Both youth work and trauma-informed practice approaches require the practitioner to understand existing and historical trauma, and to recognize how these experiences may impact and influence a young person’s wellbeing and development. The core values of youth work and trauma-informed practice align and overlap in a variety of ways, and can ensure that services are empathic and empowering, recognizing that this work is always relational.

This factsheet was developed from Trauma Informed Practice: A Solution to Some of the Problems of Targeted Youth Work (2022) by Emma Bainborough and Jon Ord in Youth & Policy.