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Trauma Informed Schools Wales

Trauma Informed Schools (TISUK&TISWales) aims to deliver high quality training which enables practitioners to create safe, supportive environments in schools, communities, and other organisations. The ultimate focus is on empowering children and young people to overcome challenges, build true resilience, and develop positive life stories, with positive mental well-being thus creating compassionate communities.

We sit within the wider organisation of Trauma Informed Schools UK. We started delivering training in Wales in 2018 with a small group of school based colleagues. 5 years on, we have practitioners changing children and young people's lives in every county of Wales. We provide training to Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Social Workers, Foster Carers, Health Workers, CAMHS workers, Senior Leaders, Local Authority Officers, Education Welfare Officers, Educational Psychologists and many more.

TISUK aims to deliver high quality training which enables practitioners to create safe, supportive environments in schools, communities, and other organisations, with a focus on helping children and young people who may have/are going through a trauma. Trauma Informed Schools Wales are a team with a diverse range of backgrounds and a collective passion for ensuring change, for children and young people.

Trauma is a life event that no one ever helped you make sense of. Our brains adapt accordingly which creates problems with the adaptation in everyday life for body, mind and brain. By providing children and young people with daily support from emotionally available adults, intervening early to spot and address difficulties, promoting respectful relationships, fostering calm and safe spaces, valuing each child, adjusting expectations, and enhancing communication skills, we aim to build an army of kind and compassionate practitioners.

The ultimate goal is to empower children and young people to overcome challenges, build true resilience, and develop positive life stories, with positive mental well-being thereby creating compassionate communities.

https://traumainformedschools.wales/?lang=en

Service children’s quotes

"As soon as we get used to a house, you get moved - I’ve been to four schools and moved six times."

Aiden

"I lived in Nepal, then we went to Brunei, then Malaysia."

Ashim

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Chloe

"I’m used to moving now and mixing with the children... I’ve done it so many times, it’s just a normal thing now."

Chloe

"It's ok talking over skype and that, but sometimes you just want a hug when Dad is away."

Georgia

"I’ve enjoyed going around to lots of places around the world, it's adventurous and exciting."

Harry

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Ieuan

"My mum got a chalk board and it says how many sleeps on it with chalk, every minute it’s getting closer for him coming home."

Mia

"I don’t want him to get promoted... I want him to get promoted but I don’t want to leave."

Oliver

"I might be going to boarding school so that I don’t change schools every few years."

Ryan

"I've been to seven different schools; I’ve not stayed put in one school long enough."

Shana

"He has been away for six months and he is back for two weeks, then he goes away again."

Sianed

"My parents were in the Army. My mum is a like a nurse and my dad went to the war in Afghanistan. I actually didn’t really know what he was doing so I was like, ‘Cool Dad, go there,’ but then I found out and thought, 'Thank God he came back alive.'"

Sanjog

"He signed off last week, so he will be done by the end of this year. He’s done 24 years. I find that better because he will be around a lot. He likes watching us playing rugby, so he will get to see us more."

Lewis

"I’m going to a new place entirely. They don’t know anything about me and that’s a big restart and that’s really good for me."

Piaras

"I moved to Wales because my dad was posted in the Army. I thought I would get bullied and I was shy when you meet new people, but I made some friends."

Dan