Individuals who undergo abortion are up to three times more likely to have experienced prior traumatic events compared with the general reproductive age population, including sexual assault, interpersonal violence, or adverse childhood events.
Trauma-informed care is a service framework built on recognising how past trauma shapes an individual’s life, influences their specific needs, and dictates how they interact with support systems.
This webinar will explore how the provision of trauma informed care can change how individuals accessing abortion care are given choice, voice and control in reproductive care.
Topics covered include:
core principles of trauma informed care, intersectionality in practice
barriers to trauma informed care
targeted considerations of clinical responses to intimate partner violence, sexual assault and reproductive coercion
Do you have any questions you’d like answered about this topic? Please contact us via searchproject@fpnsw.org.au
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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.