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Enhancing Trauma-Informed Practice: A Hospital in the Home Project

Enhancing trauma-informed practice in The Statewide Women’s Mental Health Service Hospital in the Home Program

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About this project

In collaboration with Transforming Trauma Victoria and the Women’s Recovery Network, this project is developing and testing trauma-informed practice tools for use within a Hospital in the Home (HiTH) program. HiTH models of care provide acute mental health support within a consumer’s home, often reducing the length of stay in hospital or replacing the need for a hospital admission. This project focuses on a program for women experiencing complex and ongoing mental health challenges which are often related to, or exacerbated by, experiences of trauma, violence and/or structural disadvantage. The pilot phase includes HiTH programs in one regional area and one metropolitan area. The research project will identify lessons from the two local sites that could be embedded into other areas.

How will this project help me?

 

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  • Through supporting the services which I receive to be more trauma informed, and violence informed.
  • By seeing the services that support me equipped to respond to the structural trauma I am impacted by, through a trauma-and violence-informed model

Translational research questions

What are the barriers and enablers to implementing trauma-informed tools within a HiTH program?

How are consumers, families, carers, supporters and kin best engaged in the implementation process?

What implementation strategies and practice tools are most effective for promoting trauma-informed practice and culture in HiTH programs?

What factors influence the use of practice tools and implementation strategies? 

What are the opportunities for embedding trauma-informed practice tools and implementation strategies across different HiTH program teams and sites?