Our new research with Centre for Mental Health, A sense of safety: Trauma-Informed approaches for women, explores how trauma-informed approaches are being implemented by public services including women’s centres, prisons and mental health services.
Within the services we looked at, those taking a holistic approach to supporting women’s needs were best able to make the change to becoming trauma-informed. But, in many organisations, becoming trauma-informed is made difficult by the environment they are working in or by short-term and fragile funding.
A sense of safety calls for all public services to be gender and trauma-informed.
