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June Learning Managing Panic and Anxiety with Movement - Session Recording 

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June Learning Managing Panic and Anxiety with Movement - Session Recording 

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April 2025

PV Theory, The Science of Safety

Session Recording

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Poly Vagal Theory, The Science of Safety

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Poly Vagal Theory, The Science of Safety

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Dr Niloufer Merchant delivered a talk on the science of safety.

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Camden presentation slides - The Science of Safety

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Register for upcoming learning sessions.

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva

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IFS and Legacy Burdens, It Didn't Start with You...

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IFS and Legacy Burdens, It Didn't Start with You...

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In February, Rabina Akhtar delivered a thought provoking talk about the legacy impact of generational trauma.

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Judith Herman session recording plus sigh up for February 2025 online learning session.

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December learning event with Dr Judith Herman

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December learning event with Dr Judith Herman

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In December 2024, we welcomed Dr Judith Herman.

The talk references sexual violence.

Judith Herman was a psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of traumatic stress. She is best known for her ground-breaking book "Trauma and Recovery". Her work has significantly influenced the field, particularly our understanding of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) and the effects of prolonged, repeated trauma.

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Judith Herman December 2024 learning session

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Innovation in co-production, Tavistock lectures on trauma and our December learning event in conversation with Judith Herman.

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Thank you to everyone who made it possible for us to evaluate our learning sessions. We will use this collective wisdom to learn and shape future sessions.

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Psychologically Informed Environments - Our Learning about developing PIE in the Adult Pathway  

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Psychologically Informed Environments - Our Learning about developing PIE in the Adult Pathway  

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“A PIE considers the emotional and psychological needs of all staff and clients in the way it is run, focusing on building relationships within which to begin recovery”

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See C&I's Trauma Informed Organisation Poster 

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See C&I's Trauma Informed Organisation Poster 

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C&I have made significant progress and have ambitions plans for their trauma-informed Trust. Their developments include a Clinical Service Audit Tool, Safe Therapeutic Environments Checklist and Strategy.

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Annie Scarborough, Coordinator for the Family & Counselling Service at CGL and core working group member for the trauma-informed network has written about addressing secondary trauma in our local system.

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June Learning Trauma-informed co-production with SHP 

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June Learning Trauma-informed co-production with SHP 

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In this session, we reflected on the experience of groupwork, how to honour and validate lived experience whilst also being able to ‘filter’ and ‘contain’ what we share to stay focused on the task at hand. SHP shared elements of their new toolkit on trauma-informed co-production featuring tried and tested tools and session plans.

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Trauma-informed co-production slides June 2024

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St Mungo's

A gender informed and trauma responsive approach to working with multiple disadvantaged women.

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Case Study: Mary and her dedicated support teams show how trauma-informed practice is not a quick fix in a complex environment, but it can be a vital road to change.  

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Case Study: Mary and her dedicated support teams show how trauma-informed practice is not a quick fix in a complex environment, but it can be a vital road to change.  

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This piece was generously shared by Mary and SHP's navigator service.

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Be part of the trauma-informed local community of providers committing to trauma-informed practice. Sign your organisation's name below.   

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Be part of the trauma-informed local community of providers committing to trauma-informed practice. Sign your organisation's name below.   

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Our Charter is a way for services to commit to Trauma-informed Practice.

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Our co-created guidance is a collaborative effort, incorporating insights from providers, individuals with lived experience, and commissioners.

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Trauma and Psychologically Informed Framework - a Resource for Empowering Local Initiatives for Trauma-informed Practice    

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Trauma and Psychologically Informed Framework - a Resource for Empowering Local Initiatives for Trauma-informed Practice    

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PIE and trauma informed framework Feb 2025

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In this edition, we consider the legacy of language.

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February learning event with Staci Haines - Recording

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February learning event with Staci Haines - Recording

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Camden and Islington trauma informed network, learning session on Managing Complexity part 1

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In this piece, R shares insights into autism, its nuances and challenges, and the importance of validation in relationships.

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In our February learning session with Staci Haines, we were guided through the impact of trauma through the lens of soma.

