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Online resource helps young people recover from trauma of care and custody systems

4 mins read Social Care Youth Justice
A digital toolkit centred around a trauma-informed approach is being used to better support those working with care- and custody-experienced young people.
Training includes group exercises encouraging participants to apply their learning. Picture: Adobe Stock
Training includes group exercises encouraging participants to apply their learning. Picture: Adobe Stock

Charity develops digital toolkit for practitioners and young people to understand trauma and how to reduce its impact

The toolkit includes a guide to the Trauma Recovery Model and accessible training on trauma-informed working

Feedback from practitioners and young people has been positive with the toolkit accessed more than 800 times

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A digital toolkit centred around a trauma-informed approach is being used to better support those working with care- and custody-experienced young people.

Informing Futures was launched as a suite of free resources almost two years ago by charity 1625 Independent People having previously been awarded National Lottery funding.

The charity says the website is a legacy that shares learning gathered from its Future 4 Me project which worked with groups of vulnerable 16- to 25-year-olds in Bristol and the South West from 2012 to 2019.

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