Policies and services that are enacted within trauma informed environments are based on a prevention model, and aim to create an approach that reduces the risk of retraumatisation while promoting healing and recovery.
This approach focuses on increasing the safety and trust in the provider-consumer relationship and encourages resilience through self-care practices, stress management techniques, and the reduction of compassion fatigue.
“Trauma-informed” is based on the understanding that the impact of violent experiences and damaging relationships affects not only the survivor's physical, mental, emotional, and economic well-being, but the spiritual as well.
Trauma-informed care involves not only changing assumptions about how we organize and provide services, but also creating organizational cultures that are personal, creative, open, and healing.
By facilitating healing through trauma-informed care, health risk behaviors that stem from unaddressed trauma can be prevented, which promotes overall self and community wellness.