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Human Development A Complex and Precarious Process - Trauma Love Hope 

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Human Development A Complex and Precarious Process - Trauma Love Hope 

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Adam Flintoff, psychotherapist with the Tavistock and Portman's trauma service and core working group member of the trauma-informed network and has written an in-depth piece on early development, the impact of trauma, love, healing and hope.

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Human Development A Complex and Precarious Process

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Scotland's new implementation! Informed and Responsive Change: Guidance for Organisations, Systems and Workforces in Scotland (2023)

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Scotland's new implementation! Informed and Responsive Change: Guidance for Organisations, Systems and Workforces in Scotland (2023)

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Implementation - National Trauma Transformation Programme

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FREE course - The Gift of Reconnection: Trauma-Informed Practice training

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FREE course - The Gift of Reconnection: Trauma-Informed Practice training

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Thrive LDN has partnered with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to offer free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations.

Find below open access workshops and further materials to support individuals and organisations to achieve Bronze, Silver and Gold standard.

The training is designed for anyone in a role supporting others, whether formal or informal. However, participating in the training supports an understanding of how trauma influences and shapes the lives of those it touches regardless of previous knowledge or role.

About the trainer

Nicola Lester is a registered mental health nurse by background, specialising in working with psychological trauma and developing trauma informed approaches to practice across a range of contexts, both in the UK and overseas.
Use of the training workshops and further materials
The team at Nicola Lester Trauma Consultancy have worked very hard to develop this training and to make it accessible to all. We are delighted to host it here for free with thanks to funding and support by the Mayor of London. We ask that you respect this by keeping this online training for use by you and your organisation and do not reproduce the materials or re-distribute for profit.

Please do tell as many people as you can about this free training - this will help us to fulfil our vision of a trauma informed everything!

Bitesize option

Become gold level trauma-informed in just eight weeks

To complete all the available training, starting from the introduction below, takes close to 5 hours in total. Building on feedback, we have developed a bitesize approach to help make things more manageable and less overwhelming.

Subscribe to an eight-week programme and you'll receive the training chapter-by-chapter direct into your inbox. This means you can spend around 20-30 minutes per week engaging with the training.

By week 8 you'll have fully completed the training programme and will be awarded gold level status 'Committed to Trauma Informed Practice'.
Sign up today.
Introduction

As part of a wider campaign to increase access to training in trauma informed practice, Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy has developed the following recorded, open access training workshops to support individuals and organisations.

In a short introductory video, Nicola Lester introduces the training series and the various training levels. We encourage you to watch this introduction before beginning the Bronze Level recorded training workshop.

Bronze Level

The Gift of Reconnection: Becoming Trauma Aware (Bronze level)

This online recorded training workshop is comprised of an introduction to the training series, followed by three chapters each lasting between 25-35 minutes.

Overview of the training

Making a commitment to 'practice' trauma informed care first requires an understanding of how trauma influences and shapes the lives of those it touches. We must know how it changes, alters and transforms the way someone thinks and feels; how they engage with and experience the world around them.

Specific chapters include:

Understanding trauma and loss

Understanding the complexity of developmental trauma

Integrating a trauma informed approach to practice

Additional training materials
The Gift of Reconnection Becoming Trauma Aware (Bronze level) Manual [PDF]
A download of the training workshop slides to keep as a manual for the Bronze Level.
Bronze Level: Becoming Trauma Aware - Facilitation guide [PDF]
Whilst the bronze level training video can be accessed individually, some organisations may prefer to participate in a group, either in person or online. This brief guide to facilitators to promote engagement and enhance opportunities for discussion and sharing learning.
Bronze Level: Becoming Trauma Aware - aide-mémoire [PDF]
A download of a memory aid to support the Bronze Level training.

Certificate of completion

Once you have completed The Gift of Reconnection: Becoming Trauma Aware (Bronze level) training, then please fill out this online form.

The form will give you an opportunity to reflect on your learning, and provide information to receive a certificate of completion and certified badge, which can be used to demonstrate your knowledge and trauma informed training status. If you require support in completing this or would like it in another format, then please contact the Thrive LDN team.

