Trauma and a home first
Trauma-informed practice and Housing First.
Three hours on trauma and a home first: trauma and adversity, trauma-informed principles, Trauma-Informed Wales at organisational scale, Housing First and psychologically informed environments.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- Where
- Homes and residents
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders and managers in homelessness, housing, supported accommodation and mental health services
Overview
Many people facing homelessness have lived with trauma, and a service's rules, buildings and relationships can help or harm. This course comes from Every door the right door and starts with Herman's account of complex trauma, the Welsh Adverse Childhood Experiences study and Siegel's window of tolerance, with Aberfan in 1966 as its case. It turns to SAMHSA's principles, Harris and Fallot's five core values and the Trauma-Informed Wales framework with its TrACE toolkit. Last, it looks at Housing First, from Sam Tsemberis to Finland and Homeless Link's principles, and psychologically informed environments, where behaviour is treated as communication.
Aims
Above all, it seeks to help leaders build trauma-informed organisations in practice, not only in policy, apply Housing First principles with fidelity, and set boundaries that are clear, consistent and fair, so that exclusion becomes the exception rather than the rule.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Apply the window of tolerance and the idea that behaviour is communication to how your service responds to people.
- Assess your organisation across policy, environment, HR, governance, data and commissioning using the Trauma-Informed Wales framework.
- Explain how Housing First differs from the staircase model, and plan steps to make exclusion the exception in your service.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain SAMHSA's three Es of trauma and distinguish single incident, complex, developmental, collective and organisational forms of trauma.
- Describe SAMHSA's four Rs and six principles and explain how each translates into what an organisation does rather than what it knows.
- Describe the four practice levels and five principles of the Trauma-Informed Wales framework and what makes it a societal rather than a single-service approach.
- Explain how Housing First differs from the staircase model, and why it treats a home as a foundation for recovery rather than a reward.
- Explain why the building, rules and relationships of a service are part of the support, using SAMHSA's six principles and the five elements of a PIE.
- Interpret findings such as the Welsh ACE study as population patterns rather than predictions about any one person.
- Distinguish trauma-informed services from trauma-specific services and use Harris and Fallot's five core values to test a process in your service.
- Outline the stages of the TrACE Organisations Toolkit and the Welsh policy milestones that have moved expectations from individual awareness to system change.
Built from 2 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01Understanding traumaTrauma, adversity and trauma-informed principlesBitesize · Trauma-Informed Leadership and Organisations3 modules
- 02A home firstHousing First and psychologically informed servicesBitesize · Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage2 modules