness to our interventions. While there is no shared agreement in Camden, or more widely across the social care sector about how to define and implement trauma-informed practice, we recognise the value of arriving at our approach as a collective.

You can read Lancs-VRN-Trauma-Informed-toolkit, the national trauma training framework and SAMHSA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for Trauma-Informed Approaches for long guidance.

Specialist Support Team Test and Learn

As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we are working with the Specialist Support Team to deepen our understanding of trauma-informed practice across Camden.

Trauma-informed practice helps us recognise and respond sensitively to the impact that trauma can have on the people we work with, as well as on ourselves.

Through this work, we aim to build our knowledge and confidence in our approach - taking into account the realities and challenges of working with people and communities affected by trauma in a system under strain.

Trauma Informed Practice_Specialist Support Team Test and Learn slides session 1

Mapping Risk - slides

Some notes on trauma - Martin Hampton

Last updated: 11 March 2026