The ACE Support Hub is pleased to share with you a new report, ‘Trauma-informed’: Identifying Key Language and Terminology through a Review of the Literature.
We were delighted to collaborate with Wrexham Glyndwr University (WGU) to develop this essential resource to underpin their journey to become a trauma and ACE informed University.
The Welsh Government ‘Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) policy report: How the ACE policy has performed and how it can be developed in the future’, published in March 2021, set out the need to focus on what professionals, organisations and experts need to do to turn knowledge about ACEs into practice that makes a difference to people’s lives. It recognised the shift towards using the term ‘trauma-informed’ to describe this; but also the lack of clarity about exactly what this means and how this is already being embedded in practice and different approaches. To address this lack of clarity’, this report provides a scoping review of the international literature to explore how the term is understood and used in practice. This also responds to the Deputy Ministers’ principles for the work of the ACE Hub for 2021-22, in particular the need to be mindful of the language that we use and its impact.
