Safety: Ensuring staff and clients feel psychologically and physically safe
Transparency and Trustworthiness: Decisions are made with transparency, to build trust between clients, family members and staff
Peer support: Individuals with lived experiences of trauma utilize their experience and story to support with recovery
Collaboration: There is a meaningful sharing of decision making and power between clients and staff
Empowerment, Voice and Choice: There is recognition of an individual’s strengths and their ability to heal. There is a focus on empowering the individual, and they are supported in decision-making and goal-setting for themselves.
Below is a video that dives further into the principles of trauma-informed care and describes how they may be applied in practice.