Silver Level

The Gift of Reconnection: Developing Trauma Informed Practice (Silver Level)

This online recorded training workshop is comprised of two chapters each lasting between 25-35 minutes.

Please note, this is the second level of the series. Please access the bronze level training before you access the silver level.

Overview of the training

At the silver level, we move beyond developing an awareness of the impact of trauma to thinking about how we 'practice' a trauma informed approach. This is broken down into two key areas; therapeutic skills for reconnection and creativity in trauma informed practice.

Whilst trauma informed practice is not about 'treating' trauma or providing 'therapy', it is about being 'therapeutic' and sitting in the darkness beside someone demands an understanding of connection, empathy, compassion, courage and vulnerability and kindness. In this session we establish the skills needed to bear witness to distress and remain present, withhold judgement and hold space and to 'steward' stories.

Specific chapters include:

From disconnection to reconnection-therapeutic skills for practice

Creative trauma informed practice

Additional training materials

▪ The Gift of Reconnection Developing Trauma Informed Practice (Silver Level) Manual [PDF]

A download of the training workshop slides to keep as a manual for the Silver Level.

▪ Silver Level: Developing Trauma Informed Practice - Facilitation guide [PDF]

Whilst the training video can be accessed individually, some organisations may prefer to participate in a group, either in person or online. This brief guide to facilitators to promote engagement and enhance opportunities for discussion and sharing learning.

▪ Silver Level: Developing Trauma Informed Practice - aide-mémoire [PDF]

A download of a memory aid to support the Silver Level training.
▪ Making a friendship bracelet ▪ Making a worry doll booklet ▪ Trauma informed brownies
Certificate of completion

Once you have completed The Gift of Reconnection: Developing Trauma Informed Practice (Silver Level) training, then please fill out this online form.

The form will give you an opportunity to reflect on your learning, and provide information to receive a certificate of completion and certified badge, which can be used to demonstrate your knowledge and trauma informed training status. If you require support in completing this or would like it in another format, then please contact the Thrive LDN team.

Gold Level

The Gift of Reconnection: Committed to Trauma Informed Practice (Gold Level)

This online recorded training workshop is comprised of three chapters each lasting between 30-45 minutes.

Please note, this is the third level of the series. Please access the bronze and silver level trainings before you access the gold level.

Overview of the training

At the gold level, the focus shifts from individual practice to think about organisational practice. When we consider 'trauma', both in terms of its cause and effect, discussions of power should never be far behind. This level also examines the challenge of working within 'traumatised organisations' and the barriers that these can create to making a commitment to trauma informed practice.

Understanding how organisations can also become disconnected, disempowered and isolated is essential, not least because of the profound implications that this has on staff and beneficiaries and their experiences. Most importantly, the topic of self-care and vicarious trauma is also explored as we acknowledge that a commitment to trauma informed practice can only emerge when we make the same commitment to take care of ourselves.

The final chapter focuses on making 'SENSE' of trauma informed practice, offering a structure for trauma informed care by weaving together knowledge and practice to create this commitment.

Specific chapters include:

Understanding organisations, trauma, power and betrayal

Our hearts: The impact of working with trauma

Making SENSE of trauma informed practice

Additional training materials
▪The Gift of Reconnection Committed to Trauma Informed Practice (Gold Level) manual [PDF] ▪Gold Level Committed to Trauma Informed Practice - Facilitation guide [PDF]
A download of the training workshop slides to keep as a manual for the Gold Level.

Whilst the training video can be accessed individually, some organisations may prefer to participate in a group, either in person or online. This brief guide to facilitators to promote engagement and enhance opportunities for discussion and sharing learning.
▪Gold Level Committed to Trauma Informed Practice - reflective practice guide [Word]
▪ Gold Level: Committed to Trauma Informed Practice - aide-mémoire [PDF]

A download of a memory aid to support the Gold Level training.

A reflective practice guide for participants to use when accessing the Gold Level training.

Certificate of completion

Once you have completed The Gift of Reconnection: Committed to Trauma Informed Practice (Gold Level) training, then please fill out this online form.

