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Trauma Responsive Manchester News Letter December 2024.
This newsletter highlights some of the work and events that have been happening in Manchester. In this newsletter is:
- Trauma and Gambling Harms: Public Health are working with Gambling with Lives and the GMCA to develop a Trauma Toolkit for practitioners.
- Theraputic Approaches Through Youth Sport: Led by Street Games , a national a day to bring networks together from Sport, Youth work, Youth Social Prescribing & Mental Health. It focused on building on and further embedding trauma informed and responsive approaches via guest speakers, workshops, best practice, connectivity and space for reflection.
- Manchester Art Gallery’s Families of the World project creates space for families with under 5’s seeking sanctuary in Manchester.
- On 2nd July MADE's Health and Wellbeing group hosted an event to celebrate the work of school students and creative providers across the city.
- Unicef Friendly City: UNICEF UK’s Child Friendly Cities programme works with councils to put children’s rights into practice.
Along with these updates is a link to an interesting article outline some strategies that teachers can use to help students explore joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust. In addition to open acess training for professionals about ACEs.
Read the Newsletter here.

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.