Pleasure to hear Baroness, Longfield, Baroness Lister, @jessasatomp.bsky.social and @tomhayesmp.bsky.social talking about the right to play at the launch of the @alliance4children.bsky.social report, Power to Play in the House of Lords today. Play is a crucial part of recovery from Childhood Trauma.

Love sharing my trauma cards with practitioners and showing creative and versatile ways of infusing them into practice. I also have an online module around some of these ideas- safehandsthinkingminds.thinkific.com/courses/trau...

Excellent evidence-based resources to support mental health professionals in their work with trauma-exposed children and young people courtesy of Prof Rachel Hiller et al. at UCL

www.childtraumaresources.com

Our Media & Knowledge Exchange subgroup met last night and sparked plans for a new podcast on recovery from childhood trauma. We will be welcoming academics, clinicians, and those with lived experience to join the conversation. Watch this space! #traumarecovery #childhoodtrauma

Great to see that our @irctrauma.bsky.social Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma written evidence is now included on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill publications page.

Particularly pleased to be launching our Recovery from Childhood Trauma Special Interest Group in association with @irctrauma.bsky.social

Exciting times!

#CompassionEdRevolution

Promote increased awareness and understanding of the impact of complex childhood trauma and the implications for children's services.

We think our aims are really important!

See here for more information

www.parallelparliament.co.uk/APPG/childho...

All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country.

The Childhood Trauma APPG aims to...

We are actively seeking Conservative MPs to join us in re-establishing the Childhood Trauma APPG.

We’d be grateful if you could share this appeal with your networks.

#childhoodtrauma
#traumarecovery

If you are interested in learning more about our work, are keen to collaborate or would like to volunteer to support our work please visit our website to get in contact:

irct.org.uk

We are keen to promote postgraduate research opportunities.

We are currently looking for a new Patron - A member of the House of Lords.

Our new Media and Knowledge Exchange sub-group provided our first update.

We met a future Trustee (very exciting).

We discussed our new Centre for Recovery from Childhood Trauma.

We explored current and potential research collaborations.

Another engaging and productive Board meeting @irctrauma.bsky.social

Trustee's shared updates on membership, lobbying, APPG and DfE work, our responses to various calls for evidence, recent collaborations and alliances, future events and conferences including our Best Practice Forums.

Trauma shapes the brain, but so does recovery. With the right support, safety & connection, the nervous system can heal, regulation can be learned, triggers can lose intensity& connection can create new patterns of safety. Healing happens in relationships, in self-compassion & in small steps forward

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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Great meeting with IRCT Trustees this afternoon planning the development of our newly established Centre for Recovery from Childhood Trauma.

Our Media & Knowledge Exchange group have lots of exciting ideas!Supported by one of our volunteers.

Keen to collaborate? See:

irct.org.uk/centre-for-r...

We’ve finally made it to BlueSky.
Our mission is to ensure that the right to recovery from childhood trauma is established and is available for all children, that resilience is developed and cycles of abuse and neglect are broken. We’d love to connect with others working in this field.