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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.

Attached is a downloadable link to a Trauma & Psychologically Informed Framework, produced by Camden and Islington Trauma-informed Network. 

The Framework is a resource for empowering local initiatives for Trauma-informed practice.

The contents of the framework includes:

  • an introduction
  • using the framework
  • understanding and defining Trauma
  • supporting the workforce
  • principle, practice and reflective learning
  • Camden & Islington's process, learning and a stakeholder map.

 

In June 2025 Camden and Islington’s trauma-informed Network hosted a learning event:

'Embodied Strategies for Safety from the Inside Out' with Josefin Wikström, Program Director & Training Coordinator, Prison Yoga project Europe.

Josefin’s session included practical strategies for accessing movement on and off the yoga mat, neuroscience and research findings supporting movement-based approaches as an adjunct to trauma treatment.  

You can watch the session recording here.

The session recording is where you can also access the PYP recording from people who have used yoga in prison.

Last updated: 01 November 2024