The form will give you an opportunity to reflect on your learning, and provide information to receive a certificate of completion and certified badge, which can be used to demonstrate your knowledge and trauma informed training status. If you require support in completing this or would like it in another format, then please contact the Thrive LDN team.

Getting Through This Together

Getting Through This Together is a campaign developed by Thrive LDN in response to the increased cost-of-living pressures.

Getting Through This Together aims to encourage Londoners to strengthen their social networks with family members and friends, and trusted others in their community - which we know is going to be a significant factor in supporting people during this period. As well as highlighting the professional support and advice services which are available.

The Gift of Reconnection training series forms part of the campaign's range of tools and resources to protect and enhance people's mental wellbeing, so that they can adapt and thrive after their lives have been disrupted by current shocks.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Recovery Mission

This series of trauma informed training sessions are funded and supported by the Mayor of London to support Londoners recover from the mental health impacts of the pandemic and face the cost-of-living crisis. This comes as thousands of Londoners pledge to become champions for positive wellbeing where they are empowered to act to improve their own and their communities' wellbeing.

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Trauma-Informed Practice training - Thrive LDN

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Thrive LDN has partnered with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to offer free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training to support individuals and organisations. Find below open access workshops and further materials to support individuals and organisations to achieve Bronze, Silver and Gold standard. The training is designed for anyone in a role supporting others, whether formal or informal.

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How does trauma effect the mind and body?

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How does trauma effect the mind and body?

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How does trauma affect the mind and body

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No Bad Parts, September 2023 learning session with Dr Siobhan Netherwood Consultant adolescent psychiatrist in Camden. 

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No Bad Parts, September 2023 learning session with Dr Siobhan Netherwood Consultant adolescent psychiatrist in Camden. 

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In this session, we were introduced to Internal Family Systems, a model of the mind/body system, an evidence based form of therapy and a way of life, discovered through clinical work by Richard Schwartz in the US in the 1980s.

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Trauma informed approaches to supporting people with multiple disadvantage 

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See information about our September learning event and more.

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Trauma Informed Lancashire - Trauma Informed Lancashire - Trauma Support & Awareness

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Trauma Informed Lancashire Trauma Informed Lancashire is a movement supporting public, private and third sector organisations and communities in understanding how psychological trauma can impact individuals and considering implications for their services. What is Trauma Informed? Trauma is a global…

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July 2023 Learning event - Efu Nyaki's talk 

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July 2023 Learning event - Efu Nyaki's talk 

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Camden Islington Trauma Informed Network June Newsletter

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Our trauma informed group agreement was created by a brilliantly dedicated group, who persevered over several months and created something whole from a relatively blank slate.

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Our Story so Far - our learning from creating a trauma-informed network.

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Our Story so Far - our learning from creating a trauma-informed network.

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Read our origin story, why and how we created the network, who we are and what we do.

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Mental Health Foundation Engaging with Complexity

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Mental Health Foundation Engaging with Complexity

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Trauma Informed Practice and Adverse Childhood Experiences – Safe4Me

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Trauma-informed practice is a strengths-based approach, which seeks to understand and respond to the impact of trauma on people’s lives.

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Research in Practice Leaders Briefing - Developing and Leading Trauma-informed Practice

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Research in Practice Leaders Briefing - Developing and Leading Trauma-informed Practice

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Tackling poor health outcomes: the role of trauma-informed care

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People who have experienced trauma face a number of barriers to accessing health care. Deborah Fenney explains why a trauma-informed approach is essential for supporting a group that currently face poor health outcomes.

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Trauma-informed Practice | The Innovate Project

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We propose that services should use a ‘trauma-informed’ approach to improve outcomes across practice systems.

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Trauma-informed Practice

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 toolkit from the Anna Freud centre

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 toolkit from the Anna Freud centre

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This was one of our first activities together in 2021, and the start of our thinking about what we wanted to do together.

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FLIC - Reflections on our way of working in a trauma-informed way

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FLIC - Reflections on our way of working in a trauma-informed way

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Information Sheet UCL Trauma Infomred Network Research 

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West Yorkshire - Trauma-informed and responsive as a system by 2030

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West Yorkshire - Trauma-informed and responsive as a system by 2030