Principles of Trauma Informed philosophy
•Safety
•Trustworthiness & transparency
•Peer support
•Collaboration & mutuality
•Empowerment & choice
•Cultural, historical & gender issues
Trauma-informed practices (sometimes referred to as trauma-informed care) are a model for understanding and compassionately serving people who live with, or are affected by, the consequences of toxic stress or trauma. First, by acknowledging the role that trauma has played in their health, behaviors, and relationships. Secondly, by providing services and support in ways that do not blame or re-traumatize a person in need.
Principles of Harm Reduction
HR dependence accepts licit and illicit drug use, abuse, and and chooses to work to is its harmful effects rather than simply ignore or minimize part of our world condemn them
HR understands complex, multi-use, abuse, and dependence is drug faceted phenomenon that encompasses a from severe abuse to total abstinence, and acknowledges that some ways of using drugs are clearly safer than others continuum of behaviors
Language & Intent vs. Impact
•Safe, calm and secure environment with supportive care
•System wide understanding of trauma prevalence, impact and trauma informed care
•Cultural Competence and Humility
•Consumer voice, choice and self-advocacy
•Recovery, consumer-driven and trauma specific services and/or supports
•Healing, hopeful, honest and trusting relationships
The focus on inclusive and respectful language. The goal is to use open language that honors our differences, and avoids reinforcing the negative ways that systems have labeled us. This means staying open to learning from one another how words can empower or hold us back. It also means respecting the names, pronouns, and other words people ask us to use for them.