Time to Think Together: Cultivating a Joined-up Trauma-Informed Partnership

In Leeds, we want children and families to experience our complex system of support as joined-up in how it understands and responds to the impact of developmental trauma. The Compassionate Leeds team has established a range of mechanisms that are cultivating a shared understanding and shared approach to responding to the needs of children and young people, informed by the ARC framework. This co-ordinated, sequenced response also makes the most effective use of available support.
Time to think together is fundamental to our approach. All our work is designed to make sense to colleagues from all agencies, to promote shared language and collaborative ways of working. We will describe our layered programme of development spaces, the culture of campfire story-telling in our thriving community of practice, how our determined network of Compassionate Leeds Champions are embedding the ARC framework across Leeds and what our formulation-driven Thinking Together and Rethink spaces offer to multi-agency networks supporting individual young people as they overcome the impact of developmental trauma.