Webinar explores trauma‑informed approaches to abortion care
Health professionals across the Murrumbidgee are invited to attend an upcoming webinar by Family Planning Australia focused on strengthening trauma‑informed approaches in abortion care.
Choice, Voice and Control will explore how trauma‑informed care can improve the way individuals accessing abortion services are supported, ensuring care is respectful, empowering and centred on patient choice.
The session will unpack the core principles of trauma‑informed care, including the role of intersectionality in practice, and examine common barriers to implementing trauma‑informed approaches in clinical settings. Participants will also hear targeted considerations for responding to intimate partner violence, sexual assault and reproductive coercion within reproductive healthcare contexts.
Designed for clinicians working in primary care and related settings, the webinar provides an opportunity to reflect on everyday practice and consider practical ways to embed trauma‑informed principles into patient interactions.
By fostering greater awareness and understanding, the session aims to support clinicians to deliver care that recognises the prevalence and impact of trauma, avoids re‑traumatisation, and promotes safety, trust and collaboration.
Register now for your preferred date:
Health professionals can register using the links below:
About the speaker:
Lara Goulding is the Social Worker with the SEARCH project at FPA, a NSW Ministry of Health funded pilot improving access to reproductive health choices in rural, regional and remote NSW.
Lara has more than 15 years’ experience supporting women across sexual, reproductive and general care.
Her passion is to empower, enable and engage clients to work through life’s challenges by engaging and connecting to the human behind the story, to provide a client-led safe and empathetic service to individuals.
Fully funded by NSW Health as part of the SEARCH Project.
Further information:
Please note this is not an MPHN event. If you have any questions, please contact searchproject@fpnsw.org.au