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I was really very moved and felt many conflicting emotions yesterday as I spent my first full working day at our new medium secure hospital, Rowan View. The level of attention, consideration and compassion that has gone into the design of this building in order to provide...
...dignified, safe, compassionate and collaborative care, whilst also reducing risk is incredible. There are many complex challenges in providing truly trauma informed services for those within a powerful Criminal Justice System, arguments & considerations around true consent...
...are paramount and often difficult and it is so easy to re-enact abusive experiences inadvertently. However, seeing some of our female clients yesterday, knowing their histories, some of whom have entrusted me with their past trauma, some of which remains too horrifying to...
....speak, and who are equally impacted on by their own offending, look relaxed, peaceful, secure and connected, showing me their new secure base, was truly humbling. These are the very basics of what secure care should look like, and an offending history should not nullify....
...the need for privacy, dignity and environmental and relational warmth, particularly when so many of our clients will have experienced such a deficit of this. And yet we know that so often this has not been the case. And that these women were so pleased with these new....
...surroundings, in itself, feels bittersweet - this should not the place they call home and refer to as a place of safety. And yet, for many, many reasons, here we are. This environment in itself is not a panacea, it is only one part of a trauma informed system. Without...
...those other crucial pillars and compassionate understanding and intervention, the positive effect will not be long lasting and those difficult feelings will return. And yet, I feel we took a step forward. We have some hope. @Mersey_Care you did a great thing here. Let's.....
...hold in mind the true purpose of this building and what it represents, not get too self-congratulatory about a shiny new building, and let us really, really affect change in how we work with a client group so in need of healing 
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