Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future – culturally safe trauma-informed care

This webinar is hosted by Safer Care Victoria.

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The Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future culturally safe trauma-informed care training aims to improve service providers understanding of trauma and build confidence providing safe and supportive care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

In this webinar we will focus on one aspect of this training – the neurophysiology and neurological biology of trauma. We will:

• describe different types of trauma (PTSD, Complex PTSD, intergenerational trauma), how the stress response can become dysregulated, trauma-related changes to brain structure and function, and how epigenetic changes may facilitate the inheritance of trauma-related responses across generations.
• help providers understand how challenging behaviours and presentations may be explained by previous trauma and should be viewed as understandable, adaptive coping strategies, and provide strategies to prevent re-traumatisation in health care settings.
• introduce Working Towards Safe and Sacred Care: A toolkit to support culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed continuity of care/r for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families in the perinatal period.

Presenter: Dr Kim Jones is a Senior Research Fellow and deputy head of the Indigenous Health Equity Unit at Onemda, the University of Melbourne. She is a non-Indigenous researcher with a background in trauma research and training, neuroscience, and clinical guideline development. Kim’s research focuses on community-led and co-designed implementation and evaluation projects that aim to strengthen services to support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families with complex and intergenerational trauma.