Trauma-informed Approach

Promoting trauma-informed approach in social and health care, implementing and evaluating a training program.

The project consists of four work packages.
Work package 1 develops a multiprofessional training model that supports continuous learning for the social and health care sector.
Work package 2 is responsible for implementation of the planned training package in different wellbeing services counties for multiprofessional groups.
Work package 3 will measure the effectiveness and impact of the training.
Work Package 4 is for managing and dissemination the project.

In order to offer trauma-informed social or health care services we need to have safe and sensitive work communities for social and health care professionals. A trauma-informed approach promotes the wellbeing of the professionals and the wellbeing of their work community.

The wellbeing services counties have only recently started their operations, which has caused a lot of changes and feelings of insecurity in employees and work communities. In a trauma-informed approach the safety of encounters is important. Feeling of security is always a bodily experience and connected to our nervous system and all our previous experiences. A trauma-informed approach aims for psychologically and bodily safe interaction not only in work communities but also in a societal level. Implementing a trauma-informed approach to organisations and services can therefore support the entire health and social services reform as a cross-cutting change for different services and occupational groups.

The aim of the project is to develop a training model for building and creating trauma-informed work communities. The training package and methods, that will be created in the project, will increase the readiness of social and health care service organisations to transform towards a trauma-informed operational culture and work community. Recently there has been a considerable need for competences of trauma-informed approach in the fields of social and health care and education.

The educational model that is developed within this project, will be evaluated and the impact is measured via surveys before, after and in long run after the trainings.  

ESR+ Euroopan sosiaalirahasto 2021-2027

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