The Practice Levels

The Community Summary of the Trauma-informed Wales Framework uses case studies for each practice level to help people in Wales understand that everyone has a role to play in making sure our society becomes trauma-informed.

The Trauma-Informed Wales Framework provides a Wales definition of a trauma informed approach, five principles and four practice levels to help all individuals, communities, organisations and systems in Welsh society to understand behaviour as communication, recognise and understand the impact of cultural, gender and historic inequalities, and social injustice and their link with experiences of trauma.

In Wales, everyone has a role to play in making sure our society becomes trauma-informed, and could benefit from understanding trauma and adversity. However, some people may need additional support depending on who they are. The four practice levels sets this out, each person should fit into one or more of the levels.

Together, these four practice levels provide an integrated, Trauma-Informed Practice Framework that
provides a coherent and joined-up way of working within organisations, systems and the community.