City-Wide Trauma Awareness, Sensitivity and Healing Through Relationships
and nurturing relationships (Brooks, 2019; Treisman, 2018). This strategy aims to promote the role we can all play in our relationships with each other. We in Cork city aspire to have an understanding that trauma is everyone’s business, and we all have a role to play in providing support. In shaping a vision for our city, Cork Trauma-Sensitive Cities Steering Committee have been working, learning, and reflecting in collaboration with other cities and trauma-sensitive organisations over the past 24 months. This is to ensure we fully comprehend the science of trauma and how it relates and translates to the local city context, in order to better understand what a trauma-sensitive approach should look like for Cork City. This strategy provides a framework for the city to develop pathways and opportunities to ensure as a city we are adopting a trauma-sensitive approach, which will involve a comprehensive change in the manner in which we develop and deliver services and programmes across the city. This will ensure that all partners can demonstrate a basic understanding of trauma and consider the implications for people experiencing trauma in their planning and delivery and where appropriate utilise trauma- sensitive responses (Kimberg &
Wheeler, 2019; SAMSHA, 2014)). Sandra Cogan Williamson Chair Cork Trauma- Sensitive City
Cork Trauma Sensitive City
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