National Trauma Transformation Programme

Vision

Our overarching vision is:

“A trauma informed and responsive workforce, that is capable of recognizing where people are affected by trauma and adversity, that is able to respond in ways that prevent further harm and support recovery, and can address inequalities and improve life chances.”

What do we mean by trauma informed practice?

• Being ‘Trauma Informed’ means being able to recognise when someone may be affected by trauma, collaboratively adjusting how we work to take this into account and responding in a way that supports recovery, does no harm and recognises and supports people's resilience.
• Being 'Trauma Informed' is underpinned by the 5 R's:
  • Realising how common the experience of trauma and adversity is
  • Recognising the different ways that trauma can affect people
  • Responding by taking account of the ways that people can be affected by trauma to support recovery, and recognise and support Resilience
  • Opportunities to Resist re-traumatisation and offer a greater sense of choice and control, empowerment, collaboration and safety with everyone that you have contact with
  • Recognising the central importance of Relationships

In the ‘Learning resources’ section below you will find a link to a range of eModules, key documents and other training materials that will help to operationalise the above.

Learning Resources

We have a suite of openly available resources to support trauma informed practice across the workforce. Please view a summary of all of our current trauma training resources on this page under Summary of NTTP Learning Resources.

Opening Doors

Our animation, Opening Doors, provides a brief introduction to the impact of trauma and trauma informed practice. It aims to support workers to know how to adapt the way they work to make a positive difference to people affected by trauma and adversity. Trauma is everybody's business. We have a series of animations, workshops and emodules you can find on the above summary document.

The Knowledge and Skills Framework

This landmark interactive document  [PDF] was developed in collaboration with organisations across Scotland and people with lived experiences of trauma. It synthesises the best available evidence to detail the different knowledge and skills that are needed by workers across the whole Scottish workforce to respond to those affected by trauma at different stages in their recovery

The Trauma Training Plan

This practical guidance tool [PDF] is designed to be used in conjunction with the Knowledge Skills and Framework to support all organisations in Scotland to develop their workers to understand the impact of trauma on people’s lives and be trauma-responsive.

The Roadmap

This Roadmap has been designed to help services and organisations identify and reflect on progress, strengths and opportunities for embedding a trauma-informed and responsive approach across policy and practice.

For more information, please go to our website.

Contact us

psychology@nes.scot.nhs.uk