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Manchester City Council's Adults Social Care and Rough Sleepers Team Produce New Resources.

In the latter part of 2024 Manchester City Council's Adult Social Care service developed resources to support practitioners, and others, to respond through a trauma infofrmed lens.
One of these resources came out of work completed with Adult Social Care as part of the Better Outcomes Better Lives transformation programme. Working with colleagues in Adult Social Care a one-page aide memoire for practitioners to support them in their work.
Additionally, Ellie Atkins, Manager & Safeguarding Lead for the Rough Sleepers Social Work Team at MCC, has produced a three part vidoe series regarding truama and rough sleeping.
- Part 1: What you need to know to end rough sleeping.
- Part 2: Why you need to know about executive functioning.
- Part 3: What we need to do to end rough sleeping.

The animation is an introduction to trauma and recovery and has been developed to support educational professionals in understanding and supporting students who have been affected by trauma. This freely available resource, aimed at those working in education, helps open up discussion about trauma with young people. A result of efforts working with clinician, teachers and young people this resource was helped through the The We Love Manchester Emergency Fund (WLMEF). You can read more about this and access the video and printed resources here .

Seven organisations have used grant funding to make a real difference to Greater Manchester’s trauma responsive capabilities.
The Greater Manchester Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Trauma Responsive Communities grants (GM TRC grants) were launched in July 2022 to support and develop partnerships, resilience and trauma and ACE-responsive VCSE provision. Funding was earmarked for extra grants to successful projects which bid in round one.