The West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership has a joint ambition to work together with people with lived experience and colleagues across all sectors and organisations to ensure West Yorkshire is a trauma informed and responsive system by 2030.
Understanding that life experiences can be the root cause of poor health is integral to building a trauma informed system. People experiencing traumatic experiences when young, such as abuse, violence, neglect, poverty, or discrimination are more likely to be affected later in life, for example, depression, anxiety, chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions, substance misuse or behavioural problems etc.
By working together across our five places: Bradford District and Craven; Calderdale; Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield District the West Yorkshire Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Programme aims to help prevent trauma and mitigate harm by:
- understanding our services better
- understanding the needs of our population
- preventing re-traumatisation and offering better care for all that is equitable and accessible
To support this, one ambition is to ensure all organisations in West Yorkshire become trauma informed, this includes
- Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Foundation Training for all staff appropriate to job role (including managers and leaders)
- Embedding trauma informed reflective practice and restorative supervision across all organisations to support the health and wellbeing of the West Yorkshire workforce.
Volunteers form an essential part of our health and care workforce within West Yorkshire, but are not necessarily being considered within this trauma informed ambition.
To help explore the opportunities to embed trauma informed practices to support our volunteer workforce, please complete this survey to help shape project priorities: Trauma Informed Volunteer Workforce Survey
