Our Vision
Greater Manchester is on the journey to become an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) aware and trauma-responsive system.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and GM Reform Board, VRU and ICB aim to promote a shared understanding of the concept of trauma-responsive care.
Building upon the widespread work of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and people with lived experience in the field.
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The ACE & Trauma Responsive Framework supports Greater Manchester to become a place where people feel safe, understood and able to thrive.
The Framework invites everyone to get involved, learn, collaborate and help shape a trauma‑responsive Greater Manchester where understanding adversity and responding with compassion becomes part of everyday practice.
Our Principles
Safety
By increasing awareness and understanding ACEs, trauma and their impact, and, cultural competence we can create safe interactions and nurture safe and healing relationships.
Trust
We trust that individuals are the experts on their experience and we support in ways that provide choice, open opportunities for control, and promote autonomy.
Collaboration
Through our efforts we promote individual choice and control, we share power and governance.
Empowerment
Integrating care into all our interactions and efforts we acknowledge that healing and recovery is possible.
Our Approach
For trauma and childhood adversity, we will adopt and adapt the WHO definition of a public health approach to violence prevention:
- Define the problem through systematic collection of information about the magnitude, scope, characteristics and consequences of ACEs and trauma and acknowledge that trauma and ACEs exist.
- Establish why ACEs and trauma occur using research to determine the causes and correlates of
- ACEs and trauma, the factors that increase or decrease the risk for such adversity, and the factors that could be modified through interventions.
- Find out what works across Greater Manchester to prevent ACEs and trauma by designing, implementing and evaluating interventions.
- Implement effective and promising interventions in a wide range of settings. The effects of these interventions on risk factors and the target outcome should be monitored, and their impact and cost-effectiveness should be evaluated.
Our Principles
Safety
By increasing awareness and understanding ACEs, trauma and their impact, and, cultural competence we can create safe interactions and nurture safe and healing relationships.
Trust
We trust that individuals are the experts on their experience and we support in ways that provide choice, open opportunities for control, and promote autonomy.
Collaboration
Through our efforts we promote individual choice and control, we share power and governance.
Empowerment
Integrating care into all our interactions and efforts we acknowledge that healing and recovery is possible.
Our Objectives
To nurture learning and development, together, in order to develop community led responses with strategic support.
Evidence Informed Innovation
Understanding what works in practice through mapping and understand the system, and review best practice.
Service User Involvement
Create a social movement across Greater Manchester to engage communities in understanding and co-production of trauma responsive systems.
Our Progress
Evaluation of the ACES & Trauma Responsive Greater
Manchester Programme. Final Report: Phase 1
The Public Health Institute (PHI), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) was commissioned to undertake a whole systems evaluation to explore and evidence the implementation and impact of phase 1 of the ACES & Trauma Responsive GM Programme (June 2022-December 2023).
The mixed methods evaluation utilises a whole systems approach to evaluation and incorporates three distinct work packages:
- Formative evaluation
- Summative evaluation
- Development of a system focused outcomes framework.
This report details the key findings from the evaluation of the ACES & Trauma
Responsive GM Programme.
