Holistic and social supports

Supports need to include both traditional medical models and models that consider the person in the context of their broader social and emotional wellbeing.

14

Explore opportunities to extend the range of psychosocial programs and whole-of-person wellbeing supports available to people following exposure to traumatic circumstances.

Early support, including across the life course

The experience and impact of adversity, trauma and healing can impact a person differently at different times in their life. It is important that timely support is available across all aspects of a person’s life.

15

Extend community-based support (including home visiting services) that are family and carer inclusive in the perinatal period and the first 2,000 days.

16

Enhance and expand supports available to people who have experienced trauma in the perinatal period, including termination of pregnancy, early pregnancy loss, stillbirth and birth trauma.

17

Enhance access to culturally safe and responsive support, including trauma-informed maternity and perinatal care practices that incorporate cultural healing.

18

Increase the availability of parenting programs and supports for families with infants and children, ensuring these services are culturally safe and responsive, and tailored to support the needs of diverse communities.

19

Implement respectful relationships education for young people in all Queensland schools as a whole school primary prevention approach to contribute to the prevention of domestic, family and sexual violence.

20

Strengthen trauma-informed service integration (e.g. multi-agency coordination panels) for children
and young people at risk of, or in contact with multiple tertiary systems, such as youth justice, child safety or a child and youth mental health service.

21

Support students to remain engaged with school by promoting a whole school approach to supporting student wellbeing.

22

Strengthen diversionary responses for children and young people known to the criminal justice
system, with a particular focus on regional and remote communities, while promoting community safety.

23

Build and strengthen trauma responses tailored to older people across multiple settings and contexts, including strengthening recognition and response to elder abuse.

24

Enhance early intervention and tailored supports for individuals who work in professions that commonly respond to traumatic incidences, such as first responders and frontline staff.

25

Expand access to specialist alcohol and other drug treatment and harm reduction services, including for pregnant women, non-birthing partners and people with young infants.

26

Ensure disaster management frameworks are trauma-informed and promote person-led trauma responses across the life course.

Enhance services and supports

The experience of trauma is highly individual, as is the path towards healing, and it is important that people have agency in this process. It is also important to ensure that appropriate support is available as soon as possible within peoples’ community of choice.

27

Increase the availability and ease of access to services and supports for people following exposure to trauma or adversity.

28

Integrate consideration of adverse childhood experiences into all relevant supports and
interventions to address potential long-term impacts as early as possible.

29

Explore opportunities to expand support services for people who have experienced historical trauma, including historical experiences of domestic and family violence and sexual violence, to ensure appropriate support is available beyond the point of crisis.