Trauma Informed Practice

Promoting the voices of young women through in-depth interviews, this article considers their story of violence, abuse, homelessness, and sense of safety.
Based on qualitative fieldwork in Rotterdam, and using Van Dijk and Steinmetz’s risk model as a theoretical lens, we argue that irregular status, interacting with other relevant factors such as social capital, co-determines the men’s criminal victimization risks, and fear of crime.
Support services for individuals experiencing homelessness are encouraged to use trauma-informed models of care. This paper outlines a trauma-aware framework used for nearly a decade within a youth refuge located in Melbourne, Australia.

Safe and stable housing is vital to the well-being of both young parents transitioning from out-of-home care and their children….

To ensure Australians living with BPD receive effective treatment and the best chance of recovery (and their support network receive…

Today Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this…

The initiative involved four stages of research designed to investigate the nature of the relationship between trauma and long-term homelessness, with each stage building on the findings of the last.